IFTTT vs Spreedly

IFTTT (Automations for business and home. 1,000+ of your favorite apps, services and devices. Save time and get more done.) and Spreedly (Simple and secure PCI compliance and payment forwarding.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

IFTTT (rank #430) holds a modest lead over Spreedly (rank #728) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (40 vs 30). The gap of 10 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

IFTTT carries 15,307 GitHub stars across 75 public repos, with 1 repositories active in the last 90 days and 2 external contributors on record. Spreedly shows 418 stars across 67 public repos, 10 active in the last 90 days and 2 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but IFTTT's footprint is roughly 36.6x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

IFTTT is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. Spreedly 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.