The story behind Snipset
Snipset is a native Rust text expander built by Iwan Kurniawan and Belajar Cara Belajar (BCB Academy). It exists to prove that a privacy-first productivity tool can also be the fastest to respond and the most straightforward to own. Every number on this page comes from the live product: dated releases, measured installers, and a public roadmap.
Snipset at a glance
Rendered from the same JSON that drives the /performance, /roadmap, and /changelog pages. No figure here is estimated.
Why Snipset exists
Typing the same sentences, pasting the same answers, and hunting for old snippets steals time from every knowledge worker. Most expanders solve the repetition but add new costs: a heavy runtime that idles in the tray, or a cloud account that stores what you type.
Snipset takes the opposite path. The engine is native Rust with an OS-level keyboard hook, so the fastest path from trigger to expanded text never crosses a webview or a script bridge. Snippets and clipboard history live in a local SQLite database. AI features run through on-device Ollama models. There is no account, no telemetry, and no recurring fee: you pay once and own the version forever.
Snipset is a product of Belajar Cara Belajar (BCB Academy), the education company founded by Iwan Kurniawan. It grew out of the workflows BCB teaches: meta-learning, active recall, and automation that keeps the learner in control. Snipset is the practical companion to that mission.
The advantages behind the product
Snipset competes on differences that are easy to verify and hard to copy. Each card below links to live evidence, and the installer figures are re-measured on every release.
Native Rust engine
Keystrokes travel through compiled native code with no webview or script bridge in the hot path. Installer size, engine timings, and idle footprint are re-measured on every release.
See measured numbers →Offline first, zero telemetry
Snippets live in a local SQLite store and the app works with no account. Anything that touches the network, like model downloads or update checks, is explicit.
Read the security model →On-device AI
Ollama models, a Hugging Face model registry with streaming downloads, and automatic cleanup of old versions run on your machine, not on someone else's server.
Browse features →Vault and MFA in one place
A TOTP authenticator with timer and one-tap OTP copy sits next to snippets and clipboard history, inside encrypted local stores.
Read the security model →Verifiable distribution
Signed Windows installers with published SHA-256 checksums, a clean VirusTotal record, and Scoop, Chocolatey, and Winget manifests generated from the release itself.
Get Snipset →Compared against TextExpander, Raycast, Alfred, espanso, and Beeftext in the head-to-head matrix →, with measured numbers on the performance page → and answer-by-answer detail in the FAQ →.
What we believe
Privacy is non-negotiable
Snippets, clipboard history, and AI prompts stay in a local SQLite database. No account is required to use the product, and nothing leaves your device by default.
Performance over feature count
The typing hot path is compiled native code. We keep the footprint small instead of adding features that slow the very machine the tool is meant to speed up.
Software you own
One payment, perpetual license, and lifetime minor updates. No subscription meter and no rented feature set.
Build in public, measure honestly
Every release is dated in the changelog, current work is labeled on the roadmap, and performance figures are measured per release rather than estimated.
Who builds Snipset
Iwan Kurniawan
Founder of Belajar Cara Belajar (BCB Academy), creator of Snipset
Iwan is an educator and content creator who graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Indonesia. Across his platforms he teaches more than 500,000 followers the skills behind meta-learning: how to study effectively, beat procrastination, and put AI automation to work. Snipset is the product expression of those same workflows, built to respect the privacy standards he teaches.
Snipset is made by BCB Academy, the education company Iwan founded. The creator audience BCB reaches is the distribution channel behind the product, and the public release history on this site is the record of how fast it ships.