ForestAdmin vs IFTTT

ForestAdmin (Forest Admin provides an off-the-shelf admin panel based on a highly-extensible API plugged into your application.) and IFTTT (Automations for business and home. 1,000+ of your favorite apps, services and devices. Save time and get more done.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

ForestAdmin (rank #165) holds a modest lead over IFTTT (rank #430) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (51 vs 40). The gap of 11 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

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. IFTTT shows 15,307 stars across 75 public repos, 1 active in the last 90 days and 2 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but IFTTT's footprint is roughly 4.5x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

ForestAdmin is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. IFTTT 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.