Increase vs Wealthsimple

Increase (Build your bank) and Wealthsimple (Building the world's most human financial company) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Increase (rank #55) holds a meaningful lead over Wealthsimple (rank #693) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (60 vs 31). The gap of 29 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Wealthsimple is slightly ahead of Increase. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Increase is slightly ahead of Wealthsimple. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Increase is clearly ahead of Wealthsimple. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Increase is clearly ahead of Wealthsimple. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Wealthsimple 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. Wealthsimple shows 138 stars across 102 public repos, 4 active in the last 90 days and 0 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Wealthsimple's footprint is roughly 3.1x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Increase is the stronger read for anyone weighting community. Wealthsimple 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.