Kanboard vs Starling Bank

Kanboard (Kanban project management software) and Starling Bank both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Kanboard and Starling Bank sit at essentially the same overall ecosystem score (33), which is unusual and worth reading through the pillars below.

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

Kanboard carries 10,509 GitHub stars across 52 public repos, with 4 repositories active in the last 90 days and 15 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 Kanboard's footprint is roughly 53.9x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Kanboard is the stronger read for anyone weighting community. Starling Bank looks better where reach 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.