Gravity Forms vs Slab

Gravity Forms (The most powerful form and workflow solution available for WordPress.) and Slab (Making the workplace a source of learning and purpose through knowledge-sharing. We're hiring!) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

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

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. Slab shows 49,433 stars across 28 public repos, 0 active in the last 90 days and 8 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Slab's footprint is roughly 441.4x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Gravity Forms is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. Slab 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.