Formbricks vs Recruitee

Formbricks (Open Source Qualtrics Alternative) and Recruitee both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Formbricks (rank #237) holds a modest lead over Recruitee (rank #602) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (48 vs 34). The gap of 14 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Formbricks carries 12,675 GitHub stars across 18 public repos, with 9 repositories active in the last 90 days and 6 external contributors on record. Recruitee shows 411 stars across 56 public repos, 0 active in the last 90 days and 0 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Formbricks's footprint is roughly 30.8x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Formbricks is the stronger read for anyone weighting community. Recruitee looks better where education 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.