When comparing Code Collector Pro vs Lepton, the Slant community recommends Lepton for most people. In the question“What is the best code-snippets manager?” Lepton is ranked 1st while Code Collector Pro is ranked 33rd. The most important reason people chose Lepton is:
Supports MacOS, Linux and Windows.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Smart folders, with robust rules based search
Pro Organize snippets, by License, Language, and tag.
Pro Snippet tagging
Pro Code Highlighting
Pro Hot Key Quick Search, no matter which application you have open in the foreground bring up the Hot Key Quick Search to paste in your favorite snippet
Pro Support for multiple languages (Objective-C, PHP, Ruby, C, and many more can be added)
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
Cons
Con Only syncs to CodeCollector.net
Con Not enough languages out of the box
Although languages can be added with tmbundle, there could have been more languages out of the box for more convenience.
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.