Changelog

In this week's release, we've made a bunch of updates to Raycast Notes, some of which have been highly requested!

Your notes can now support images, including gifs! Drag and drop them onto your notes, click and drag to re-order them, and even reference external image sources in markdown. They all display the way you'd expect them to. We’ve also added the ability to re-order list items via drag and drop.

And while we're here, we've also decided to lift the 5 note limit on the free plan. This means that everyone can now create as many notes as needed.

✨ New

• AI Chat: Added support for searching and mentioning items from compatible AI Extensions directly from the @ menu, bringing their content into the conversation
• Games: Added an Auto HDR setting that turns HDR on while a game is in front and restores it afterwards
• Notes: You can now add images to notes
• Notes: Free plan now gets unlimited notes
• System Actions: Added an Auto Dark Mode command that switches Windows between light and dark modes at sunrise and sunset, using your location or a city you choose
• System Actions: Seek Forward 10 Seconds and Seek Backward 10 Seconds are now available to skip through whatever is playing

💎 Improvements

• AI: Usage meters now warn in orange and red as you approach the limit
• AI Chat: Table headers now stay visible while scrolling through long tables
• AI Chat: Improved attachment layout and keyboard tab order in composer
• AI Chat: Improved ctrl+P search and show chat statuses while browsing
• AI Chat: Long chats now open, scroll, and stream replies faster while using less memory
• Dictation: Post-processing improvements to reduce unwanted em dashes and unexpected whitespace
• Notes: You can now drag and drop list items
• Notes: Clicking a checkbox while holding ctrl will also complete its children
• Search: Improved performance of translation queries
• System: Improved performance under disk and memory pressure on systems with 4 GB and 8 GB of RAM

🐞 Fixes

• Action Panel: Fixed searching extension actions by their keywords or section title
• AI: Added the same reasoning effort shortcut to model preference
• AI Chat: Fixed multiple sign-in windows opening when using several tools from the same extension
• Emoji Picker: Fixed an issue where the empty state would show whilst loading AI suggestions
• Extensions: Fixed typing freezes when filtering lists that contain items with very long text
• Focus: Fixed an issue where Focus could interfere with typing in a browser's address bar while checking the page URL
• Import: Fixed an issue where unknown icons imported from v1 could mismatch and show no icon
• MCP: Fixed connection timeouts with servers that use streaming HTTP responses
• Quicklinks: Fixed copying a personal Quicklink not updating its usage count
• Snippets & Quicklinks: Fixed stale dynamic placeholder values when copying Quicklinks or copying and pasting snippets
• System: Fixed windows flashing or blinking when Windows switches between light and dark theme
• System: Fixed gray backgrounds appearing in Raycast windows after a theme change
• UI: Fixed a regression preventing compact mode users from seeing toasts

This update brings new commands, useful improvements, and plenty of fixes across Raycast. Send Notes directly to AI Chat, restart the frontmost app with a new command, and enjoy a more polished AI Chat experience. Search performance is improved by 50% in Root Search and menus, while Search Screenshots is 3× faster and uses 80% less memory.

✨ New

• AI Commands: Added a Default option to the model picker, so commands follow your default AI Command model. They also show the default reasoning effort
• Notes: Added a Send to AI Chat action to Search Notes and the Notes window. Press Ctrl + J to attach the note to AI Chat
• Restart Frontmost App: New command that quits and reopens the app you're currently using

💎 Improvements

• Action Panel: Improved search ranking by prioritizing complete word matches
• AI Chat: Wide tables can now go past the usual text width to show more columns, while staying lined up with the text and keeping each column readable
• AI Chat: Long responses render more smoothly while they're streaming in
• AI Chat: Improved Mermaid diagram loading and added error details when a diagram couldn’t be rendered
• AI Chat: Improved readability and markdown rendering
• AI Chat: Commands sent to AI Chat (such as Send to AI Chat or Dictation) now respect the Start New Chat setting
• AI: Newly installed Extension-provided models are now searchable in model pickers
• Manage Bluetooth Devices: AirPods battery levels now stay up to date as the device reports them
• MCP: Added connection error details to Manage MCP Servers
• Search: Improved performance (50% faster) and reduced memory overhead in Root Search and menu searches
• Search Screenshots: Reduced memory usage when browsing images (3x faster and 80% less memory usage)
• Settings: Improved command settings, including descriptions, hotkeys, and aliases
• Settings: Moved Screen Awareness into a submenu of the AI settings tab
• UI: Improved handling of toast/hud dismissal, fixing recurring issue of toast/hud reappearing after dismissal
• UI: Added support for pending + progress display in HUDs
• UI: HUDs and in-window toasts can now be dismissed

