Excalidraw vs pCloud Open Source

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

Excalidraw (rank #103) holds a meaningful lead over pCloud Open Source (rank #662) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (55 vs 32). The gap of 23 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 pCloud Open Source. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Excalidraw is slightly ahead of pCloud Open Source. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Excalidraw is clearly ahead of pCloud Open Source. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), pCloud Open Source is ahead of Excalidraw. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), pCloud Open Source 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. pCloud Open Source shows 867 stars across 16 public repos, 4 active in the last 90 days and 2 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Excalidraw's footprint is roughly 157.7x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Excalidraw is the stronger read for anyone weighting community. pCloud Open Source looks better where reach 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.