Excalidraw vs UserTesting

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

Excalidraw (rank #102) holds a meaningful lead over UserTesting (rank #692) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (55 vs 31). The gap of 24 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 UserTesting. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Excalidraw is slightly ahead of UserTesting. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Excalidraw is clearly ahead of UserTesting. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Excalidraw is ahead of UserTesting. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Excalidraw is slightly ahead of UserTesting.

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. UserTesting shows 15 stars across 119 public repos, 0 active in the last 90 days and 0 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Excalidraw's footprint is roughly 9116.3x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Excalidraw is the stronger read for anyone weighting community. UserTesting makes more sense for teams already using its adjacent tools. The table below breaks the scores down pillar by pillar; the linked profiles cover the underlying repos, docs and community signals in full.