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I don't know lots about the technical differences but if I understand it correctly snaps can be created for servers but flatpaks can't. Apart from that Flatpak

I don't know lots about the technical differences but if I understand it correctly snaps can be created for servers but flatpaks can't. Apart from that Flatpak is largely, but not exclusively, a Gnome effort while Snap is backed by Canonical and Ubuntu, though again not exclusively. That's a statement of fact but usually in these discussions it's uttered as a value judgement. The ensuing discussion creates much more heat than light.

simosx 7y ago
The "snap for servers" was an issue so long time ago. I do not think it is worth repeating. Both snaps and flatpaks require a core image (a rootfs), and each package sits on top of that rootfs. For snaps, there is the core16 (and core18) images, which have quite a lot of shared libraries. Your snap package simply contains your program and any other extra libraries that are missing from the core image.