When comparing GitLab Snippets vs Simple Snippets, the Slant community recommends GitLab Snippets for most people. In the question“What is the best code-snippets manager?” GitLab Snippets is ranked 4th while Simple Snippets is ranked 31st.
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Pros
Pro Self hostable
Pro Libre/open source
Included in GitLab CE (community edition)
Pro Set of snippets
There are snippets created and shared by other people
Pro Web-based
All your snippets are available at work, at home or on your mobile device.
Pro Private pages
All your code is private by default, but you can share specific snippets with others if you want. Some other sites allow private pages only for extra payment.
Pro Code highlighting
It supports highlighting for dozens of languages, even less known ones.
Pro Free
It's absolutely free at the moment.
Cons
Con Bad support for searching for snippets
Con No Versioning
Con No Tagging
Con No tree / category: all Snippets are in the project root
Con Poor Language Syntax Highlighting
Con Help page
Help page is still under construction.
Con No search yet
Search feature is not available at the moment. So you cannot find snippets by keywords.