🐞 Fixes

• AI Chat: Fixed an issue where AI requests used your region language instead of your OS display language
• AI Chat: Fixed deleting the open chat leaving nothing selected. The selection now moves to a nearby chat, like it did in the old window
• Applications: Fixed an issue where Riot and itch.io game discovery could keep their databases locked afterwards
• Extensions: Fixed tinted images failing to load from some websites
• Extensions: Fixed an issue where number hotkeys was taking priority over command action hotkeys
• Extensions: Fixed grid images appearing off-centre or clipped at larger interface sizes
• Extensions: Fixed grid item sizes being ignored in extensions using the legacy sizing option
• Extensions: Fixed an issue where dropdown items in an extension's search bar ignored their keywords when you typed to filter them
• Extensions: Fixed an issue where the blinking text cursor showed up in screenshots taken with Window Capture
• File Search: Fixed an issue where opening a folder failed when the custom file explorer you picked was no longer installed. Raycast now falls back to the default
• General: Fixed an issue where a window could occasionally fail to load, by retrying its initialization
• Manage Wi-Fi Connections: Fixed missing keyboard shortcuts on some Wi-Fi actions
• Manage Wi-Fi Connections: Fixed an issue where a connection that succeeded right at the timeout was reported as failed
• MCP: Fixed Microsoft 365 sign-in failures
• MCP: Fixed sign-in after initially connecting to a server without authentication
• MCP: Fixed connections to older servers when connection discovery timed out
• MCP: Fixed repeated reconnects during Cloud Sync
• Notes: Fixed >> and << turning into » and «, which broke snippets using those keywords
• Store: Fixed commands of disabled extensions still showing up and running from the Store
• UI: Fixed an issue where some toasts could remain visibly stale
• UI: Fixed an issue where picking the Raycast glyph for some custom commands (ai, dictation, etc) would result in an empty tile icon without glyph

This update is about speed. File Search returns results up to 6× faster and handles typos much better, Root Search and other lists scroll smoother than ever, and extensions install and update about 4× faster on average. Raycast also starts with about 20% less memory.

✨ New

• AI Skills: Browse installed extension skills in AI settings
• Emoji & Symbols: Added Greek letters
• Notes: Cmd+click on a parent todo now toggles all nested todos

💎 Improvements

• AI Chat: Added a primary action setting to Send Window and Send Element to AI
• AI Chat: Added the New Project keyboard shortcut to button tooltips and made project creation action names consistent
• AI Chat: Clarified when you’ve reached the weekly Claude Fable usage limit
• AI Chat: Images you attach when using local models now stay on your device when Cloud Sync or AI Chat History sync is turned off
• AI Chat: Made mention labels clearer by distinguishing skills and MCP tools
• AI Chat: Reduced the data sent at the start of a chat by loading extension tools more selectively
• Clipboard History: Improved image & file icons
• Core: Improved performance all over the application, which should fix issues such as when Raycast is slow to show up after being idle for a while
• Core: Raycast now recovers on its own when the WebView2 browser process crashes or is killed
• Custom Providers: Numeric provider API keys are now kept exactly as written, and authentication failures are explained better when they occur
• Dictation: Settings are now organised better, making it easier to find exactly what you’re looking for
• Extensions: Installs and updates are about 4× faster on average, and up to 30× faster
• File Search: Results show up to 6× faster, slow searches are gone, and typos are handled much better
• Lighter at startup: Raycast uses about 20% less memory at launch and starts faster
• Proxy: Raycast now honors HTTP_PROXY, HTTPS_PROXY and NO_PROXY for all its traffic.
• Smoother scrolling: Root Search and other lists scroll up to 2× faster
• Root Search: Commands are grouped by extension when search field is empty

