Excalidraw vs Metabase

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

Excalidraw (rank #103) holds a narrow lead over Metabase (rank #165) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (55 vs 51). The gap of 4 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Excalidraw is ahead of Metabase. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Metabase is ahead of Excalidraw. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Excalidraw is ahead of Metabase. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Excalidraw is slightly ahead of Metabase. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Metabase 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. Metabase shows 50,225 stars across 100 public repos, 21 active in the last 90 days and 49 external contributors.

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