Front vs Gravity Forms

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

Front (rank #625) holds a narrow lead over Gravity Forms (rank #668) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (33 vs 32). The gap of 1 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Front carries 103 GitHub stars across 122 public repos, with 8 repositories active in the last 90 days and 3 external contributors on record. Gravity Forms shows 112 stars across 8 public repos, 2 active in the last 90 days and 1 external contributors.

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