Changelog

🎨 Color Detection

Now you can enter color values in the Root Search to see a preview. An action lets you quickly copy it in other formats, such as HEX, HSL, RGB, NSColor and so on. Try it out: #FF6363.

🤖 Improvements for Raycast AI Beta

Raycast AI unlocks the power of AI on your Mac. We’ve been working with our beta users to improve the experience over the last few weeks. Today, we are releasing three new features, plus some minor fixes. Join the waitlist to supercharge your productivity.

Separate Window

You can now open Raycast AI in a separate, resizable window that stays on top of other apps. This makes it the perfect companion for your workday. To enable the separate window, go to Raycast Settings → Extensions → Raycast AI.

💡 Pro tip: Assign a global hotkey to the “Ask AI” command to quickly focus the chat.

History

Chats are saved in history, so you can pick up where you left off. For example, writing your next hit iOS app. To access previous conversations, press ⌘ + P in the Ask AI command. To start a new one, press ⌘ + N.

Quick Paste/Insert

AI Commands can paste or insert their AI-generated text directly into the frontmost application. To replace your selected text, just press ⌘ + ↵ when launching an AI Command. Or, press ⌥ + ↵ to insert the generated text below the selection.

✨ New

• File Search: Additional applications are shown in the Open With action.
• Script Command Deeplinks: Launch any script command from outside of Raycast using Deeplinks: raycast://script-command/<slugified-file-name-without-extension>. Learn more in the manual.

💎 Improvements

• AI: Use search term as default instruction for ad-hoc AI Commands.
• AI: Add separator when copying formatted chat.
• AI: Improve behavior of Regenerate Response action.
• AI: Add action to copy code blocks of the last response.
• Clipboard History: Add save action for text and images.
• Dictionary: Permit customizing default action.
• Root Search: Parallels apps are now automatically discovered and can be opened in the respective VM.

🐞 Fixes

• AI: Fix missing actions for favorites in Root Search.
• AI: Fix an issue with selection being reset when text is generating
• Dictionary: Remove extra characters in the word list.
• Snippets: Support placeholders in curly brackets.

🪄 Raycast AI Beta - Magic at Your Fingertips

Unlock the power of AI anywhere on your Mac. Write smarter, code faster, answer questions quicker, and do so much more. Today, we're opening up early access for the next generation of Raycast - a productivity tool for professionals that uses AI to help you get more done in less time.

Sign up for our waitlist and watch this video to get a sneak peek of Raycast AI.

💎 Improvements

• Pop to Root Search: Added 120 and 180 seconds intervals.
• Calendar: You can now join Amazon Chime video meetings right from Raycast.
• Calendar: You can now join Slack Huddle video meetings right from Raycast.
• Markdown: Inline code blocks now look nicer. Like this (if you read this changelog in the app).
• Flight Tracker: You can now enable/disable Flight Tracker detection in settings. You can find it in Raycast Preferences → Extensions → Calculator
• Flight Tracker: A plane icon will now be displayed to indicate a flight number was detected and flight data is being loaded.

🐞 Fixes

• Fixed a bug with Flight Tracker being displayed for multiplications which use the letter “x” as the operator.
• Fixed a bug that caused errors in the store if more than 140 extensions were installed.

🖇️ Deeplinks

A convenient way to launch any command inside Raycast from an URL scheme.

Whether you want to launch a command from your own extension, the Calculator History, or the Clipboard History, you can easily do so using Deeplinks. The format is easy to remember, making it easy for you to use Deeplinks to your advantage.

raycast://extensions/<author-or-owner>/<extension-name>/<command-name>

You can read more about how to use Deeplinks here.

💎 Improvements

• Preferences: Add a preference to replace ⌃⌥⌘⇧ by ✦ (hyper key).
• Flight Tracker: Don’t show it when the flight number matches aliases, Quicklinks names and other titles for your search results.
• Snippets: Add an action to delete all local snippets.
• Snippets: The - and _ characters are no longer treated as delimiters when using the After Delimiter expansion options. So they can safely be used in snippet keywords.
• AppUpdates: Improved permissions handling for users working on non-admin accounts.
• File Search: The authorisation prompt should no longer appear after denying permissions. It can also be manually dismissed in cases where the permission is denied outside of Raycast.

🐞 Fixes

• Fixed a bug in Switch Windows command where closed apps would still be listed.

✈️ Flight Tracker

Flight tracking is now one of the core capabilities of Raycast. A lot like quickly getting the answer to a calculation or conversion question, enter any flight code in Raycast (e.g. DL234, KL1620 or LH962) search bar to immediately get real-time information about that flight, including up-to-date information on departure and arrival times, flight status, and when in flight, the approximate position of the plane in a new map view.

