Gravity Forms vs Meltwater

Gravity Forms (The most powerful form and workflow solution available for WordPress.) and Meltwater (We harness the world’s data in real time to unlock our customer’s competitive edge.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Meltwater (rank #625) holds a narrow lead over Gravity Forms (rank #668) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (33 vs 32). The gap of 1 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

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. Meltwater shows 196 stars across 22 public repos, 6 active in the last 90 days and 1 external contributors.

Gravity Forms is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. Meltwater 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.