Raycast overview

Raycast is a blazingly fast, totally extendable launcher. It lets you complete tasks, calculate, share common links, and much more.

It's as easy as installed

Say hello to the Store. A home for Extensions published by our community of developers using our API. Find extensions to the tools you use in your day-to-day.

Lightweight and snappy

Designed to be seamless and instant. View an Extension and hit ↵ to simply install it in milliseconds.

An evergrowing collection

Control Spotify or Apple Music with a hit of a button. Search through Figma, Notion, and Xcode. Check your internet speed and the weather without needing the browser, or even play a game of Snake.

What's new in version 2.2.0.0

✨ New

AI: Added support OpenAI-compatible custom providers, local models via Ollama, and OpenRouter API keys, using their models across Raycast AI
Quick AI: Added a Paste Formatted Response action
Window Management: Added Resize Window and Move Window commands that take exact pixel dimensions and coordinates as arguments
Window Management: Added Create Layout From Current Windows command allowing for quick capturing custom layouts from the windows currently on screen. The layout editor can also add any visible window, and a layout can place several windows of the same app
Window Management: Apps launched by a custom layout can now be given command-line arguments

💎 Improvements

AI: Added basic support for right-to-left text
AI Settings: Enabled Ask Questions and Collapse Long Messages by default and removed their settings
Root Search: Apps sharing a name are now disambiguated in search and app pickers
File Search: Deep directories no longer outrank shallower or more recent files

🐞 Fixes

Core: Fixed slow startup after system restart
Dictation: Fixed an issue where dictated text could be submitted before the target app had finished receiving it, cutting off part of the transcription
Extensions: Fixed Grid pagination, tooltips on List and Grid item icons and accessories, Form item info text, Alert icons, and checkbox preference grouping in Settings
File Search: Fixed a race condition that could cause the index to remain incomplete
File Search: Recent files now populate during indexing
Keyboard: Fixed hotkeys for Dvorak - QWERTY ⌘ keyboard layout
Main Window: Fixed Siri AI floating interface appearing in the main window on macOS 27
Mission Control: Fixed empty Raycast windows accumulating in Mission Control on macOS 27
Quick AI: Fixed launches from Root Search not applying the current Quick AI defaults in some situations
Root Search: Recent files should now be consistent with File Search

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User Ratings

Derekcurrie

Jun 16, 2025

1.83.0

4.0

Version: 1.83.0

v1.100.2 is out. The changelog is here: https://www.raycast.com/changelog - - AND the dev has released a version for iOS featuring various AI tools. Find it at the iOS App Store.

Oct 7, 2024

1.67.1

Version: 1.67.1

v1.83.2 is out. It's macOS 15 Sequoia ready. The Changelog is at: https://www.raycast.com/changelog

There are THREE versions: - - (I) Free: It includes Clipboard History, Quicklinks, Calculator, Snippets, Emoji Picker, Window Management, et al. And thousands of extensions, and custom extensions, and Developer Tooling. - - (II) Pro: $96 annual subscription. A free trial is available. It adds: Raycast AI, Cloud Sync, Custom Themes, Unlimited Clipboard History, Translator, Custom Window Management Commands. - - (III) Team Pro: $144 annual subscription per user. Adds: Unlimited Shared Commands, Unlimited Shared Snippets, Unlimited Shared Quicklinks, Unlimited Team Members. - - See the Dev site for further details.