Glide vs Smartsheet

Glide (Build custom business software powered by your data and loved by your team - without code.) and Smartsheet (Opensource SDKs for the Smartsheet collaborative work management platform) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Glide (rank #152) holds a modest lead over Smartsheet (rank #338) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (52 vs 43). The gap of 9 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Glide is ahead of Smartsheet. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Smartsheet is ahead of Glide. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Glide is slightly ahead of Smartsheet. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Glide is slightly ahead of Smartsheet. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Smartsheet 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. Smartsheet shows 150 stars across 11 public repos, 8 active in the last 90 days and 15 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Glide's footprint is roughly 142.5x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Glide is the stronger read for anyone weighting code quality. Smartsheet 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.