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Formbricks vs Zeplin

Developer ecosystem comparison across GitHub activity, SDKs, documentation, community, reach and momentum.

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

Formbricks (rank #237) holds a narrow lead over Zeplin (rank #430) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (48 vs 40). The gap of 8 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 Zeplin. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Zeplin is ahead of Formbricks. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Formbricks is ahead of Zeplin. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Formbricks is ahead of Zeplin. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Formbricks is slightly ahead of Zeplin.

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. Zeplin shows 1,460 stars across 57 public repos, 8 active in the last 90 days and 4 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Formbricks's footprint is roughly 8.7x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

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

Side-by-side metrics

MetricFormbricksZeplin
Ranking
Overall rank#237#430
Pillars
Overall4840
Code5349
Education6777
Community4728
Reach3620
Momentum2416
Builder experience00
Signals
Stars12,6751,460
Forks2,459228
Public repos1857
Active repos (90d)98
External contributors64
Avg polish5754
Avg AI-readiness3726

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