🐞 Fixes

• AI Chat: Agents you turn off in Settings no longer appear in the composer
• AI Chat: Fixed archived chats also appearing in their project’s sidebar section
• AI Chat: Fixed Claude subscription models compacting too early
• AI Chat: Fixed image generation being unavailable with Ollama and extension models
• AI Chat: Fixed mention pills getting lost when you copy and paste them inside the composer
• AI Chat: Fixed missing skill names when restoring chat history
• AI Chat: Fixed new chats sending the wrong model when the saved model is unavailable
• AI Chat: Fixed pasting into the composer not working when it isn’t focused
• AI Chat: Fixed pressing Return not sending messages containing paths starting with /
• AI Chat: Fixed sidebar actions not responding while peeking at the sidebar
• AI Chat: Fixed the window freezing during streaming of very long lists
• AI Chat: Pasting a link copied from Edge's address bar into the composer now inserts the URL rather than the page title
• AI Chat: Removed a misplaced loading indicator from the sidebar
• AI Chat: Show a subscription prompt when sending a message while signed out, instead of showing a send error
• Apps: Fixed apps launched from Raycast showing up under Raycast in Task Manager and running inside Raycast's package sandbox
• Billing: Fixed a "Subtotal" typo on the billing interval update page
• Calendar: Fixed the menu bar item disappearing when an event title was cut off mid-emoji.
• Capture Window: Fixed custom wallpaper accepting non-image files
• Clipboard History: Fixed Paste Sequentially repeating multi-category clipboard entries
• Extensions: Fixed ghost hotkeys for removed extension commands
• Extensions: Fixed unnecessary scroll jumps while navigating lists and grids
• File Index: Fixed changes made while Raycast was closed sometimes not being picked up on launch
• File Search: Fixed the “Indexing Files…” row sometimes spinning forever after launch
• General: Fixed Show in File Explorer sometimes doing nothing
• General: Fixed the missing Raycast version in database error alerts
• Manage Bluetooth Devices: Fixed Bluetooth commands showing on PCs without a Bluetooth adapter, and turning Bluetooth on or off sometimes failing
• Manage Wi-Fi Connections: Fixed Wi-Fi commands showing on PCs without a Wi-Fi adapter, and show what to do when Windows' WLAN AutoConfig service is stopped instead of a generic error
• Menu Bar: Items that hide themselves stay hidden after a restart.
• Open Camera: Fixed Open Camera popping back to root while the preview is visible
• Quick AI: Fixed an issue where the action bar would sometimes appear too high in authentication views
• Quick AI: Fixed the missing Regenerate with Model action
• Quicklinks: Fixed "Invalid URL" being shown when {selection} could not be resolved
• Root Search: Fixed an issue affecting compact mode users where alias would sometimes not activate after pressing space
• Script Commands: Fixed inline scripts showing stale output after an error
• Script Commands: Fixed optional argument prompts being skipped when launching from a hotkey
• Settings: Fixed signed-in accounts without a display name incorrectly showing “Not Signed In”
• Translator: Fixed an issue where swapping language when the translation is loading would clear the input
• UI: Fixed an issue in the toast action panel where too much space was left below the description when no actions are present
• Window Management: Fixed Save Current Layout, Switch Windows and other window commands missing Chrome windows from profiles that have no desktop shortcut
• Window Management: Fixed window commands failing with "Focused window is not on a valid desktop" on windows pinned to all desktops. These windows now stay pinned after a command moves them
• Window Management: Ignored hotkeys for missing layouts and custom commands

Five new commands put everyday settings a few keystrokes away. Manage networks and devices with WiFi and Bluetooth, switch WiFi or Energy Saver on and off with Toggle WiFi and Toggle Energy Saver, and block or restore camera access across apps with Toggle Camera Mute. Assign hotkeys to your favorites for even quicker access.

✨ New

• Custom AI Providers: You can now give custom provider models Raycast's Web Search, Read Page, Search Images and Chart tools. Turn them on with a tools block in providers.yaml, and choose whether each one runs on Raycast, your company gateway, or a vendor you have a key for (Tavily, Exa, Firecrawl, Brave, Perplexity or Jina)
• Script Commands: Added controls to enable or disable background refresh for individual scripts
• System Actions: New Bluetooth command to connect, disconnect, pair, and manage Bluetooth devices
• System Actions: New Toggle Camera Mute command to quickly block or restore camera access for all apps
• System Actions: New Toggle Energy Saver command to turn Energy Saver on or off
• System Actions: New Toggle WiFi command to switch WiFi on or off
• System Actions: New WiFi command to connect to saved networks and manage WiFi preferences

