Hotjar vs Humaans

Hotjar (Product Experience Insights Tools) and Humaans (A better workplace starts here) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Hotjar (rank #317) holds a modest lead over Humaans (rank #662) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (44 vs 32). The gap of 12 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Hotjar carries 52 GitHub stars across 2 public repos, with 1 repositories active in the last 90 days and 2 external contributors on record. Humaans shows 461 stars across 9 public repos, 4 active in the last 90 days and 2 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Humaans's footprint is roughly 8.9x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Hotjar is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Humaans makes more sense for teams already using its adjacent tools. The table below breaks the scores down pillar by pillar; the linked profiles cover the underlying repos, docs and community signals in full.