ForestAdmin vs ownCloud - a Kiteworks Company

ForestAdmin (Forest Admin provides an off-the-shelf admin panel based on a highly-extensible API plugged into your application.) and ownCloud - a Kiteworks Company (Open, federated file sync & share. The original Enterprise File Sync and Share. AI-contributions welcome.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

ForestAdmin and ownCloud - a Kiteworks Company sit at essentially the same overall ecosystem score (51), which is unusual and worth reading through the pillars below.

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

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. ownCloud - a Kiteworks Company shows 18,930 stars across 178 public repos, 100 active in the last 90 days and 35 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but ownCloud - a Kiteworks Company's footprint is roughly 5.5x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

ForestAdmin is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. ownCloud - a Kiteworks Company looks better where momentum 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.