Heap vs kununu

Heap (Product Insights) and kununu (Let's make work better.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Heap and kununu sit at essentially the same overall ecosystem score (35), which is unusual and worth reading through the pillars below.

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

Heap carries 215 GitHub stars across 65 public repos, with 6 repositories active in the last 90 days and 1 external contributors on record. kununu shows 138 stars across 40 public repos, 17 active in the last 90 days and 3 external contributors.

Heap is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. kununu looks better where momentum 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.