Heap vs Kanboard

Heap (Product Insights) and Kanboard (Kanban project management software) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Heap (rank #567) holds a narrow lead over Kanboard (rank #625) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (35 vs 33). The gap of 2 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Heap carries 215 GitHub stars across 65 public repos, with 6 repositories active in the last 90 days and 0 external contributors on record. Kanboard shows 10,509 stars across 52 public repos, 4 active in the last 90 days and 15 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Kanboard's footprint is roughly 48.9x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Heap is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Kanboard 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.