CodeGofer For Mac

CodeGofer is an elegant OS X solution for quickly finding code snippets, one-liners and recipes in various programming languages.

The CodeGofer application is free to install from the and comes with multiple recipe collections, such as Cocoa Basics, Bash scripting, Git recipes, Javascript Basics and Python Recipes, among others.

Starting a new search is really simple. First of all, you must select the collections you want to search from the app’s preferences.

Afterwards, hit a global hotkey (ALT + CTRL + Space by default) and an elegant search box will be displayed. Immediately after typing a keyword, search results are displayed in a list below the search box.

This is quite a simple and elegant search method, however it would have been useful to open the search box with the mouse via the menu bar as well.

What’s more, you can view the whole name of the snippet / recipe and the its category. Clicking on the snippet name will open it in a separate window. If you want to cancel the search and close the snippet, just hit Escape.

The snippet window makes it easy to copy and read the code in many themes. Fonts and colors can be changed via the Preferences window where you can find numerous themes to suit all needs.

Another handy function is its inbuilt ability to search the keywords that were not included in CodeGofer’s snippets on the web.

This is easily done by clicking on “Search Web for [your keyword]” that appears after search results were unavailable. Stack Overflow, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Google and Yahoo! are the supported search engines.

In a nutshell, CodeGofer is a simplistic, yet powerful app for users who want to learn code snippet templates in a good number of programming languages.

CodeGofer is extremely simple to operate, customizable and also helps you search for programming tips and tricks using popular web search engines.