Snippetslab App Reviews

Every version crashes. We aren't talking about a program thats all that sophisticated. This shouldn't be happening.

I use this app all the time, Its so amazing to log problems that you come across all the time. Half of the time i check this before i go to stackoverflow which saves me time!

This app has a beautiful interface, but if you work on a team of coders it’s impossible to share. You have to restart it toget any updates through a Google Drive/Drop Box sync. Really, really needs sharing.

Another reveiwer said iCloud sync doesn’t work, but I decided to try the app out anyways. iCloud sync seems to be working fine. I chose this app over Dash because Dash seems too focused on documenation and not focused enough on basic editing of snippets. Text expansion would be a nice feature, but for me it’s not a big deal.

very nice alfred power pack integration. love it!

I have really enjoyed using this application. The developer has been very quick to respond to suggestions and feedback. One such thing was adding a keyboard to Copy the currently selected snippet into your paste buffer. The next one that has really improved my productivity is the Alfred Workflow that can be optionally installed.

I love this app. I use it constantly, and it's such a help with my work every single day. I love the frequent updates and improvements

I bought this app a while ago and found it incredibly useful, but all of a sudden it just started crashing everytime I open it, with no error or anything. Based on other reviews for the previous version I know that I am not the only customer experiencing these crashes, and I was very frustrated to find that this still has not been fixed with the latest update! Please fix this becuase right now this app does nothing but annoy me and take up space.

I’ve tried most of the code snippet apps out there. This one is one of the better ones. I’ve tried quiver, boostnote, and Dash. They all have something I like but none of them have it all. This app seems to be native so performance is great, and I dig the “Fragments” or tabs for each snippet. Which allows for you to have multile file types for each snippet. And has nice integration with Alfred (requires a little setup); and the quick drop down from menu bar is great!... I’ve noticed reports about not syncing to iCloud. I haven’t logged into my account so I dont know, but I sync with Dropbox/Google Drive anyway, so it’s a non-issue. My only two gripes are the inability to format the code within the editor ie: Highlight code > cmd + shift + backspace to align code to the left; and the themes. All of the themes are basically slightly lighter/darker than the previous. Beautiful UI, just don’t like the syntax highlighting. I would like to see something like Afterglow/railscast, or better yet, custom CSS file to create our own. Looking forward to future updates.

I really wanted to like this app, but after constantly losing hours of work due to syncing issues, I cannot rely on this app anymore.

I’m a data analyst in academia. I always find myself in the situation of needing do something in python that I only will need to do once every four months. My memory isn’t my strong suit, so when those four months have passed, I always have to re-google and solve these problems over and over again. Snippetslab has totally changed that for me. I just take the resulting code and write a few notes about it and drop it into Snippetslab. This has saved me sooo much time! It’s also nice because it done highlight for Python, making the notes easy to read. I cannot recommend this application enough!

SECOND UPDATE Another great round of updates and new features - this has become an essential, go-to app. The "fragments" feature where you can combine multiple files/views into a single snippet is awesome. The app is really polished and intuitive overall. PREVIOUS UPDATE SnippetsLab continues to get major improvements; the developer is doing a great job maintaining it. The ability to control the line-height and other code editing styles makes it much more user-friendly. I also really like the ability to apply a default syntax to a folder; not sure if this is a new feature but it works great. The next feature I'm hoping to see is an expanded section for notes. Currently the space for notes is very small; I almost always have to put my notes about a snippet at the top in a comment block. Other than this, the app is getting pretty close to excellent. Another helpful feature would be a field for recording the source of the snippet, such as a URL or book title. PREVIOUS REVIEW: SnippetsLab is promising and may end up being the best snippet manager on the market. Right now though, I've stopped using it because the interface feels so cramped. The line height in the code section is extremely tight and the notes section is so small that it's basically unusable. Typing code is also an issue because it lacks basic features like adding a closing bracket when you type an open bracket, and aligning/indenting a new line when you hit enter. The developers are doing a pretty good job of adding new features though, so hopefully the UI issues will be worked out.

The gist support is really bare, and i can't get it to work with my enterprise github. Not cool.

Evernote for Code Snippets

Nice idea and all, but unfortunately there is no effective way to synchronize snippets between machines. Just touching the iCloud tabs in Preferences will send the app into an infinite spin as has been the case over several versions now. So unless you want to start to manually create a document with another app where you keep all your snippets and then manually transfer those back into this app on each machine, you're fresh out of options. And that of course completely defeats the purpose of this app. If you only run one computer though this may not be of concern. Otherwise best look elsewhere. BTW: Can't verify the author's claim of "Mac App Store BEST". Seems he only added that headline as a shameless marketing gimmick. Well - I fell for it, so at least someone is making money.

Great app, very helpful for building up a personal library of code snippets. The new Alfred integration is fantastic!

While I would typically lean to using something like Dash’s snippet due to its ability to integrate with Alfred Workflows, I have found myself using SnippetsLab for almost a year now. Its ability to run in the background reduces clutter and can be quickly called up with Alfred or Spotlight. Alternatively, can quickly access all your snippets through its menu bar icon. Other features that keep me using it are the nice themes and supports syntax formatting and highlighting for a huge list of languages. Lastly, the new markdown viewer is great and allows for complete cutomization of styling. Nice job guys! Oh, and it has never crashed on me, that I can recall.

