Formbricks vs ShipBob

Formbricks (Open Source Qualtrics Alternative) and ShipBob (Need to ship? ShipBob-it! You save save time and money.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Formbricks (rank #237) holds a modest lead over ShipBob (rank #693) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (48 vs 31). The gap of 17 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 ShipBob. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Formbricks is slightly ahead of ShipBob. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Formbricks is clearly ahead of ShipBob. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Formbricks is slightly ahead of ShipBob. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Formbricks is clearly ahead of ShipBob.

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. ShipBob shows 0 stars across 2 public repos, 0 active in the last 90 days and 0 external contributors.

Formbricks is the stronger read for anyone weighting community. ShipBob makes more sense for teams already using its adjacent tools. The table below breaks the scores down pillar by pillar; the linked profiles cover the underlying repos, docs and community signals in full.