Excalidraw vs Smartsheet

Excalidraw (Excalidraw is a whiteboard tool that lets you easily sketch diagrams that have a hand-drawn feel to them.) and Smartsheet (Opensource SDKs for the Smartsheet collaborative work management platform) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Excalidraw (rank #103) holds a modest lead over Smartsheet (rank #338) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (55 vs 43). The gap of 12 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 Smartsheet. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Smartsheet is ahead of Excalidraw. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Excalidraw is ahead of Smartsheet. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Excalidraw is ahead of Smartsheet. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Smartsheet 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. Smartsheet shows 150 stars across 11 public repos, 8 active in the last 90 days and 15 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Excalidraw's footprint is roughly 911.6x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Excalidraw is the stronger read for anyone weighting code quality. Smartsheet 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.