When comparing Simple Snippets vs Codeit, the Slant community recommends Codeit for most people. In the question“What is the best code-snippets manager?” Codeit is ranked 24th while Simple Snippets is ranked 31st. The most important reason people chose Codeit is:
Source code is available on [Github](https://github.com/codeitcodes/codeit).
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Pros
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.
Pro Free and open source
Source code is available on Github.
Pro Supports a lot of languages
C, C++, C#, CSS, HTML, Java, JavaScript, Lua, LaTex, Python, Ruby, SQL and more.
Pro Easy to setup
Codeit is really quick to load and pretty simple in terms of UI, so setup is a minute max. It's a web app, so it weighs nothing on your phone too.
Pro Live view
If you're editing a site and want to see how it looks, you can swipe up from the bottom edge and see it live, without any hosting, you can share these previews as well.
Pro Consistency
Codeit is available on Windows and macOS/iOS as well as Linux and Android, and looks the same on all platforms. The editor is pretty simple and you don't have to get used to new code editors every time you swap platforms.
Pro Supports 200 languages
Cons
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.
Con No multiple accounts
It would be useful to add more than one Git host account to Codeit.