Gravity Forms vs Mailchimp

Gravity Forms (The most powerful form and workflow solution available for WordPress.) and Mailchimp (Mailchimp is an all-in-one marketing platform that helps you manage and talk to your clients, customers, and other interested parties.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

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

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. Mailchimp shows 8,980 stars across 28 public repos, 6 active in the last 90 days and 6 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Mailchimp's footprint is roughly 80.2x 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. Mailchimp 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.