Shopify vs Smartsheet

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

Shopify (rank #14) holds a meaningful lead over Smartsheet (rank #338) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (67 vs 43). The gap of 24 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Shopify carries 124,714 GitHub stars across 1,211 public repos, with 75 repositories active in the last 90 days and 87 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 Shopify's footprint is roughly 831.4x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Shopify 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.