Kanboard vs MailerLite

Kanboard (Kanban project management software) and MailerLite (Digital marketing tools to grow your audience faster and drive revenue smarter.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

MailerLite (rank #430) holds a narrow lead over Kanboard (rank #625) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (40 vs 33). The gap of 7 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Kanboard is slightly ahead of MailerLite. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Kanboard is clearly ahead of MailerLite. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), MailerLite is slightly ahead of Kanboard. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), MailerLite is ahead of Kanboard.

Kanboard carries 10,486 GitHub stars across 52 public repos, with 4 repositories active in the last 90 days and 13 external contributors on record. MailerLite shows 1,134 stars across 39 public repos, 25 active in the last 90 days and 3 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Kanboard's footprint is roughly 9.2x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Kanboard is the stronger read for anyone weighting community. MailerLite 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.