Raycast is a productivity tool that offers a variety of features to enhance efficiency. It includes a store for extensions, the ability to customize themes, and features like always-on ChatGPT and cloud sync. Raycast also offers options for teams, including shared commands, quicklinks, and snippets. The tool is designed to be fast, lightweight, and secure, and is available for download on macOS.
Raycast
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Example of what Raycast looks like
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.
One up your productivity
On top of the core Raycast Extensions already built in, you can install Extensions built by Developers from the community. Everything you’ve asked for, in one place. Search and browse Extensions for your tools, actions and more.
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Lightweight and snappy
Designed to be seamless and instant. View an Extension and hit ↵ to simply install it in milliseconds.
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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.
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Put the Proin Productivity
Turn Pro to harness the power of AI, make Raycast your own with custom themes, keep your Macs in sync and more.
An example Raycast window showing a grid of fictional team members
An example Raycast window showing a grid of fictional team members
Always-on ChatGPT
Ask anything, anytime, anywhere. Stuck while programming? Need some copy? Or just have a question - Ask AI.
Cloud Sync
Keep everything safe and updated across your Macs. Perfect to switch between personal and work setup.
Custom Themes & more
Make Raycast your own with gorgeous pre-made themes or design your own and share it with the community.
Your Raycast.Your playground.
Productivity is unique to everyone. Personalization is key. Extend Raycast the way you want to, and build tools for you and your team with the API.
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Build what you’ve always wanted
Start building your perfect tools with the Raycast API, and streamline your workflows. Simply create Extensions with ease and publish directly to the Raycast Store seamlessly.
Get started with the integrated developer tools in Raycast and build your first extension in no time.
Open source community
Build in the open and collaborate with other Developers on yours and their Extensions. Contribute as you’d like, and help others by building on top of existing Extensions.
- Imthath reported a bug
- Imthath added the Dash extension
- Petr reported a bug
- Imthath added a feature request
- Petr added the Search Recent Projects extension
Be part of the story
We listen to our community and build Raycast in collaboration with developers, to build the best product and developer experience across the platform.
Raycast for Teams
Keep your team communicating efficiently and building faster with a shared space in Raycast.
Save time on everyday tasks
Raycast isn’t just a tool for individuals. It’s also a tool, designed for sharing. From custom extensions, to Quicklinks and Snippets.
What your team needs to get done, we offer an fabulously rich toolkit to do it swiftly, and at ease with your whole organization in harmony.
An example Raycast window showing a grid of fictional team members
Shared Commands
Use React and TypeScript to build custom tooling that unlocks teams within your organization to do their best work, at speed. Share them in your private extension store.
Shared Quicklinks
Effortlessly share common links with your team, such as project documentation in Notion, GitHub repos, Linear projects, and data dashboards - all with Quicklinks.
Shared Snippets
Create consistency with saved support responses, common text such as emails or addresses, and use dynamic placeholders for smart keyword expansion.
Learn about developing for teams
Productivity,levelled up.
Make Raycast your own, using the bundle of features available from day one.
Script Commands
Write scripts in your favorite programming language to connect to web APIs, control apps, tools, and more.
Check out more than 600 scripts from the community
Shortcuts
Search and run your macOS Shortcuts directly from Raycast. Keeping everything in one place for fast access.
Search Files
Search for files and folders the simple way, view metadata, and perform common actions.
System Commands
Control your Mac with over 20 system commands built in. From turning up or down volume, to emptying your trash, sleep or restarting your system, and much more.
Knight Rider. A shadowy flight into the dangerous world of a man who does not exist. "And to our future. No matter who it may take us up against or where."
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Floating Notes
Floating Notes are a quick way to jot down a thought while working on something else. Always handy when you need it.
Quicklinks
Open links in the browser, folders in the terminal or projects in any text editor. And search the web much more efficiently.
Use queries to perform searches on Google, Dribbble or other websites, like below.
Calculator
Solve simple math expressions, convert units, check timezones, calculate differences between days, months, and years, and do much more in natural language. Copy the answer to your clipboard to carry on with what you were doing before.
time in dubai + 2 hours
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time in dubai + 2 hours
1:42 AM, GMT+4
03:42
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Use "time in dubai + 2 hours" with...
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Window Management
Clean up your window mess with handy commands for organizing your desktop on the fly and resizing app windows.
Launch Apps
Launch and switch app windows with just a few keystrokes. Quit running ones, copy details, search menu items and more.
Clipboard History
Search for text, images, files, links and colors that you copied earlier and paste it again. Pin your frequently used items to access them quicker.
Snippets
Write faster by inserting frequently typed text such as canned emails, code pieces and more. Use keywords to auto-expand snippets in-place.
My Schedule
Never miss another meeting. Join Zoom, Google Meet, Around meetings, and more, without digging around for a link and jump straight in to your calls. Check your upcoming schedule, block focus time or get an overview of your daily plan.
More focus, less clutter.
Keep your workspace centralized, clean and tidy. Engineered with performance and your privacy in mind.
Security by default, always
Everything is stored encrypted on your local disk, and nothing sensitive is tracked. You and your personal data stay anonymous.
Make it your own, tailor it to you
Enable the built-in extensions for an initial productivity boost. Use script commands and our API to build custom extensions to optimize your workflow.
Learn once, remember forever
Inspired by the command line interface, your tools are unified as commands, and follow the same structure to make you more productive.
Perform tasks in a matter of seconds
Raycast is built natively to be faster, lightweight, and efficient. Every action is optimized for speed and accessibility.
Ready for take-off?
Download the Raycast app and start taking your productivity to new heights.
or$ brew install --cask raycast
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Stay up to date
We’d love to stay connected with you. If the feeling’s mutual, follow @raycastapp on Twitter for the latest news and updates.
Help shape the product Lots of the best and brightest ideas come from you. Join our Slack Community to help create the future of Raycast.