💎 Improvements

• AI: Improved Quick Fix performance
• AI: Made AI requests smaller, so local models reply to a simple message much faster than before and simple requests use fewer credits, without sacrificing response quality. Initial context is now 15% smaller for normal queries, and 40% smaller with automatic extension and skill discovery turned off
• AI Chat: The extensions list in chat settings now shows every extension whose tools the chat uses, including Terminal, Finder and Automations
• AI Commands: AI Commands and automations no longer stop to show a question form. They now include any question in their reply instead
• AI Skills: Improved error details to help AI recover when a skill cannot be loaded
• Dictation: We improved post-processing to be faster and more reliable
• Dictation: We now show a clearer status when wrapping up sessions and confirm with a success HUD when finishing a session
• Extensions: Added support for pasting files copied from Finder or File Explorer directly into file pickers
• File Search: Added image dimensions to the details panel
• File Search: Common development environment caches (e.g. .cargo/global-cache, .venv) are now excluded from indexing
• File Search: Improved CPU and memory utilization. File Search should now use roughly up to ~80% less memory at peak and roughly up to ~95% less memory when searching. Searches are also expected to be faster, up to ~20-30% depending on the search terms and amount of documents
• Settings: AI Model provider sections in the Manage Models settings page now persist their collapsed state
• Settings: Opening a setting or command from elsewhere in Raycast now reliably scrolls to it and highlights it, including when you switch settings pages or select the same item again

🐞 Fixes

• AI Chat: Fixed chats created before 2.3.0 reopening with no agent and the default model. They now restore their original agent, model and reasoning effort
• AI Chat: Fixed chats that AI had archived, pinned or deleted not updating in the sidebar until Raycast was restarted
• AI Chat: Fixed ctrl + Enter and alt + Enter not working while the tool-approval input is focused
• AI Chat: Fixed excessive background activity when checking connected Claude and ChatGPT subscriptions
• AI Chat: Fixed Quick Look when viewing attachments displaying an icon mid-transition
• AI Chat: Fixed Reasoning Effort being hidden for agents whose model is set to Inherit
• AI Chat: Long chat titles and the model and reasoning effort labels truncate in the header
• AI Chat: Long model names in the / menu truncates, and hovering a model now shows a preview of its details
• Dictation: Fixed an issue where dictation would continue when you locked your machine or put it to sleep
• Extensions: Allowed text selection in list detail panels
• Extensions: Fixed manually running a command re-enabling background refresh after it had been disabled
• Feedback: Allowed Escape to close the window, respecting the user preference
• Focus: Fixed the "session finished" notification with the Extend option appearing when you ended a session yourself close to its end
• Hotkey Recorder: Fixed flickering when deleting a hotkey with Backspace
• MCP: Fixed edits to running servers reverting to their previous configuration
• Notes: Fixed backwards compatibility for new nodes so future additions leave existing notes usable
• Notes: Fixed code blocks being dropped when AI created or edited a note
• Notes: Fixed note titles of AI created notes not updating after first line edit
• Quick AI: Fixed new chats using the default model from the model list instead of the Quick AI default model set in Settings
• Quicklinks: Preserved favicons when “Open With” is a browser
• Root Search: Prevented Quicklink arguments retaining focus after execution
• Settings: Fixed command rows expanding and highlighting again after you'd already navigated to them
• Snippets: Fixed cursor placeholders being ignored and spaces or punctuation appearing before expanded text
• Switch Windows: Fixed windows from another desktop briefly appearing when showing only the current desktop
• System: Fixed a crash that could occur while reporting an error
• System: Fixed Alt+F4 unexpectedly quitting Raycast while its main window was hidden
• System: Fixed Alt-based hotkeys taking focus away from text fields
• System: Fixed an issue that caused unresponsiveness after being idle or waking up
• System: Fixed minimizing and restoring windows belonging to apps running as administrator
• System: Fixed Raycast appearing over open and save dialogs when pressing the global hotkey
• System: Fixed slow restarts after Microsoft Store updates on some systems
• System: Fixed snapped windows restoring incorrectly or losing their layout when switching to them
• System Actions: Fixed premature timeout errors in Toggle Bluetooth when Bluetooth takes longer to switch
• System Actions: Fixed unreliable toggling in Toggle Night Light and improved recovery when a change fails to take effect
• UI: Added Page Up/Down scroll handling to virtual lists

We made several memory and performance improvements. Raycast's host process now uses about 50% less memory. Each extension process uses about 30% less memory at startup and less CPU when launching, which helps menu bar commands, background refreshes, and AI tools. We also fixed a memory leak that grew the longer Raycast stayed open. More details are below, and further improvements are coming in the next updates.

🤖 Auto Model

We reworked our Auto model, and you can now choose how it picks a model for you. It comes with three different preferences: Lightweight, Balanced, and Flagship. Balanced is the default and uses about 70% fewer credits than Flagship to help you get more out of your credits. Lightweight responds in about 70% less time than Flagship and works well for quick questions. Flagship uses the most capable models for harder tasks and requires a Pro+ or Max subscription.

