Increase vs Starling Bank

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

Increase (rank #55) holds a meaningful lead over Starling Bank (rank #625) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (60 vs 33). The gap of 27 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Increase is slightly ahead of Starling Bank. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Increase is slightly ahead of Starling Bank. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Increase is clearly ahead of Starling Bank. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Increase is ahead of Starling Bank. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Starling Bank is slightly 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. Starling Bank shows 195 stars across 3 public repos, 3 active in the last 90 days and 0 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Starling Bank's footprint is roughly 4.3x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Increase is the stronger read for anyone weighting community. Starling Bank 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.