IFTTT vs Sprout Social

IFTTT (Automations for business and home. 1,000+ of your favorite apps, services and devices. Save time and get more done.) and Sprout Social both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Sprout Social (rank #401) holds a narrow lead over IFTTT (rank #430) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (41 vs 40). The gap of 1 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Sprout Social is slightly ahead of IFTTT. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), IFTTT is ahead of Sprout Social. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), IFTTT is ahead of Sprout Social. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), IFTTT is ahead of Sprout Social. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Sprout Social is clearly 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. Sprout Social shows 313 stars across 68 public repos, 4 active in the last 90 days and 3 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but IFTTT's footprint is roughly 48.9x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

IFTTT is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. Sprout Social 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.