Linear vs Quo

Linear (A purpose-built tool for planning and building products) and Quo (World's best business phone app) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Linear (rank #103) holds a meaningful lead over Quo (rank #625) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (55 vs 33). The gap of 22 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Linear carries 1,971 GitHub stars across 22 public repos, with 5 repositories active in the last 90 days and 21 external contributors on record. Quo shows 12 stars across 20 public repos, 2 active in the last 90 days and 0 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Linear's footprint is roughly 164.3x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Linear is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Quo makes more sense for teams already using its adjacent tools. The table below breaks the scores down pillar by pillar; the linked profiles cover the underlying repos, docs and community signals in full.