Gravity Forms vs OpenCart

Gravity Forms (The most powerful form and workflow solution available for WordPress.) and OpenCart (PHP based open source ecommerce platform) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

OpenCart (rank #401) holds a modest lead over Gravity Forms (rank #662) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (41 vs 32). The gap of 9 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

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. OpenCart shows 8,157 stars across 2 public repos, 1 active in the last 90 days and 26 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but OpenCart's footprint is roughly 72.8x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

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