ForestAdmin vs Spreedly

ForestAdmin (Forest Admin provides an off-the-shelf admin panel based on a highly-extensible API plugged into your application.) and Spreedly (Simple and secure PCI compliance and payment forwarding.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

ForestAdmin (rank #165) holds a meaningful lead over Spreedly (rank #728) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (51 vs 30). The gap of 21 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 Spreedly. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), ForestAdmin is clearly ahead of Spreedly. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), ForestAdmin is ahead of Spreedly. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Spreedly is slightly ahead of ForestAdmin. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), ForestAdmin is slightly ahead of Spreedly.

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. Spreedly shows 418 stars across 67 public repos, 10 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 8.2x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

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