Linear vs Wealthsimple

Linear (A purpose-built tool for planning and building products) and Wealthsimple (Building the world's most human financial company) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Linear (rank #103) holds a meaningful lead over Wealthsimple (rank #693) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (55 vs 31). The gap of 24 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

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. 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 Linear's footprint is roughly 14.3x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Linear is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. 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.