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Excalidraw vs Malwarebytes

Developer ecosystem comparison across GitHub activity, SDKs, documentation, community, reach and momentum.

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

Excalidraw (rank #103) holds a modest lead over Malwarebytes (rank #536) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (55 vs 36). The gap of 19 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 Malwarebytes. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Malwarebytes is slightly ahead of Excalidraw. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Excalidraw is clearly ahead of Malwarebytes. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Excalidraw is ahead of Malwarebytes. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Malwarebytes 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. Malwarebytes shows 38 stars across 20 public repos, 4 active in the last 90 days and 3 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Excalidraw's footprint is roughly 3598.5x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Excalidraw is the stronger read for anyone weighting community. Malwarebytes 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.

Side-by-side metrics

MetricExcalidrawMalwarebytes
Ranking
Overall rank#103#536
Pillars
Overall5536
Code5954
Education6873
Community5223
Reach4534
Momentum666
Builder experience00
Signals
Stars136,74438
Forks15,9376
Public repos2520
Active repos (90d)34
External contributors2153
Avg polish5653
Avg AI-readiness3728

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