Gravity Forms vs MailerLite

Gravity Forms (The most powerful form and workflow solution available for WordPress.) and MailerLite (Digital marketing tools to grow your audience faster and drive revenue smarter.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

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

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. MailerLite shows 1,134 stars across 39 public repos, 25 active in the last 90 days and 3 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but MailerLite's footprint is roughly 10.1x 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. MailerLite 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.