Gravity Forms vs PayFit

Gravity Forms (The most powerful form and workflow solution available for WordPress.) and PayFit (Paying employees has never been easier) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

PayFit (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), PayFit is clearly ahead of Gravity Forms. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), PayFit is slightly ahead of Gravity Forms. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Gravity Forms is slightly ahead of PayFit. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Gravity Forms is ahead of PayFit. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), PayFit 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. PayFit shows 1 stars across 1 public repos, 1 active in the last 90 days and 0 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Gravity Forms's footprint is roughly 112.0x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Gravity Forms is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. PayFit 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.