Mattermost vs Proton Mail

Mattermost (Mattermost is a secure collaboration platform for connecting your teams, tools and processes to accelerate mission-critical work.) and Proton Mail both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Mattermost (rank #40) holds a meaningful lead over Proton Mail (rank #401) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (62 vs 41). The gap of 21 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Mattermost carries 49,882 GitHub stars across 262 public repos, with 58 repositories active in the last 90 days and 105 external contributors on record. Proton Mail shows 16,265 stars across 186 public repos, 19 active in the last 90 days and 20 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Mattermost's footprint is roughly 3.1x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Mattermost is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Proton Mail 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.