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Proton Mail vs Woo

Developer ecosystem comparison across GitHub activity, SDKs, documentation, community, reach and momentum.

Proton Mail and Woo (The company behind WooCommerce, the open-source commerce platform for WordPress.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Woo (rank #103) holds a modest lead over Proton Mail (rank #401) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (55 vs 41). The gap of 14 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Woo is slightly ahead of Proton Mail. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Woo is slightly ahead of Proton Mail. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Woo is slightly ahead of Proton Mail. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Proton Mail is ahead of Woo. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Woo is clearly 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. Woo shows 23,045 stars across 247 public repos, 47 active in the last 90 days and 100 external contributors.

Proton Mail is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Woo looks better where momentum 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.

Side-by-side metrics

MetricProton MailWoo
Ranking
Overall rank#401#103
Pillars
Overall4155
Code6468
Education4246
Community4651
Reach4434
Momentum5274
Builder experience00
Signals
Stars16,26523,045
Forks2,24015,386
Public repos186247
Active repos (90d)1947
External contributors20100
Avg polish7470
Avg AI-readiness3248

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