Excalidraw vs Narmi

Excalidraw (Excalidraw is a whiteboard tool that lets you easily sketch diagrams that have a hand-drawn feel to them.) and Narmi (Narmi modernizes financial institutions and the people they serve with digital-first banking solutions and an agile open platform.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Excalidraw (rank #102) holds a meaningful lead over Narmi (rank #727) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (55 vs 30). The gap of 25 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 Narmi. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Excalidraw is slightly ahead of Narmi. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Excalidraw is clearly ahead of Narmi. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Excalidraw is clearly ahead of Narmi. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Narmi is ahead of Excalidraw.

Excalidraw carries 137,403 GitHub stars across 25 public repos, with 3 repositories active in the last 90 days and 209 external contributors on record. Narmi shows 69 stars across 10 public repos, 3 active in the last 90 days and 7 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Excalidraw's footprint is roughly 1991.3x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Excalidraw is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Narmi 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.