When comparing Lepton vs SnippLeaf, the Slant community recommends Lepton for most people. In the question“What is the best code-snippets manager?” Lepton is ranked 1st while SnippLeaf is ranked 11th. 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 Sharing
The Snippets can be shared via a link.
Pro Grouping
Snippets can be grouped by keywords.
Pro Syntax highlighting
Code highlighting for a lot of languages.
Pro Online Service
Accessible from everywhere due to being an online service.
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.