📌 Snipvault
Every snippet you've ever written, searchable in one place. Pay once.
Snipvault at a glance
| Price | $49, once — no renewal |
| Replaces | Cacher at $6/mo — roughly $72 a year, every year |
| Type | Web app — self-hosted |
| Platforms | Windows, macOS, Linux |
| Category | Developer Tools |
Snipvault features
📄 Multi-file snippets
Title, description, and one or more files per snippet, with language auto-detected from the filename.
🌈 Highlighting for 100+ languages
highlight.js — server-side rendered on public pages, lazy-loaded in the editor.
🗂️ Collections & tags
Organize snippets into folders and filter by tag chips.
🔍 Fuzzy + full-content search
Instant client-side fuzzy match over titles/filenames/tags, merged with server-side SQLite FTS5 across file content — content matches clearly labeled.
🔗 Three-tier share links
Private (admin only), secret (unlisted 12-char link), or public (listed on /explore).
⚡ Raw + embed endpoints
curl -s host/raw/slug/script.sh | bash for deploy scripts, plus Gist-style script embeds and an iframe-able embed page.
📥 GitHub Gist importer
Paste a token, pick gists, import — idempotent, so re-importing updates instead of duplicating.
🤖 CLI-friendly API
A static bearer token works on every /api/* route — create and search snippets from scripts or CI.
$49 once — that's the whole pricing page
Cacher charges $6/mo — roughly $72 a year, every year. Snipvault is a single payment, and it keeps working whether or not we ever sell another copy.
Or get Snipvault inside the full suite — every app in the catalog, currently $97 for the bundle. See the bundle →
Snipvault guides & pages
Honest answers
Is it really free on GitHub?
Yes — the full source is MIT at github.com/bensblueprints/snipvault-mvp, always. $49 buys the packaged installer and lifetime updates for people who'd rather click an installer than run docker compose.
Why not just keep using GitHub Gists?
Gists are free and great for quick shares — but they give you no tags, no collections, and only limited search. Snipvault imports them all (idempotently) and adds the organization layer, full-content search and secret/public visibility control.
How good is the search really?
Two engines merged: instant client-side fuzzy matching over titles, descriptions, filenames and tags, plus server-side SQLite FTS5 over actual file content — with content-only matches clearly labeled so you know why a result appeared.