✨ New

• AI: Added Claude and ChatGPT subscription usage in /usage in AI Chat and in Settings
• AI: Added Show AI Credits/Claude/ChatGPT Usage commands
• UI: Added automatic color contrast adjustments throughout to ensure the UI remains legible

💎 Improvements

• AI Chat: Mermaid diagrams now load only when a chat first needs them, which reduces memory usage
• AI Permissions: Extended Always Allow approvals to cover similar commands
• AI Permissions: Reduced approval interruptions for routine Git and GitHub workflows, and improved Auto approval decisions
• Clipboard History: Improved contrast of color swatch in color items
• Dictation: Cancelling a dictation now stops it immediately
• Dictation: Transcription is more reliable on slower connections
• Extensions: Clarified how uninstalling an extension affects its settings and data across synced devices
• Extensions: Improved performance when extensions refresh frequently in the background
• File Search: The file indexer uses about 60% less memory when it updates its index
• Memory Usage: Reduced memory overhead from command icons and deferred loading diagram support until needed
• Memory Usage: Reduced memory used by file indexing
• Memory Usage: Reduced memory use in idle extension workers
• Performance: Reduced extension worker startup CPU usage
• Quick AI: Added an option to hide the Quick AI hint in Root Search
• Root Search: Recent searches keep their results, so typing them again responds faster
• Root Search: Added support for numpad for number hotkeys

🐞 Fixes

• Action Panel: Fixed loading spinner alignment in search menus
• AI: Fixed new chats sometimes using the incorrect model when using the “Last Used Model” default setting
• AI Chat: Fixed an issue where pinning a chat removed it from its project
• AI Chat: Improved sidebar spacing and chat title fading
• AI Chat: Fixed "Open AI Settings" opening an empty Settings window instead of the AI settings
• AI Projects: Fixed the missing New Folder button when choosing a project's working directory
• Emoji Picker: Ensured AI results are stable when pasting & keeping the window open
• Extensions: Fixed extension updates failing on Windows for extensions that include AI skills
• Extensions: Fixed AppPicker width something blowing up
• Extensions: Fixed colored tags/icons being illegible in some cases
• File Search: Fixed recent files disappearing while the file index updates
• Keyboard Shortcuts: Fixed recorded shortcuts changing to modifier-only shortcuts when releasing the keys
• Keyboard Shortcuts: Fixed double-tap shortcuts losing their left or right modifier selection when recorded
• Quicklinks: Fixed issues where Quicklink icons would not reliably update or display
• Quicklinks: Fixed a regression preventing from saving a Quicklink
• Quicklinks: Fixed flashing/jumping issues in search view when navigating entries
• Root Search: Fixed Tab and alias navigation to focus the first empty command argument
• Root Search: Fixed running a command with missing required arguments in compact mode to expand the window and focus the missing argument
• Root Search: Fixed results lagging or staying outdated when opening Raycast while file indexing is busy
• Root Search: Fixed running app and game indicators ignoring the preference to hide them
• Script Commands: Fixed fallback commands not receiving the search query as their first argument
• System: Fixed Raycast failing to start, or crashing, when an audio device or media session is unavailable or unplugged
• Notes: Fixed Copy Content from Search losing formatting when pasted into rich text editors
• Notes: Fixed line breaks being lost when pasting text
• Notes: Fixed pasted Markdown being formatted inside code blocks instead of remaining plain text
• Notes: Fixed newly inserted dividers reverting to Markdown when pressing Backspace. The first press now selects the divider, and the second deletes it

Extensions can now provide their own AI models to Raycast. Just install a compatible extension from the Store, complete its setup, and choose its models in AI Chat. It’s an easy way to bring even more models into your everyday workflow.

We updated a few extensions: Ollama AI, AI by Vercel, Cerebras, Groq, LM Studio, etc.. Developers, check out the API changelog for more information.

💎 Improvements

• AI Chat: Rename a chat by double-clicking its title in the top bar. Press Enter to save or Esc to cancel, and the window can still be dragged by the title
• AI Chat: Dictation with Ctrl + M in the AI Chat and Quick AI composers now uses the same processed transcript as the Dictate command. The text shows up once you stop recording instead of streaming into the editor while you speak
• File Search: Added a setting to entirely disable indexing of network/removable/virtual volumes
• File Search: Indexing now respects the .metadata_never_index marker file convention from Spotlight
• Script Commands: Added line wrapping to full output so long lines are easier to read

