Gravity Forms vs Rippling

Gravity Forms (The most powerful form and workflow solution available for WordPress.) and Rippling (We make it unbelievably easy to manage your team's payroll, benefits, computers, and apps.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Rippling (rank #455) holds a narrow lead over Gravity Forms (rank #662) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (39 vs 32). The gap of 7 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

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. Rippling shows 156 stars across 11 public repos, 1 active in the last 90 days and 11 external contributors.

Gravity Forms is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. Rippling looks better where reach 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.