Proton Mail vs Sprout Social

Proton Mail and Sprout Social both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Proton Mail and Sprout Social sit at essentially the same overall ecosystem score (41), which is unusual and worth reading through the pillars below.

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

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. Sprout Social shows 313 stars across 68 public repos, 4 active in the last 90 days and 3 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Proton Mail's footprint is roughly 52.0x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Proton Mail is the stronger read for anyone weighting community. Sprout Social 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.