🐞 Fixes

• AI: Fixed the tool approval bar not responding in later turns of the same response when using Ollama or OpenAI-compatible custom providers
• AI: Fixed failing requests retrying in the background indefinitely during provider outages. Raycast now stops after a few attempts and shows an error with options to change the model, resume, or stop.
• AI Commands: Disabled automatic tool discovery and skill loading
• File Search: Classify NFS, VirtualBox and other mounted volumes correctly as non-local volumes
• Quick AI: Fixed ctrl + Enter (Copy Response) and alt + Enter (Paste Formatted Response) not working right after a response in some cases
• Store: Fixed Install Extension Anyway failing for extensions marked as unsupported on your platform
• AI Profile: Fixed clearing and saving an empty profile
• Open With…: Fixed the menu initially selecting an unrelated app before recommended apps finished loading
• Calculator: Fixed currency conversions using missing or outdated rates during refreshes

✨ New

• System: New Toggle Airplane Mode command to switch airplane mode on and off straight from the root search

💎 Improvements

• AI Chat: Copying or pasting a response now takes only the final answer, leaving out the working narration that came before it
• Script Commands: Scripts now run from their own folder by default, with support for relative and home-directory paths
• Store: Added update details showing which extensions were updated, skipped, removed, or failed, with access to version history
• System: Toggle HDR, Toggle Night Light, Toggle Hidden Files and Toggle System Appearance now confirm the resulting state

🐞 Fixes

• AI: Fixed messages and corresponding reasoning sometimes appearing in the wrong order
• AI Chat: Fixed copying a generated chart or image from a response. Copy and paste now pick the generated image when a response has one, in both AI Chat and Quick AI.
• Clipboard History: Fixed Save as File and Save as Snippet being unavailable for large text entries
• Commands: Fixed commands failing to launch while a confirmation dialog was closing
• Core: fix dialogues like Send Feedback being in a wrong Z-order in certain situations
• Dynamic Placeholders: Fixed clipboard placeholders omitting large text entries or preventing expansion when saved clipboard text was unavailable
• Emoji & Symbols: Fixed searches containing double quotes failing to return results
• Extensions: Fixed extensions failing to store cached data when their cache namespace contained characters Windows does not allow in a folder name
• File Search: Fixed deleted files remaining among recent files until the next search
• Notes: Fixed moving a pinned note to the top sometimes hiding the note from the pinned section
• Raycast Focus: Fixed sessions started through AI or deeplinks ignoring configured preferences, including snooze and app restoration
• Raycast Focus & Calendar: Fixed duration inputs such as “until 15:00” and “until 3pm” not being recognised
• Script Commands: Fixed quickly finishing scripts getting stuck on “Running” and missing error messages when scripts failed to start

We rebuilt the core of Raycast AI. You can now give AI Chat a task and it works out a plan, uses your extensions, writes and runs code, checks the results, and keeps going until it's finished. When something fails, it tries a different approach. And when it needs a decision from you, it stops, asks you, and then continues where it left off.

Tasks like these cost more to run than a single question, which is why this release also changes how we charge for AI. Our plans move from rate-limited to usage-based, all subscription prices stay the same, and there's a new Max plan for heavier usage. Read the full reasoning on our blog.

But there is more…

🔁 Bring Your Own Subscriptions

You can now connect your Claude or ChatGPT account to any paid Raycast plan and use those models in AI Chat, Quick AI, and AI Commands. This lets you run the heaviest tasks without worrying about additional costs. We plan to add other providers in the future, turning AI Chat into your single interface to get the most out of your subscriptions.

📁 Projects

Projects keep conversations about the same topic together. They have their own memory, so you don't have to explain yourself every time you start a new chat, and the agent builds on decisions you've already made. You can also give a project a working directory. Point it at a codebase, an Obsidian vault, or any folder on your Mac, and the agent knows where to work with your files.

🤖 Automations

Automations run prompts on a schedule, so you don't have to start the same task yourself every time. The agent works in the background and adds the result to a chat. Our team uses them to triage their email inboxes every morning, babysit open pull requests every hour, and update Raycast’s memory from their meeting notes every evening.

