ForestAdmin vs Productboard

ForestAdmin (Forest Admin provides an off-the-shelf admin panel based on a highly-extensible API plugged into your application.) and Productboard (Make things that matter, together. See also @productboardlabs) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

ForestAdmin (rank #165) holds a modest lead over Productboard (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 clearly ahead of Productboard. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), ForestAdmin is clearly ahead of Productboard. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), ForestAdmin is ahead of Productboard. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), ForestAdmin is ahead of Productboard. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Productboard 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. Productboard shows 90 stars across 87 public repos, 8 active in the last 90 days and 2 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but ForestAdmin's footprint is roughly 37.9x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

ForestAdmin is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. Productboard 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.