CodeBox App Reviews

The app hasn’t been updated since 2012! 2 YEARS!!!! 1- Please integrate Codebox with Alfred 2- Enable iCloud backup for the snippets 3- Update the menubar icon for Retina Please update the app!

A waste of $10

I have gone through a few snippet apps, but none of them compare to Codebox. I was able to import my entire snippets library from my other snippets app using Codeboxs import option. In the past Ive spent hours migrating snippets from one app to another and Codebox made it effortless. Codebox easily saves to Dropbox so you can work consistently on all devices. Multiple tabs in snippets lets you organize an entire library of files in one group and drag them into a project. This app is built extremely well. Im really amazed and hope Codebox continues to grow!

CodeBox hasn’t had an update in almost three years. And while that might give me pause when buying a new app (and investing time in making it a meaningful part of my workflow), the fact is that CodeBox has run almost perfectly the entire time I’ve owned it. There is one small bug I’ve seen, and some areas could be improved. But I use it countless times every day, and it is just wonderful. Using CodeBar to search for snippets and paste into Sublime Text or Sequel Pro is super easy, and I regularly add new snippets, new smart groups, new tags, etc. Be warned that the file format is XML-like, but the actual code is stored in some kind of encrypted format. That means you can’t just open a CodeBox library file and see all of your code, but you can simply drag-and-drop your snippets to the Finder to export them as regular files. The proprietary format has not been an issue for me. I do hope an update will come someday, but I see no need to jump ship. It may not be the latest, but it’s still the greatest.

I loved CodeBox. But Id hate to see anyone else purchase this now. My app WONT EVEN LAUNCH. Deleted prefs files, messed with permissions, the whole bit. All of this, of course, comes as no surprise: just look at the dates of the other reviews... 2012s and a few 2014s? Really. This app is DEAD.

If the author had kept fixing bugs and missing features (even simple things like missing languages, and the ability to easily add your own) this would be a solid app. It has a lot going for it, but unfortunately it also has a lot wrong with it. Dont waste your money. Take a look at Snippets Lab instead. The import from CodeBox is still buggy, but if you havent already invested time and code into CodeBox, you wont care. An example bug with this app: if you have two monitors the menu goes flying offscreen. WHAT!?

I just bought Codebox (April 2016) and regret not doing a little more homework. I wanted the app for Swift snippets and the app doesn’t have support for Swift. It doesn’t look like it’s been updated since 2012 and the last Twitter posts from the author are from 2013 making any future support a bit unlikely. I would recommend looking online at something like GistBox which, while doesn’t currently offer Swift support either, is as least being actively developed. Another option is to simply use something like Evernote. With great search and tags, it seems to offer the same as CodeBox, especially for languages missing syntax highlighting.