Gravity Forms vs Wistia

Gravity Forms (The most powerful form and workflow solution available for WordPress.) and Wistia (One place for all your team’s video-ing) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Wistia (rank #278) holds a modest lead over Gravity Forms (rank #662) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (46 vs 32). The gap of 14 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

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. Wistia shows 680 stars across 173 public repos, 23 active in the last 90 days and 2 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Wistia's footprint is roughly 6.1x 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. Wistia 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.