Excalidraw vs Orca Security

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

Excalidraw (rank #103) holds a modest lead over Orca Security (rank #569) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (55 vs 35). The gap of 20 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 Orca Security. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Excalidraw is ahead of Orca Security. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Excalidraw is ahead of Orca Security. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Excalidraw is clearly ahead of Orca Security. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Orca Security 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. Orca Security shows 230 stars across 35 public repos, 17 active in the last 90 days and 12 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Excalidraw's footprint is roughly 594.5x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Excalidraw is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Orca Security 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.