Code Snippets vs Lepton

Code Snippets is a WordPress plugin for keeping PHP, CSS, JavaScript, and HTML snippets in one place, without editing a theme or plugin. Users can switch snippets on and off, and the cloud platform supports backing up, synchronizing, collaborating on, and deploying snippets across WordPress sites. Snippets can be grouped into bundles for team use, while the Community Cloud lets users browse submissions and add them to a site. The free plan offers limited functionality, no AI prompts, and snippet syncing across sites. Pro can generate and activate snippets using AI and includes unlimited AI prompts. Listed Pro features include Elementor widgets, WordPress blocks, REST API access, WP-CLI automation, conditional logic, file-based execution, multisite support, JavaScript minification, and external CSS file loading. The product is available on the web. Monthly plans range from $3.90 a month for one website to $29.90 a month for unlimited websites. Other options include $149 a year for Code Snippets Pro and lifetime plans starting at $137, paid once. Pro users receive personal email support; free users can seek support through Facebook and Discord.

Lepton is a free desktop code snippet manager that uses GitHub Gist for storage and syncing. It supports unlimited public and secret snippets, unlimited tags, and language groups, plus editing for Markdown and Jupyter Notebook snippets. Search can match filenames, languages, descriptions, tags, IDs, and downloaded snippet contents. Searching all snippet contents globally requires enabling `snippet.downloadAll` before syncing. Lepton supports GitHub Enterprise and lets users sign in with GitHub OAuth or a GitHub personal access token with the `gist` scope. The project says there is no separate sync service: data is stored locally in the app or remotely in GitHub Gist. Packaged builds use Electron safeStorage for cached tokens when available, with a plaintext-file fallback if it is unavailable. Settings in `.leptonrc` include themes, editor options, proxy, shortcuts, notifications, and language. Desktop releases are available for macOS, Windows, and Linux, including AppImage and Snap packages for Linux. The project is MIT-licensed. The free plan costs nothing.