jotform vs Salesforce

jotform (Free Online Form Builder & Form Creator) and Salesforce (Noteworthy Open Source projects made available by Salesforce. Available under Open Source or Creative Commons licensing. No warranty or support implied) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Salesforce (rank #83) holds a meaningful lead over jotform (rank #727) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (57 vs 30). 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), Salesforce is clearly ahead of jotform. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Salesforce is clearly ahead of jotform. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Salesforce is clearly ahead of jotform. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), jotform is slightly ahead of Salesforce. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Salesforce is ahead of jotform.

jotform carries 1,105 GitHub stars across 32 public repos, with 4 repositories active in the last 90 days and 3 external contributors on record. Salesforce shows 74,838 stars across 417 public repos, 71 active in the last 90 days and 6 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Salesforce's footprint is roughly 67.7x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

jotform is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Salesforce looks better where community 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.