Expel, Inc. vs Gravity Forms

Expel, Inc. and Gravity Forms (The most powerful form and workflow solution available for WordPress.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Expel, Inc. (rank #430) holds a narrow lead over Gravity Forms (rank #662) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (40 vs 32). The gap of 8 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Expel, Inc. is clearly ahead of Gravity Forms. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Gravity Forms is ahead of Expel, Inc.. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Expel, Inc. is ahead of Gravity Forms. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Gravity Forms is slightly ahead of Expel, Inc..

Expel, Inc. carries 73 GitHub stars across 28 public repos, with 3 repositories active in the last 90 days and 2 external contributors on record. Gravity Forms shows 112 stars across 8 public repos, 2 active in the last 90 days and 1 external contributors.

Expel, Inc. is the stronger read for anyone weighting code quality. Gravity Forms looks better where education 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.