Gravity Forms vs Starling Bank

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

Starling Bank (rank #625) holds a narrow lead over Gravity Forms (rank #668) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (33 vs 32). The gap of 1 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Starling Bank is clearly ahead of Gravity Forms. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Gravity Forms is clearly ahead of Starling Bank. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Gravity Forms is slightly ahead of Starling Bank. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Starling Bank is clearly ahead of Gravity Forms. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Starling Bank 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. Starling Bank shows 195 stars across 3 public repos, 3 active in the last 90 days and 0 external contributors.

Gravity Forms is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. Starling Bank 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.