Increase vs Unsplash

Increase (Build your bank) and Unsplash (Building the internet's open library of freely usable visuals. Join us 👫) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Increase (rank #55) holds a modest lead over Unsplash (rank #338) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (60 vs 43). The gap of 17 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Increase carries 45 GitHub stars across 12 public repos, with 11 repositories active in the last 90 days and 5 external contributors on record. Unsplash shows 9,930 stars across 63 public repos, 3 active in the last 90 days and 3 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Unsplash's footprint is roughly 220.7x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Increase is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Unsplash looks better where education 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.