Heap vs Userlike

Heap (Product Insights) and Userlike both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Heap and Userlike 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), Userlike is slightly ahead of Heap. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Userlike is ahead of Heap. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Heap is slightly ahead of Userlike. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Heap is ahead of Userlike.

Heap carries 215 GitHub stars across 65 public repos, with 6 repositories active in the last 90 days and 1 external contributors on record. Userlike shows 38 stars across 14 public repos, 3 active in the last 90 days and 3 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Heap's footprint is roughly 5.7x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Heap is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Userlike looks better where education 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.