Fastmail vs Gravity Forms

Fastmail (Open-source software developed at Fastmail.) and Gravity Forms (The most powerful form and workflow solution available for WordPress.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

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

Fastmail carries 6,316 GitHub stars across 38 public repos, with 12 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. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Fastmail's footprint is roughly 56.4x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Fastmail is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. 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.