Excalidraw vs Mailchimp

Excalidraw (Excalidraw is a whiteboard tool that lets you easily sketch diagrams that have a hand-drawn feel to them.) and Mailchimp (Mailchimp is an all-in-one marketing platform that helps you manage and talk to your clients, customers, and other interested parties.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Excalidraw (rank #103) holds a modest lead over Mailchimp (rank #317) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (55 vs 44). The gap of 11 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Excalidraw is slightly ahead of Mailchimp. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Excalidraw is clearly ahead of Mailchimp. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Excalidraw is ahead of Mailchimp. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Mailchimp is slightly ahead of Excalidraw. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Mailchimp is slightly 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. Mailchimp shows 8,980 stars across 28 public repos, 6 active in the last 90 days and 6 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Excalidraw's footprint is roughly 15.2x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Excalidraw is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. Mailchimp 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.