ForestAdmin vs Heap

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

ForestAdmin (rank #165) holds a modest lead over Heap (rank #569) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (51 vs 35). 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), ForestAdmin is clearly ahead of Heap. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), ForestAdmin is slightly ahead of Heap. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), ForestAdmin is ahead of Heap. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), ForestAdmin is slightly ahead of Heap. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), ForestAdmin is ahead of Heap.

ForestAdmin carries 3,415 GitHub stars across 87 public repos, with 14 repositories active in the last 90 days and 9 external contributors on record. Heap shows 215 stars across 65 public repos, 6 active in the last 90 days and 1 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but ForestAdmin's footprint is roughly 15.9x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

ForestAdmin is the stronger read for anyone weighting code quality. Heap 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.