Frappe vs Woo

Frappe (We build world class open-source software products.) and Woo (The company behind WooCommerce, the open-source commerce platform for WordPress.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Woo (rank #103) holds a narrow lead over Frappe (rank #141) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (55 vs 53). 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), Frappe is slightly ahead of Woo. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Frappe is clearly ahead of Woo. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Frappe is slightly ahead of Woo. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Woo is ahead of Frappe. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Frappe is slightly ahead of Woo.

Frappe carries 107,553 GitHub stars across 207 public repos, with 62 repositories active in the last 90 days and 174 external contributors on record. Woo shows 23,045 stars across 247 public repos, 47 active in the last 90 days and 100 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Frappe's footprint is roughly 4.7x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Frappe is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. Woo 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.