Factorial vs Gravity Forms

Factorial (HR Software for small and medium companies) and Gravity Forms (The most powerful form and workflow solution available for WordPress.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Factorial (rank #237) holds a modest lead over Gravity Forms (rank #662) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (48 vs 32). The gap of 16 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Factorial carries 117 GitHub stars across 70 public repos, with 19 repositories active in the last 90 days and 53 external contributors on record. Gravity Forms shows 112 stars across 8 public repos, 2 active in the last 90 days and 1 external contributors.

Factorial 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.