Gisto vs Lepton

Gisto is a free, open-source application for managing and sharing code snippets. It works with GitHub Gists, GitLab Snippets, Snippet-Bin, and local browser storage. Users can search full text, apply custom tags, group by language, and filter by content, filename, tags, or description. Its Monaco editor provides syntax highlighting, autocomplete, Emmet, and configurable settings. A snippet can bundle multiple files, including code, documentation, configurations, and README files; supported formats include Markdown, HTML, JSON, CSV, and PDF, with live preview for GitHub Flavored Markdown. Users can connect an AI API key to create snippet descriptions and tags. Local-only mode stores snippets in IndexedDB and supports editing, tagging, querying, export, and JSON import without an internet connection. That mode does not sync across devices or cloud providers. GitHub and GitLab synchronization connects directly to their official APIs, while access tokens are stored in local storage. Snippet-Bin can be self-hosted. Gisto runs on Linux, macOS, Windows, web, and self-hosted setups.

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.