Gravity Forms vs IFTTT

Gravity Forms (The most powerful form and workflow solution available for WordPress.) and IFTTT (Automations for business and home. 1,000+ of your favorite apps, services and devices. Save time and get more done.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

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

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. IFTTT shows 15,307 stars across 75 public repos, 1 active in the last 90 days and 2 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but IFTTT's footprint is roughly 136.7x 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. IFTTT 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.