Quo vs Remote

Quo (World's best business phone app) and Remote (Remote helps with international payroll, benefits, taxes, stock options, and compliance for businesses big and small!) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Remote (rank #278) holds a modest lead over Quo (rank #625) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (46 vs 33). The gap of 13 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Quo carries 12 GitHub stars across 20 public repos, with 2 repositories active in the last 90 days and 0 external contributors on record. Remote shows 811 stars across 51 public repos, 17 active in the last 90 days and 21 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Remote's footprint is roughly 67.6x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Quo is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Remote looks better where education 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.