Excalidraw vs Pirsch Analytics

Excalidraw (Excalidraw is a whiteboard tool that lets you easily sketch diagrams that have a hand-drawn feel to them.) and Pirsch Analytics (Pirsch is a simple, privacy-friendly, open-source alternative to Google Analytics - lightweight, cookie-free and easily integrated into any website. By @emvi.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Excalidraw (rank #103) holds a meaningful lead over Pirsch Analytics (rank #625) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (55 vs 33). The gap of 22 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 Pirsch Analytics. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Pirsch Analytics is slightly ahead of Excalidraw. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Excalidraw is ahead of Pirsch Analytics. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Excalidraw is ahead of Pirsch Analytics. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Pirsch Analytics 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. Pirsch Analytics shows 1,203 stars across 24 public repos, 5 active in the last 90 days and 1 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Excalidraw's footprint is roughly 113.7x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Excalidraw is the stronger read for anyone weighting community. Pirsch Analytics 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.