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Lepton

Lepton is a free, open-source notes and writing app for Windows, macOS and Linux. Democratizing Snippet Management (macOS/Win/Linux). It has 10,341 GitHub stars and is released under the MIT license. Its source code is on GitHub at hackjutsu/Lepton.

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About Lepton

Lepton is a lean code snippet manager powered by GitHub Gist. Check out the latest release. See the Search FAQ for searchable fields and content-search behavior.

Install Lepton

Package names found in the project's README. Each links to its package page so you can check the publisher first.

Homebrew (macOS)
brew install --cask lepton

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Snap (Linux)
snap install lepton

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FAQ

Lepton FAQ

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Is Lepton free and open source?

Yes. Lepton's source code is public on GitHub under the MIT license, which is OSI-approved or FSF-free, so you can use, copy and change it for free.

How do I install Lepton?

Homebrew: brew install --cask lepton and Snap: snap install lepton. The commands are on this page. Installers are also on its GitHub Releases page (latest: v2.0.0).

Is Lepton still maintained?

The repository's most recent commit was on Oct 27, 2026. appsgit only lists apps whose repository had a commit in the last six months.