Omnisend vs Recurly

Omnisend (Omnisend’s AI-powered platform helps ecommerce brands centralize email, SMS, and popups with automation, segmentation, and AI content tools.) and Recurly both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Recurly (rank #317) holds a modest lead over Omnisend (rank #625) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (44 vs 33). The gap of 11 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Omnisend carries 5 GitHub stars across 18 public repos, with 9 repositories active in the last 90 days and 4 external contributors on record. Recurly shows 1,564 stars across 53 public repos, 26 active in the last 90 days and 5 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Recurly's footprint is roughly 312.8x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Omnisend is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Recurly 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.