Gravity Forms vs Sprout Social

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

Sprout Social (rank #401) holds a modest lead over Gravity Forms (rank #662) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (41 vs 32). The gap of 9 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Sprout Social is clearly ahead of Gravity Forms. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Gravity Forms is clearly ahead of Sprout Social. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Sprout Social is slightly ahead of Gravity Forms. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Sprout Social is ahead of Gravity Forms. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Sprout Social is 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. Sprout Social shows 313 stars across 68 public repos, 4 active in the last 90 days and 3 external contributors.

Gravity Forms is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. Sprout Social 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.