Gravity Forms vs Remote

Gravity Forms (The most powerful form and workflow solution available for WordPress.) and Remote (Remote helps with international payroll, benefits, taxes, stock options, and compliance for businesses big and small!) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Remote (rank #278) holds a modest lead over Gravity Forms (rank #662) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (46 vs 32). The gap of 14 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Remote is clearly ahead of Gravity Forms. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Remote is slightly ahead of Gravity Forms. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Remote is clearly ahead of Gravity Forms. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Gravity Forms is ahead of Remote. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Remote 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. Remote shows 811 stars across 51 public repos, 17 active in the last 90 days and 21 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Remote's footprint is roughly 7.2x 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. Remote 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.