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Add to SafariWhen comparing Lepton vs SnipAway, the Slant community recommends Lepton for most people. In the question“What is the best code-snippets manager?” Lepton is ranked 1st while SnipAway is ranked 17th. The most important reason people chose Lepton is:
Supports MacOS, Linux and Windows.
Specs
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 ZIP import / export
SnipAway saves all your snippet files locally. To create a backup of your snippets or to use them on other computers SnipAway allows you to export your snippets as a zip file and import them again. Same goes for all application settings.
Pro Advanced code editor
Has a very advanced internal editor which you can also customize to match your style.
Pro Global shortcuts
Using global shortcuts you can access features like quick create and quick search directly without opening up SnipAway again.
Pro Supports markdown
Pro Highly customizable
You can change a lot of settings to make SnipAway fit your personal preferences.
Pro Web snippet
Allowing to save any website or file on the web.
Pro Save snippets to network storage
Can save the snippets to a NAS or something else. Multiple access to the snippets. But the last change is saved.
Pro Great for Storing Websites you often use
Pro Support for Windows & macOS
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 No subfolders
Stores the snippet in only one folder.
Con No TAGS
Folders can't replace tags, and tags are the most used way to categories snippets.
For now tags must go in the title (making the "Add Snippet" operation very time consuming).
Con Only for Windows
Update 2019: Now there is a macOS version.
