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Excalidraw vs Sophos

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 Sophos both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Excalidraw (rank #103) holds a modest lead over Sophos (rank #510) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (55 vs 37). The gap of 18 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Excalidraw is clearly ahead of Sophos. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Excalidraw is ahead of Sophos. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Excalidraw is clearly ahead of Sophos. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Sophos 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. Sophos shows 1,438 stars across 84 public repos, 7 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 95.1x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Excalidraw is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Sophos 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

MetricExcalidrawSophos
Ranking
Overall rank#103#510
Pillars
Overall5537
Code5933
Education6868
Community5233
Reach4511
Momentum642
Builder experience00
Signals
Stars136,7441,438
Forks15,937432
Public repos2584
Active repos (90d)37
External contributors2152
Avg polish5641
Avg AI-readiness3722

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