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Gravity Forms vs Dropbox Sign

Developer ecosystem comparison across GitHub activity, SDKs, documentation, community, reach and momentum.

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

Dropbox Sign (rank #430) holds a narrow lead over Gravity Forms (rank #662) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (40 vs 32). The gap of 8 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Gravity Forms carries 112 GitHub stars across 8 public repos, with 2 repositories active in the last 90 days and 1 external contributors on record. Dropbox Sign shows 434 stars across 36 public repos, 9 active in the last 90 days and 3 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Dropbox Sign's footprint is roughly 3.9x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Gravity Forms is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. Dropbox Sign looks better where code quality 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.

Side-by-side metrics

MetricGravity FormsDropbox Sign
Ranking
Overall rank#662#430
Pillars
Overall3240
Code2161
Education7875
Community1220
Reach2931
Momentum4019
Builder experience00
Signals
Stars112434
Forks66326
Public repos836
Active repos (90d)29
External contributors13
Avg polish2459
Avg AI-readiness847

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