Formbricks vs Rippling

Formbricks (Open Source Qualtrics Alternative) and Rippling (We make it unbelievably easy to manage your team's payroll, benefits, computers, and apps.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Formbricks (rank #237) holds a modest lead over Rippling (rank #455) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (48 vs 39). The gap of 9 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

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. Rippling shows 156 stars across 11 public repos, 1 active in the last 90 days and 11 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Formbricks's footprint is roughly 81.3x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Formbricks is the stronger read for anyone weighting community. Rippling 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.