Proton Mail vs Smartsheet

Proton Mail and Smartsheet (Opensource SDKs for the Smartsheet collaborative work management platform) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Smartsheet (rank #338) holds a narrow lead over Proton Mail (rank #401) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (43 vs 41). The gap of 2 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Proton Mail carries 16,265 GitHub stars across 186 public repos, with 19 repositories active in the last 90 days and 20 external contributors on record. Smartsheet shows 150 stars across 11 public repos, 8 active in the last 90 days and 15 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Proton Mail's footprint is roughly 108.4x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Proton Mail is the stronger read for anyone weighting code quality. Smartsheet 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.