✨ New

• Window Management: Added Focus Next App Window and Focus Previous App Window commands that cycle through the windows of the focused app
• Window Management: Added Minimize on This Display, a per-monitor Show Desktop that minimizes every window on the display Raycast is on and leaves the other monitors untouched
• Window Management: Custom layouts have a new Other Windows option: Minimize Others minimizes every window that isn't part of the layout when it's applied, and Close Others closes them (including already-minimized ones) as a workspace reset, with apps keeping their unsaved-changes prompts
• AI: Added support for rendering Mermaid diagrams
• AI: Added Auto-review rules for greater control over how Auto mode behaves
• AI: Press ⌘ + F to find text in chat
• AI: Deleted chats now land in Recently Deleted, where you can restore them before they're permanently removed after a retention window of 60 days

💎 Improvements

• AI: Raycast now prevents your computer from sleeping while AI is running
• AI: Tool confirmations now default to Auto, so sessions no longer ask for permission on every tool call if you never touched the setting
• AI: Searching chats will now include content hits
• AI: Model picker now show your recently used models
• AI: @ mention menu will now order options based on frecency
• AI: Search the / model menu and @ mention menu by provider, so typing /ollama or /openai finds the matching models
• Script Commands: Added support for using scripts with a text argument as fallback commands
• Extensions: Improved performance when displaying large extension views
• File Search: Directories automatically excluded from indexing due to significant churn can now be permanently re-included via File Search Settings
• File Search: Exact term matches should now rank higher in results
• MCP: Added Reset Sign In so you can retry an incomplete sign-in without reinstalling the server

🐞 Fixes

• AI Chat: Fixed tool calls silently losing their arguments when streamed from a custom provider in certain cases
• AI Local Models: Ollama connections no longer go through the system proxy, fixing repeated connection failures and a probe loop for people running a proxy
• Applications: Fixed some packaged apps (like Spotify) intermittently disappearing from running apps and frontmost-app detection
• Calculator: Fixed missing results for “now”, “time”, “today”, “tomorrow”, and “yesterday”
• Calculator: Fixed unnecessary results appearing when entering plain numbers
• Calculator History: Fixed an issue where some calculations would appear to truncate too eagerly in the list view
• Extensions: Fixed an issue with form label/control alignment
• Extensions: Fixed getting stuck on the success screen after forking an extension
• Extensions: Updated outdated AI models used by extensions and fixed creativity settings being ignored
• File Search: Fixed a few cases where case sensitivity was causing File Search to exclude or include paths unintentionally
• File Search: File Search should now trigger a full re-index on startup and wake-up less often
• Hotkeys: Fixed the Copilot key (Hyper Key) toggling Raycast when the hotkey is the bare Windows key, and pressing Win while another modifier is already held no longer counts as a Win tap
• Hyper Key: Fixed Caps Lock staying on after leaving a game when Caps Lock is set as the Hyper Key
• Launch at Login: Fixed Raycast not starting at login when a Microsoft Store update was still being registered
• MCP: Fixed sign-in failures with some servers, including Tripsy
• Root Search: Fixed an issue where the action panel could sometimes reopen when navigating back to Root Search
• Settings: Fixed Escape inside a Settings dialog closing the whole Settings window instead of the dialog
• Settings: Fixed several Windows Settings search results opening the general settings page instead of the specific sub-page they described
• Store: Fixed cut-off extension details on the installation screen
• Store: Fixed installing extensions after choosing to ignore platform restrictions, and updating those extensions afterward

Bring Your Own Model brings three familiar ways to use your preferred AI models back to Raycast v2. Connect any OpenAI-compatible endpoint with Custom Providers, run models through Ollama with Local Models, or add your OpenRouter API key to choose from its catalog. Once configured, your models are available across Raycast AI alongside Raycast’s built-in options.

In v2, Custom Providers, Local Models, and Bring Your Own Key require a Raycast Pro subscription. We know this is a meaningful change compared to v1 and want to be upfront about it. You can read more about our thinking and where we’re heading on the BYOAI article in the Manual.

✨ New

• AI: Added support OpenAI-compatible custom providers, local models via Ollama, and OpenRouter API keys, using their models across Raycast AI
• Quick AI: Added a Paste Formatted Response action
• Window Management: Added Resize Window and Move Window commands that take exact pixel dimensions and coordinates as arguments
• Window Management: Added Create Layout From Current Windows command allowing for quick capturing custom layouts from the windows currently on screen. The layout editor can also add any visible window, and a layout can place several windows of the same app
• Window Management: Apps launched by a custom layout can now be given command-line arguments

💎 Improvements

• AI: Added basic support for right-to-left text
• AI Settings: Enabled Ask Questions and Collapse Long Messages by default and removed their settings
• Window Management: Applying a custom layout now forms a native snap group, so arranged windows keep Windows' joint-resize dividers and Snap Assist no longer gets in the way
• Root Search: Apps can now be found by their executable name or execution alias (e.g. "devenv" finds Visual Studio), and apps sharing a name are disambiguated in search and app pickers
• File Search: Deep directories no longer outrank shallower or more recent files
• Run: Added Run in Shell and Run in Shell as Administrator actions, plus a Shell preference in Run settings, so commands can run in your shell of choice with the terminal left open
• Run: Searching Run Commands now matches the command text itself, not just its name, so you can find a saved command by what it actually does
• System: Added an Automatically Show the Taskbar setting so an auto-hidden Windows taskbar reveals itself whenever Raycast is open

