Lepton vs Snippet Box

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.

Snippet Box is a free, MIT-licensed self-hosted application for creating, editing, browsing, and managing code snippets in different languages. Its built-in editor handles snippet authoring, while syntax highlighting and detail views help users read code and documentation. Markdown support allows notes or simple documentation alongside snippets. A tagged library supports filtering, and users can pin important or favorite snippets to the home screen. Search covers snippet titles and descriptions, with language and tag filters that can be combined in one query. The project documents Docker deployment and a non-Docker route that runs the built server with Node.js. The listed backend uses Node.js, TypeScript, Express.js, Sequelize, and SQLite; the frontend uses React, TypeScript, and Bootstrap. A Docker example mounts a host data directory at /app/data. Docker build instructions include Linux and ARM targets, including arm/v7 and arm64. The listed plan costs nothing, and no free trial is listed.