I’d been looking for a code snippet manager for a while but all the applications that I’d tried previously had either been clunky or expensive. With the release of the Mac App Store, the first category I headed to was “Developer Tools”, just out of interest to see what Apple had approved – and I found an absolute gem.

CodeBox, made by Vadim Shpakovski (app store link) fitted my needs perfectly. A menubar item that lets you add code directly into your project, the ability to create a new snippet from the clipboard, editing of snippets in an external program & comprehensive tagging and categorisation of snippets.

The only enhancement I would like to see would be the ability to sync across multiple computers, but this is being added by the dev in a future update.

Oh, and the best thing about the app? The price – $4.99.