Raycast

AI at Your Fingertips: Quick AI and Smart Extensions

Raycast's Quick AI lives just a hotkey away, offering instant access to natural language queries and live web search with inline citations.Need to summarize a webpage, solve a coding issue, or generate creative ideas? Simply invoke Quick AI, ask away, and receive context-aware answers—no browser required.

AI Extensions allow you to run commands like:

• "Move all PDFs to Trash"
• "What's my schedule today?"
• "Block my calendar from 4 PM"
• "Generate a cat image eating pizza"

These features bring contextual AI interaction directly into your everyday workflows.

Built-In AI Chat: Multi-Model Support Without the Hassle

With Pro subscription, Raycast unlocks AI Chat powered by top-tier models such as GPT‑4, Claude 3, and Perplexity

Chat about everything—from drafting emails to explaining code snippets—with contextual awareness, resizable windows, and floating attachment support

Custom AI Commands: Tailored to Your Workflow

Raycast lets you create custom AI-powered commands—no coding required. Define prompts like:

• Email Writer: Draft responses from bullet points
• Research Assistant: Structure topics quickly
• YouTube Summaries, LinkedIn Post Analyzers, and more

Combine user-defined arguments, configure hotkeys, and watch repetitive tasks become automated with precision—supercharging your workflow.

Seamless macOS Integration

More than an AI tool, Raycast empowers you to control your Mac at a keystroke:

• Launch applications, files, and bookmarks
• Resize and manage windows
• Manage your clipboard history—now unlimited with Pro
• Perform calculations, translate text, execute scripts, control music, and more

As one user noted, the AI spell/grammar checker alone is "life‑changing"

Cloud Sync & Cross-Device Consistency

With Raycast Pro, your snippets, hotkeys, quick links, themes, extensions, and AI chats sync seamlessly across devices

Stay consistently productive, whether on Mac desktop or mobile companion apps.

Custom Themes & Personalized UI

Express yourself through custom themes. Use Theme Studio to craft UI styles and share them with the community—or choose from pre-made options Raycast adapts not just functionally, but visually to your taste.

Pro Security & Privacy Commitment

Raycast’s AI respects your privacy:

• Triggers only when you initiate AI tools
• Does not store or use your input to train models
• Offers full transparency, opt-in feedback, and compliance with industry security standards

Your data stays secure and strictly under your control.

Vibrant Extension Ecosystem

With over 1,000 community-built extensions, Raycast offers integrations for Slack, Notion, GitHub, Jira, Figma, and more. Developers can build in JavaScript, TypeScript, Go, Rust, Swift to connect custom workflows into a single pane of productivity.

iOS & Windows: Expanding the Reach

Raycast is expanding beyond macOS. The iOS version, now available, features a companion AI chatbot, Raycast Notes, Quicklinks, and snippets. It's synced, usable on-the-go, and poised to broaden productivity across mobile.

Raycast’s Windows beta is underway, aiming to replicate features like app control and AI chat on Windows 10/11.

Why Developers and Power Users Swear by Raycast

Lightning-Fast Navigation

Launch apps, files, and tasks instantly via keystrokes—an upgraded Spotlight alternative.

Task Automation & Script Integration

Lean on scripts, conversions, download management, DNS flushing, date/time calculations, and even “Celebrate with Confetti” UI .

Smart Clipboard & Snippets

A deep clipboard history, snippet management with placeholders, and intuitive Quicklinks—build shortcuts that build productivity .

Developer-Centric Workflow

Seamless access to GitHub, Linear, Figma, support for code analysis, explanations, and AI-enhanced content generation: all from within one tool .