✨ New

• Added Toggle Stage Manager command

💎 Improvements

• Calendar: You can now join Cal.com video meetings right from Raycast
• Raycast will now only offer to open Google Meet links in a special browser if the default browser is not already based on Chromium.
• Bottom-left menu: You can now click on the name of any command in the bottom-left of the Raycast window to quickly access a few links (like accessing the preferences of the command, viewing the README of an extension, etc.)
• App Uninstaller: Made the Uninstall Application action available for running applications. The running application gets quit before uninstalling it.

🐞 Fixes

• Window Management: Fixed a bug where the Stage Manager wasn’t respected if only one window was open
• Clipboard History: Fixed a bug where pasting entries from the history didn’t work in 1Password, Adobe InDesign, and other applications
• Calculator History: Fixed an issue where some shortcuts wouldn’t work when the action panel was open
• Date Picker: Fixed an issue where it would show wrong suggestions when typing the day of the week
• Manage Quicklinks: Metadata now updates correctly after editing a quicklink.
• File Search: Fixed an issue where the Authorization prompt would sometimes appear even though authorization was already granted.
• Fixed an issue where Ctrl + H/L wouldn’t work in grid views when Vim navigation style is enabled
• Made the animation of the Toggle Bounce Animation command slower on small displays
• Fixed a 1px border on the top of screenshots taken with the built-in screenshot tool

🎁 Meet your Raycast Wrapped

Take a glance at your productivity over the past year, from launching Raycast, to your use of Extensions and Applications, and visualize your developer stats and time spent in meetings.

Get a better understanding of how you’ve used Raycast, broken down by the hour, what features you use the most, and maybe some features you’re missing out on.

Post a snapshot of your stats and summary by clicking Copy as Image in each section, then paste your media to share.

Disclaimer: Most of the data displayed is stored locally, and Raycast does not have access to it. If you moved between machines during the year, some of the data might have been lost. If you’ve used Raycast for less than 30 days, you will not have enough data to be displayed – but there’s always next year!

✨ New

• Proxy and Certificates Preferences: Under Raycast Advanced Preferences, you’ll find new preferences for using the internet proxy settings from your system, and for using certificates from the system keychain or a custom location. Most of our existing extensions are already compatible with proxies, with the rest being updated soon. So if you’re behind a corporate proxy or need to use custom certificates and previously had network issues with extensions, try enabling the new settings.
• Fallback commands: All commands from extensions can now be used as fallback commands!

💎 Improvements

• System Settings are now grouped separately from Applications under the Extensions tab in Raycast Settings
• Script Commands: Allow scripts with multiple arguments to be used as fallback commands.
• Linear, Asana and Hacker News: These three bundled extensions are now open source. The new versions are powered by our API and have more features. You can find them in the Store.

🐞 Fixes

• Fixed the File Search Copy action appending a . to the folder’s name
• Snippets should now expand in Jetbrains products as expected
• Clipboard History items now displays the correct name application name on every launch

⌨️ macOS Shortcuts Improvements

macOS Shortcuts are now more deeply integrated inside Raycast! Their custom icons as well as their folder will be shown in Raycast - and if a shortcut accepts an argument, you will be able to input it right there.

Important: Requires accessibility permission. Raycast will prompt it in the root search or when running any shortcut.

💎 Improvements

• Calculator History: Improved icons for more calculation types and added actions to copy question or put it in the search bar.
• Export Settings & Data: You can now edit and view the export password in the command’s preferences.
• Clipboard: New action to copy formatted JSON in case the previously copied text was a valid JSON.

🐞 Fixes

• Fixed high CPU usage bug when users listen for Script Commands in a rapidly changing parent folder (e.g. ~).
• Fixed a memory leak when viewing images in commands which use the grid view.
• Snippets: Fixed issues with keyword expansion in some apps
• Preferences: You can now edit the alias or hotkey of “Next/Previous Display” window management commands even when no external monitor is connected
• Calculator: Fixed random issues in math calculations for some users

🚴 Cycle through Windows

Some Window Management commands got a new superpower. If you repeatedly execute the left, right, top, or bottom half, it will cycle through different sizes. By default, it cycles through ½, ⅔, and ⅓. You can change it to cycle through adjacent displays or display the behavior on the preferences of the Window Management extension.

🔢 Calculator History

Ever wanted to peek into your recent calculations? With the new “Calculator History” command, you can find everything you calculate in Raycast. You can also pin items to keep an eye on changing currency rates or countdown to your favorite event.

✨ New

• Calculator now supports automatic conversions for most commonly used units, like meters to feet or kilograms to pounds and vice versa.

💎 Improvements

• Window Management: Respect Stage Manager when present.
• Screenshots: New Paste Recent Screenshot command to paste the recent screenshot to the frontmost application.
• Root Search: Application names should be correctly localized even if Spotlight indexing is disabled.
• Browser Bookmarks: Search supports CJK languages.

