Gravity Forms vs Segment

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

Segment (rank #103) holds a meaningful lead over Gravity Forms (rank #662) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (55 vs 32). The gap of 23 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Segment is clearly ahead of Gravity Forms. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Gravity Forms is slightly ahead of Segment. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Segment is clearly ahead of Gravity Forms. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Segment is ahead of Gravity Forms. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Segment 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. Segment shows 58,406 stars across 421 public repos, 53 active in the last 90 days and 12 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Segment's footprint is roughly 521.5x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

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