Raycast
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Raycast lets you control your tools with a few keystrokes. It’s designed to keep you focused.
License model
- Freemium • Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Google Chrome
- Safari
Features
Raycast News & Activities
Highlights • All activities
Recent News
- POX published news article about Raycast
Raycast makes its AI features available to everyone, with multiple models to choose fromRaycast has launched version 1.96 of its Mac launcher and productivity app, introducing Raycast AI ...
- Fla published news article about Raycast
Raycast now supports new GPT-4.1 modelsRaycast has announced support for the latest GPT-4.1 models, offering users options among GPT-4.1, ...
- POX published news article about Raycast
Raycast 1.95 released with enhanced AI features, improved user experience, and much moreRaycast has launched version 1.95, bringing a host of enhancements and bug fixes for its macOS prod...
Comments and Reviews
This is so many apps in one and its free! It does what Apple Spotlight/Alfred does, Magnet/Rectange (window management), Snippets management, web search from it, change system toggles (bluetooth, vol) which is useful for non Apple keyboards, search emojis (Rocket), screenshots, on screen temporary notes, calculator etc. I am just scratching the surface here as it has a store of free extensions to integrate most 3rd party apps too! If you have the money to donate to one free app it would be this one. -1 star because it can get buggy at times
1 app for all. Very handy. Love its clipboard history feature.
Definitely better than Spotlight and Alfred. It offers extensive customization, snippets, window management, a clipboard manager, and more.
Raycast is probably at the peak of what a what these hotkey launchers can do. Addons and Scripts allow to add anything that's not there by default.
Only concern: it is quite bloated, especially the AI integration/situation. Privacy: They say they don't collect anything, but they are in the same boat as Notion, so I have my doubts.
Lastly, you don't need it for many things you might want to use it for. If you didn't know modern browsers allow you to open bookmarks, search engines etc. using short keywords.
Also, making your terminal open with a hotkey allows for similar functionality to raycast or spotlight, as there are more and stronger CLI tools available than addons.
the only reason I still haven't thrown my MacBook away, can't wait for a Windows version, if happens one day
It's not just an application launcher, it's also able to search and switch opened windows using a keyboard, full-text search in application menus, manage clipboard history, and more. It also has many more extensions available than any other similar application. They allow control of almost any desktop application (e.g. iTerm2, Spotify, Authy, etc.) and web service (e.g. GitHub, Google, etc.).
The only downside is that, at least extensions, are written in TypeScript, so it's really slow.
Great app to shortcut your daily routine