When comparing Lepton vs Cacher - Snippet Manager for Pro Developers, the Slant community recommends Lepton for most people. In the question“What is the best code-snippets manager?” Lepton is ranked 1st while Cacher - Snippet Manager for Pro Developers is ranked 15th. The most important reason people chose Lepton is:
Supports MacOS, Linux and Windows.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Multi platform support
Supports MacOS, Linux and Windows.
Pro Open source
Lepton is free and open source and is released under the MIT license.
Pro GitHub gist integration
Use GitHub Gist for cross-platform sync.
Pro Language sensitive syntax highlighting
Pro Support for Linux
Provides package in AppImage format which is distribution independent.
Pro Supports markdown
Pro Lepton refuses any donations in favor of Wikipedia
Pro Support for GitHub Enterprise
Pro Supports Jupyter Notebook viewer
Pro Sync to GitHub gist
2-way syncing with GitHub Gist. Free tier includes this feature.
Pro Integration with Editors
It integrates with VSCode, Atom, IntelliJ, Sublime, and Slack.
Pro Good user interface
User Interface is clean and simple.
Pro Labels and language filters
Filter your snippets by custom labels and programming languages.
Pro Desktop apps for Mac, Windows and Linux
Cacher comes with clients for major platforms.
Pro Team libraries
Easily share snippets and collaborate with your team.
Pro Feature recommendations through Trello public board
Cachers public board to recommend features.
Pro Comments
You can write comments for the snippets.
Pro Attach files related to the snippets
You can add files which act as a reference for the snippets.
Pro Markdown support
Excellent markdown support for snippet description and comments.
Pro Code runner
You can run your snippets inside the cacher but it has to be in proper syntax.
If you have a snippet block, it won't work.
Pro Browser extensions
Web browser extensions are also available to capture snippets.
Pro Full text searching
The search functionality is awesome.
Cons
Con Built on top of Electron
Electron is a memory hog.
Con Only works with GitHub Gists
As a GitHub Gist client that's not a con (or a problem), but as a snippets manager it is.
Con No integration with editors
There is no integration available with the editors.
Con No hierarchy for snippets
You cannot create hierarchies with folders or tags.
Con macOS version behave not like a mac application
Con Very limited as free version
Very expensive for what it does for the monthly cost it is asking for.
Con Free version makes everything public
Con Pricing is costly
Cacher costs $8 for a month and $6 for a month (for a yearly subscription). If they'd reduce the price to $5 or $4, it would be better.
Con Labels, comments and private snippets will be lost once you ended up your subscription
Once you plan to leave Cacher, you can't carry the labels and comments that you have given for the snippet.
Con Not worth it
