Formbricks vs Wistia

Formbricks (Open Source Qualtrics Alternative) and Wistia (One place for all your team’s video-ing) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Formbricks (rank #237) holds a narrow lead over Wistia (rank #278) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (48 vs 46). The gap of 2 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 Wistia. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Wistia is ahead of Formbricks. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Formbricks is clearly ahead of Wistia. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Wistia is slightly ahead of Formbricks. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Wistia is 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. Wistia shows 680 stars across 173 public repos, 23 active in the last 90 days and 2 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Formbricks's footprint is roughly 18.6x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

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