Gravity Forms vs Instructure, Inc.

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

Instructure, Inc. (rank #317) holds a modest lead over Gravity Forms (rank #662) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (44 vs 32). The gap of 12 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

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. Instructure, Inc. shows 10,186 stars across 212 public repos, 37 active in the last 90 days and 29 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Instructure, Inc.'s footprint is roughly 90.9x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Gravity Forms is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. Instructure, Inc. 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.