Glide vs Gravity Forms

Glide (Build custom business software powered by your data and loved by your team - without code.) and Gravity Forms (The most powerful form and workflow solution available for WordPress.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Glide (rank #152) holds a modest lead over Gravity Forms (rank #662) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (52 vs 32). The gap of 20 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Glide carries 21,382 GitHub stars across 67 public repos, with 11 repositories active in the last 90 days and 7 external contributors on record. Gravity Forms shows 112 stars across 8 public repos, 2 active in the last 90 days and 1 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Glide's footprint is roughly 190.9x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Glide is the stronger read for anyone weighting community. Gravity Forms looks better where momentum 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.