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Excalidraw vs Smoower - Mindshare index and developer tools

Developer ecosystem comparison across GitHub activity, SDKs, documentation, community, reach and momentum.

Excalidraw (Excalidraw is a whiteboard tool that lets you easily sketch diagrams that have a hand-drawn feel to them.) and Smoower - Mindshare index and developer tools (Making DevRel efforts compare and measurable) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Excalidraw (rank #103) holds a modest lead over Smoower - Mindshare index and developer tools (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), Excalidraw is ahead of Smoower - Mindshare index and developer tools. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Excalidraw is clearly ahead of Smoower - Mindshare index and developer tools. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Excalidraw is clearly ahead of Smoower - Mindshare index and developer tools. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Excalidraw is slightly ahead of Smoower - Mindshare index and developer tools. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Smoower - Mindshare index and developer tools 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. Smoower - Mindshare index and developer tools shows 1 stars across 4 public repos, 4 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 136744.0x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Excalidraw is the stronger read for anyone weighting community. Smoower - Mindshare index and developer tools 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.

Side-by-side metrics

MetricExcalidrawSmoower - Mindshare index and developer tools
Ranking
Overall rank#103#401
Pillars
Overall5541
Code5942
Education6846
Community5220
Reach4544
Momentum648
Builder experience00
Signals
Stars136,7441
Forks15,9370
Public repos254
Active repos (90d)34
External contributors2151
Avg polish5651
Avg AI-readiness3728

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