ForestAdmin vs Vidyard

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

ForestAdmin (rank #165) holds a modest lead over Vidyard (rank #693) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (51 vs 31). The gap of 20 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 Vidyard. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), ForestAdmin is slightly ahead of Vidyard. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), ForestAdmin is ahead of Vidyard. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), ForestAdmin is clearly ahead of Vidyard. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Vidyard is slightly 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. Vidyard shows 20 stars across 29 public repos, 3 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 170.8x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

ForestAdmin is the stronger read for anyone weighting code quality. Vidyard 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.