Increase vs Proton Mail

Increase (Build your bank) and Proton Mail both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Increase (rank #55) holds a modest lead over Proton Mail (rank #401) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (60 vs 41). The gap of 19 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Increase carries 45 GitHub stars across 12 public repos, with 11 repositories active in the last 90 days and 5 external contributors on record. Proton Mail shows 16,265 stars across 186 public repos, 19 active in the last 90 days and 20 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Proton Mail's footprint is roughly 361.4x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Increase is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Proton Mail looks better where code quality 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.