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Raycast

A launcher that replaced Spotlight and then replaced half your menu bar.

ProductivityFreemium
11 votes

About Raycast

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.

Raycast interface

Key features

  • Runs commands from the keyboard in a launcher that accepts third party extensions.
  • Includes clipboard history, snippets, quicklinks, window management, a calculator, file search and an emoji picker.
  • Answers a query in a floating window opened by one hotkey, searching the web as part of the answer.
  • Exposes models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral, Perplexity, DeepSeek and xAI through one interface.
  • Runs local models through Ollama.
  • Accepts your own API key for OpenAI, Anthropic and Google.
  • Drives third party applications such as Linear and Slack from a natural language instruction.
  • Ships applications for macOS, Windows and iOS.
  • Runs extensions containing no native code on both Windows and macOS without modification.
  • Adds cloud sync, dictation, custom themes, a translator and custom window management commands on Pro.
  • Lifts the caps on shared snippets, shared quicklinks and shared commands on Teams Pro.
  • Adds SAML, SCIM, domain capture, two factor enforcement and extension and IP allow lists on Enterprise.
  • Controls AI across an organisation on Enterprise with a provider allow list and a custom provider.
  • Gates Raycast AI behind Pro, priced at $10 per month or $8 per month billed annually.

What people use it for

  • Digging something you copied days ago back out of clipboard history.
  • Asking a question and reading the answer without leaving the window you are working in.
  • Creating a Linear issue by typing a plain English instruction instead of opening Linear.
  • Running the same keyboard workflow on a Windows machine and a Mac.
  • Keeping a prompt on your own machine by pointing Raycast at a local Ollama model.
  • Sharing one set of snippets so a team sends the same wording every time.

Key facts

Key facts about Raycast
CategoryProductivity
PricingFreemium
Free tierYes
Upvotes11
Listed22 August 2026

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