ForestAdmin vs Kanboard

ForestAdmin (Forest Admin provides an off-the-shelf admin panel based on a highly-extensible API plugged into your application.) and Kanboard (Kanban project management software) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

ForestAdmin (rank #165) holds a modest lead over Kanboard (rank #625) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (51 vs 33). The gap of 18 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 Kanboard. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), ForestAdmin is ahead of Kanboard. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Kanboard is clearly ahead of ForestAdmin. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), ForestAdmin is clearly ahead of Kanboard. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), ForestAdmin is slightly ahead of Kanboard.

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. Kanboard shows 10,486 stars across 52 public repos, 4 active in the last 90 days and 13 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Kanboard's footprint is roughly 3.1x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

ForestAdmin is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Kanboard looks better where community 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.