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Add to SafariWhen comparing Lepton vs Simple Snippets, the Slant community recommends Lepton for most people. In the question“What is the best code-snippets manager?” Lepton is ranked 1st while Simple Snippets is ranked 31st. The most important reason people chose Lepton is:
Supports MacOS, Linux and Windows.
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Question Ranking
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 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 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 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.
