Formspark vs Gravity Forms

Formspark and Gravity Forms (The most powerful form and workflow solution available for WordPress.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Formspark (rank #372) holds a modest lead over Gravity Forms (rank #662) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (42 vs 32). The gap of 10 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Formspark carries 67 GitHub stars across 8 public repos, with 8 repositories active in the last 90 days and 2 external contributors on record. Gravity Forms shows 112 stars across 8 public repos, 2 active in the last 90 days and 1 external contributors.

Formspark is the stronger read for anyone weighting code quality. Gravity Forms 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.