🐞 Fixes

• My Schedule: Fixed an issue where authuser param would be missing in Google Meet URLs
• Snippets: Cursor placeholder position is now calculated correctly when the snippet contains emoji or other multi-byte characters.
• Fixed a crash that could happen when pasting from the clipboard history, emoji picker or snippets with universal clipboard enabled
• Fixed an issue where hotkeys would be registered incorrectly when using the keypad with an AZERTY keyboard layout.
• Fixed an issue where the main window sometimes appeared docked in Stage Manager.
• Fixed an issue which prevented editing alias for some commands in Preferences.
• Fixed an issue where characters could get dropped when opening commands which use the grid view.

🎹 Double-Tap Hotkeys

This one is for all the keyboard aficionados: You can now use double-tap hotkeys in Raycast! Tap a modifier key twice to toggle Raycast, launch apps, and open commands or quicklinks. Supported modifiers are ⌘, ⌥, ⌃, and ⇧. Set the hotkeys via the Raycast preferences.

✨ New

• File Search: You can now move, copy and duplicate files using the action panel. Hit ⌘ + K on a selected file and search for the “Move to…”, “Copy to…” or “Duplicate” action.
• Snippets: You can now specify a sound to play when expanding a snippet. Select a sound via the Snippets extension preferences.

💎 Improvements

• App Updates: Improved insufficient permissions handling
• Root Search: Newly installed apps and extensions are up-ranked and get suggested
• Ventura Settings: Improved compatibility with settings in Ventura, including support for localization

🔗 Link Previews

Links got visual in Raycast! Copied URLs preview their social card image in the Clipboard History and Manage Quicklinks commands. The preview makes finding what you’re looking for more straightforward, and any additional information got moved below the image.

✨ New

• Window Management: New commands to resize a window to the top or bottom third or two-thirds.

💎 Improvements

• Window Management: Windows that are moved between displays now respect the previous aspect ratio. The behavior can be disabled in the preferences of the Previous/Next Display commands.
• Window Management: Added a new preference on the Move Left/Right/Top/Bottom commands to center the window horizontally/vertically. The preference is turned on by default to keep the previous behavior.
• Preferences: The error toast that is shown when an alias is used by another command now shows the name of the command to resolve the conflict.
• AppUpdates: Improved insufficient permissions recovery process

🐞 Fixes

• Paste: Added a workaround to avoid duplicate content when using Direct Paste into the Messages app.
• Tag Editor: Now adjusts height correctly when loading initial content.
• Export: Add some missing preferences to rayconfig export.
• Search: Finder aliases are now followed when indexing apps.
• Store: Fixed an issue where the view would sometimes jump to the top when scrolling.
• Window Management: Made moving and resizing Chrome windows fast again.

🔎 Fuzzy Search

Having a more flexible search has been one of the most requested features from our community for a long time and, in this release, we are excited to bring “Fuzzy Matching” to the Root Search.

You can now match applications, extensions, or scripts by writing any of their letters independently of their position in the result’s title, subtitle, keywords, or alias. For example: ftime for “Facetime”, msg for “Messages”, or utub vid for the “Search Youtube Videos” command.

⚡ Pro tip: Go to the Advanced Raycast Preferences to tweak the Root Search Sensitivity. The sensitivity controls the amount of matching results.

🧮 Improved Calculator

The performance and functionality of the calculator got improved under the hood. It now supports more scientific units, statistical calculations, and better date handling with natural text. You can find more about what the calculator can do you here.

✨ New

• Fuzzy Search is now the search algorithm used in Root Search.
• Search Sensitivity Levels, controlling the amount of suggested results, can be found in Advanced Raycast Preferences.

💎 Improvements

• Root Search: Ranking of elements automatically accounts for how often you open every element and whether you have written a previously triggered search term (or a prefix of it).
• Root Search: Search index is partially rebuilt after each triggered search result.
• You can now disable the Show events in menu bar preference by dragging the Calendar Events Menu Bar Extra out of the menu bar while holding down ⌘.
• Dictionary Extension: Added Recent Words section when the search term is empty containing the list of recently opened words.
• Drag and Drop: You can now close the window while dragging a screenshot or a file out of Raycast. Simply hold down the ⌥ key while dragging. If you keep the key pressed while dropping the content, Raycast opens again. This makes it convenient to drag multiple items in a row.
• Quicklinks: The link’s domain is now displayed in the subtitle and will be matched when searching for Quicklinks.
• Search Snippets: Snippets are now sorted by last used date.
• Search Emoji: Added a new Save as Snippet action.
• macOS 13 beta: Improved compatibility with macOS 13 Ventura beta. Including integration with the new System Settings.

🐞 Fixes

• Preferences: The deprecated toggle “Find apps and prefs via Spotlight” has been removed.
• Lightsaber: We have temporarily removed the Lightsaber command.