Gravity Forms vs Linear

Gravity Forms (The most powerful form and workflow solution available for WordPress.) and Linear (A purpose-built tool for planning and building products) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Linear (rank #103) holds a meaningful lead over Gravity Forms (rank #662) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (55 vs 32). The gap of 23 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Linear is clearly ahead of Gravity Forms. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Gravity Forms is clearly ahead of Linear. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Linear is clearly ahead of Gravity Forms. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Linear is clearly ahead of Gravity Forms. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Linear 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. Linear shows 1,971 stars across 22 public repos, 5 active in the last 90 days and 21 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Linear's footprint is roughly 17.6x 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. Linear 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.