🐞 Fixes

• Applications: Fixed browser-profile app entries acting on windows that belong to other profiles
• Clipboard: Fixed files copied to the clipboard (e.g. by Capture Window) not pasting into apps that expect an image
• Dictation: Fixed an issue where dictated text could be submitted before the target app had finished receiving it, cutting off part of the transcription.
• Extensions: Fixed Grid pagination on fractional display scaling, tooltips on List and Grid item icons and accessories, Form item info text, Alert icons, and checkbox preference grouping in Settings
• File Search: Fixed a race condition that could cause the index to remain incomplete
• File Search: Recent files now populate during indexing
• Quick AI: Fixed launches from Root Search not applying the current Quick AI defaults in some situations
• Root Search: Recent files should now be consistent with File Search
• Settings: Fixed opening a setting closing the already-open Settings window instead of focusing it
• Window Management: Fixed maximized and minimized windows being placed on the wrong monitor when applying a layout

Your favorite emojis are now just a : away. Type : followed by an emoji name to open the Inline Emoji Picker and insert emojis without breaking your flow.

Inline Emoji Picker works across text fields throughout Raycast, including AI Chat, Notes, Snippets, Quicklinks, and AI Commands. Suggestions follow your preferred emoji skin tone.

✨ New

• Emoji: Added Inline Emoji Picker. Type : followed by a name in any text field to search and insert emojis.

💎 Improvements

• AI Chat: Fixed run errors rendering above tool calls in some situations
• AI Chat: Fixed failed image generations and remote tools appearing as completed
• AI Chat: Fixed the collapsed reasoning-effort icon being pushed to the right by accident
• Applications: App icons now follow the light/dark appearance, so monochrome icons like ChatGPT's are no longer invisible in dark mode
• Quick AI: Added support for dropping files from File Explorer directly into Quick AI to attach them, including while revealing the window with the global hotkey mid-drag
• Root Search: Improved icon rendering of Quicklink favourites in compact mode
• Root Search: Tab now performs primary action if AI or Tab to Quick AI is disabled
• Updater: Raycast now relaunches itself after an update installed by the Microsoft Store or winget, instead of staying closed until the next logon
• Windows Settings: Settings are now filtered by your device's capabilities, so entries like lid actions only show up on laptops
• Windows Settings: Settings are grouped into browsable sections instead of one flat list
• Windows Settings: Settings have shorter, more searchable names, and irrelevant Windows entries like "Set up a kiosk" are gone.

🐞 Fixes

• Applications: Fixed duplicate search entries for some winget-installed apps
• Applications: Fixed placeholder icons for shortcuts whose icon file no longer exists, such as uninstalled Steam games
• AI Chat: Fixed a text scaling issue in “Ask Question” tool
• Capture Window: Fixed captured screenshots getting a dark one-pixel border, which made them fail the extension store's image check.
• Clipboard History: Fixed an issue where selecting all content would also select list items
• Clipboard History: Ensured pasting non-full entries can still correctly update history (ie. paste as plain text)
• Dictation: Fixed dictations losing audio or failing on stop during long sessions.
• Dictation: Fixed context-aware paste inserting wrong spacing and hanging on slow apps.
• Dictation: Fixed auto submit missing the keyword when quoted or punctuated.
• Emoji Picker: Fixed emoji jitter when moving selection
• Emoji Picker: Fixed an issue where saving keywords on an AI suggested emoji would fail
• Extensions: Fixed an issue where pressing Escape from an extension subview would mistakenly discard Raycast
• Extensions: Restored @raycast/api 1.x compatibility
• File Search: Fixed an issue preventing file index compaction causing elevated disk space utilization
• File Search: Fixed an issue causing files and directories to not be properly excluded due to case mismatch
• File Search: Fixed an issue where directories matching a term and containing many children would be hidden from results by its contents
• My Schedule: Fixed an alignment issue when the time of event was formatted with a 12h clock
• Notes: Fixed inline code background in completed todo items
• Notes: Fixed empty list items being dropped when pasting markdown
• Notes: Fixed checklist structure being lost when copying and pasting
• Root Search: Fixed a regression that brought back tab to browse files
• Settings: Fixed script command icons being cropped
• Settings: Fixed slow bulk enable/disable in Shortcuts settings.