Every snippet you've ever written, searchable in one place. Pay once.
Developers rent API docs, monitoring, secrets and webhook plumbing by the month for side projects that earn nothing yet. Self-hosted pay-once utilities cost less than one month of the SaaS they replace.
The tool this job usually means renting is Cacher, at $6/mo — roughly $72 a year, every year. Snipvault does the job for a one-time $49 — running on infrastructure you control.
Title, description, and one or more files per snippet, with language auto-detected from the filename.
For developers, multi-file snippets pays off while you're shipping, not managing vendor accounts — and it's covered by the same one-time $49, not metered per month.
highlight.js — server-side rendered on public pages, lazy-loaded in the editor.
For developers, highlighting for 100+ languages pays off while you're shipping, not managing vendor accounts — and it's covered by the same one-time $49, not metered per month.
Organize snippets into folders and filter by tag chips.
For developers, collections & tags pays off while you're shipping, not managing vendor accounts — and it's covered by the same one-time $49, not metered per month.
One-time $49 for the packaged Windows desktop app plus guided VPS deploy, lifetime updates.
Desktop app in one click, or docker compose up on any $5 VPS when you want share links on your own domain.
The idempotent Gist importer pulls your existing snippets across; FTS5 makes all of it — including file contents — instantly searchable.
Snipvault is $49, once. Cacher at $6/mo — roughly $72 a year, every year. Pays for itself in a little over 8 months versus Cacher — the 3-year saving is $167.
Pays for itself in a little over 8 months versus Cacher — the 3-year saving is $167. Snipvault costs $49 once; Cacher charges $6/mo — about $72 a year. For developers, that fixed cost is the whole point: the tool is a one-time line item, not a monthly one.
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.
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.