Expensify, Inc vs ForestAdmin

Expensify, Inc and ForestAdmin (Forest Admin provides an off-the-shelf admin panel based on a highly-extensible API plugged into your application.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Expensify, Inc and ForestAdmin sit at essentially the same overall ecosystem score (51), which is unusual and worth reading through the pillars below.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), ForestAdmin is ahead of Expensify, Inc. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), ForestAdmin is ahead of Expensify, Inc. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Expensify, Inc is ahead of ForestAdmin. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), ForestAdmin is ahead of Expensify, Inc. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Expensify, Inc is clearly ahead of ForestAdmin.

Expensify, Inc carries 9,942 GitHub stars across 66 public repos, with 18 repositories active in the last 90 days and 141 external contributors on record. ForestAdmin shows 3,415 stars across 87 public repos, 14 active in the last 90 days and 9 external contributors.

Expensify, Inc is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. ForestAdmin looks better where reach 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.