Excalidraw vs KAYAK

Excalidraw (Excalidraw is a whiteboard tool that lets you easily sketch diagrams that have a hand-drawn feel to them.) and KAYAK both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Excalidraw (rank #103) holds a modest lead over KAYAK (rank #485) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (55 vs 38). The gap of 17 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Excalidraw is ahead of KAYAK. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Excalidraw is clearly ahead of KAYAK. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Excalidraw is slightly ahead of KAYAK. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), KAYAK is clearly ahead of Excalidraw.

Excalidraw carries 136,744 GitHub stars across 25 public repos, with 3 repositories active in the last 90 days and 215 external contributors on record. KAYAK shows 3,186 stars across 72 public repos, 4 active in the last 90 days and 1 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Excalidraw's footprint is roughly 42.9x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Excalidraw is the stronger read for anyone weighting community. KAYAK looks better where momentum is the deciding factor. The table below breaks the scores down pillar by pillar; the linked profiles cover the underlying repos, docs and community signals in full.