Gravity Forms vs draw.io

Gravity Forms (The most powerful form and workflow solution available for WordPress.) and draw.io (draw.io specialises in browser-based diagramming components and applications.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

draw.io (rank #338) holds a modest lead over Gravity Forms (rank #662) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (43 vs 32). The gap of 11 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

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. draw.io shows 86,983 stars across 32 public repos, 12 active in the last 90 days and 13 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but draw.io's footprint is roughly 776.6x 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. draw.io looks better where community 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.