Gravity Forms vs Pendo

Gravity Forms (The most powerful form and workflow solution available for WordPress.) and Pendo both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Pendo (rank #485) holds a narrow lead over Gravity Forms (rank #666) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (38 vs 32). The gap of 6 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

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. Pendo shows 266 stars across 133 public repos, 18 active in the last 90 days and 6 external contributors.

Gravity Forms is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. Pendo 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.