Excalidraw vs Proton Mail

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

Excalidraw (rank #103) holds a modest lead over Proton Mail (rank #401) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (55 vs 41). The gap of 14 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Proton Mail is slightly ahead of Excalidraw. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Excalidraw is clearly ahead of Proton Mail. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Excalidraw is slightly ahead of Proton Mail. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Excalidraw is slightly ahead of Proton Mail. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Proton Mail 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. Proton Mail shows 16,265 stars across 186 public repos, 19 active in the last 90 days and 20 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Excalidraw's footprint is roughly 8.4x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Excalidraw is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. Proton Mail 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.