Excalidraw vs Miro

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

Excalidraw (rank #103) holds a modest lead over Miro (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 code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Excalidraw is slightly ahead of Miro. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Miro is ahead of Excalidraw. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Excalidraw is ahead of Miro. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Excalidraw is clearly ahead of Miro. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Miro 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. Miro shows 843 stars across 45 public repos, 4 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 162.2x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Excalidraw is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Miro looks better where education 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.