Raycast vs Todoist
Both are productivity tools. Here is what separates them.
What Raycast is
Raycast is a keyboard-driven launcher that bundles productivity commands and accepts third-party extensions. The commands that ship with it cover clipboard history, snippets, quicklinks, window management, a calculator, file search and an emoji picker. Applications are published for macOS, Windows and iOS, with the Windows build requiring Windows 10 version 21H2 or later, or Windows 11. Extensions that contain no native code run on Windows and macOS without modification. Raycast AI sits behind a paid subscription and is not part of the Free plan. It exposes models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral, Perplexity, DeepSeek and xAI through a single interface, and it can also run local models through Ollama or use your own API key for OpenAI, Anthropic and Google. Quick AI answers a query in a floating window opened by one hotkey and can search the web as part of the answer. AI Extensions go further, letting a natural language instruction drive third-party applications such as Linear and Slack. The Free plan allows up to 30 shared snippets, 30 shared quicklinks and 5 shared commands, keeps clipboard history for three months and caps Raycast Notes at five notes. Pro costs $10 per month billed monthly, or $8 billed annually, a 20 percent reduction. It removes both the clipboard history retention limit and the Notes limit, and adds cloud sync, dictation, custom themes, a translator and custom window management commands. An Advanced AI add-on costs a further $8 per month. For teams, the free tier costs nothing per user and places no cap on the number of members. Teams Pro is $12 per user per month billed annually, or $15 billed monthly, lifts the caps on shared snippets, quicklinks and commands, and adds custom extensions along with developer tooling. The Advanced AI add-on is $8 per user per month on top of that. Enterprise is quoted rather than list priced and adds SAML, SCIM, domain capture, two factor enforcement, an extension allow list and an IP allow list, plus an AI control centre with an organisation-wide AI toggle, an AI provider allow list and support for a custom AI provider.
What Todoist is
Todoist is a task manager for keeping personal and shared to-do lists. Tasks go in through Quick Add, which reads natural language to set due dates, recurring dates and reminders, so a line of plain text becomes a scheduled task. Projects can be viewed as a list, a board or a calendar, and completed tasks are scored through a points system called Todoist Karma. A paid plan is tied to the account rather than to a single device, and there are more than 80 integrations with other software. The free Beginner plan allows 5 personal projects with up to 5 people in each, 3 custom filters, file uploads up to 5 MB, 4 themes and 7 days of activity history. Those limits are what a paid plan lifts. Pro raises personal projects to 300, custom filters to 150 and themes to 8, and keeps full activity history rather than seven days of it. For UK customers it costs 7 GBP a month or 60 GBP a year, with the same numbers in euros, and 7 USD a month or 60 USD a year in dollars, which works out at 5 USD a month on the annual plan. A 7-day free trial is available. Business is the team plan. It costs 10 USD per user a month billed monthly or 8 USD per user a month billed yearly, which is 96 USD per user per year; euro customers pay 10 EUR monthly or 96 EUR a year. It allows up to 500 team projects, 1,000 project folders, up to 250 people in a single team project and file uploads up to 100 MB, with room for 1,000 team members and 1,000 guests. The trial runs 14 days. Payment is by Visa, Mastercard or Amex card, through App Store or Google Play billing, or by SEPA in Europe on request. Yearly plans are refundable within 30 days of purchase or renewal, monthly subscriptions are not.
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