This has been a great app to keep track of code snippets. I like that you can assign tags and keep a note at the top of the code. The fragment feature is awesome! It would be very useful have an option to set a default languate when you create a new snippet. It’s annoying to have to change it every time from Plain Text to the language you want. I think most people work in one language most of the time, so this would be useful. Another thing is that Folders and Categories should be called one thing. This was hard to grasp when I started using the app. I could not figure out how to create a new category or manage categories in any way. I finally figured out that it’s the same thing as folders. Please just call this one thing (either Folders OR Categories) to eliminate confusion. It would also be nice to have more indentation control. For example, being able to highlight a few lines of text and hit Tab to indent those lines. Or vice versa (like Shift +Tab) to un-indent them. I will continue to use this program, but if the above things were addressed, it would make this all the more useful!

The newest update brings useful integrations with Alfred. I use Alfred daily, so this integration makes it so much easier to search and copy snippets to my clipboard. I didn’t use the app as often before since I kept on forgetting shortcut to bring up the SnippetsLab search but with Alfred it’s much easier. Thank you!

This app was exactly what I needed, but I noticed that it was a while since the last update. Then when I started using it, I ran into the gross fragmets bug. So I uninstalled the app. If it isn’t being updated and there’s deal breaker bugs, I’m not going to waste my time. That was a month ago. Lo and behold, I find myself on the App Store page by accident and notice it’s been updated. So glad! Thank you!

I really appreciate the effort it takes to make an app like this. I really like this app. I want to love it. It works fine for me, except when using iCloud sync it sometimes freezes my computer. When I go to shut my computer down, the app freezes the shutdown process. I have to force quit. This seems to be of particular issue on my 2012 iMac. If this gets fixed, or some guidance can be provided, then I’ll rate it five stars. But still, the app has an abundance of features. I like being able to copy/paste, or type code and select Objective-C, Swift, etc. It allows for great organization using folders. An lastly, the search works very well.

After years of coding and saving snippets to text files here and there and really no central organization, SnippetsLab adds a beautfully simple and effective code management tool for creating reference points, snippets, and overal cheat sheets for code used on a regular basis.

Overall this is a great app to manage snippets. However, since i am a vimer and SnippetLab do not have vim mode to do the editing. That cause me feel weird when typing...

That is all. SnippetsLab is just fantastic and is an indispensable tool for me.

From code snippets, to notes, to publishing Gists - this is the kind of tool I expect on a make - simple, clean, and powerful. Thanks! to the development team.

The only downfall of this I’ve been finding is it’s iCloud sync being tempermental, and not having Slack integration in the sharing. With teams in remote locations that would be a huge help!

Make sure you have alternative backup, I just lost 3 hours of my work.

After using it for a few months, its database got corrupted, nothing would open, DropBox backups will not restore (I get a wrong verion error). Contacted support - no reply. Seriousely, apps own data backup doesn’t work? Ditched it - $10 down the drain.

I have a lot of old codes that i keep in text files. I never used code manager before. This app came a saver for me to have all my old code and search them in one place. However, with the lanugagues I used, it'd be better to have expand and collapse for Code Blocks. On the other hand, till now, i have no issue with iCloud syncronize.

The app is not opening at all. Not sure what exactly happened but it’s making me lose alot of time.

This works great …. hightly recommend it. I have been using it for several months and no problems.

This app is excellent….but it stopped opening!

iCloud sync works perfectly between iMac and MacBook Pro. Easy to organize snippets. Make a change on one Mac and it shows up on the other. Sharing and groups would be helpful. No need for a text expander. This is a snippet collector of previously created code. Well done. The only negative so far is how frequently the app is updated. The last updated was eight months ago. Six months and I consider it abandonware and start looking for a replacement. Otherwise, SnippetsLab works well, is intuitive and useful for anyone who collects, well, snippets of text.

Good idea, but poor implimentation and testing. This product does not properly work with iCloud. If you have two computers and set the cloud sync to work with iCloud, the two products will not sync. Each will create it’s own library and you cannot create a iCloud library that will allow all your computers to use the same library. In effect, the iCloud sync is useless.

This app was working fine until today, but it suddenly stopped launching.

At present, this ia more of a Notebook. If you’re expecting CodeBox or Dash-style text expansion so you can insert your own values at insertion-time, look elsewhere.

As a Software Developer, I use this all day long to keep references for a variety of programming languages, CLIs, design patterns and more. I was hesitate due to the price but it’s completely worth it! I enabled iCloud Sync (in the settings) and configured to keep a large number of backups (just in case it does crash and lose everything like one reviewer stated). However, I’ve added a lot entries and tabs and haven’t had any issues; and with iCloud Sync keeping backups, I’m not worried about it (as it generates a backup everytime I add something new)

since knowing it 2 month ago i use it all the time. there are constant updates and enhancements - well done