Changelog

You can now export Raycast’s settings and data using the Export Settings & Data command. The export includes, quicklinks, snippets, settings, extensions, hotkeys and aliases. The export can be used to transfer your setup to another PC by running the Import Settings & Data command and choosing the rayconfig file created during export.

Note: during the beta period the export format may change, so we can’t guarantee compatibility with older exports 🤞

✨ New

• Extensions: Add a new Manage Extensions command.
• Store: When trying to install an extension that’s not available for Windows from the web store, you will now have an action to install it anyway in order for developers to try it and fork it if necessary.

💎 Improvements

• Extensions: Extensions should be 3 to 4 times faster to launch!
• Extensions: When uninstalling an extension, you will now have the option to keep its settings in case you want to reinstall it later.
• General: Combined name & icon fields throughout the UI.
• Performance: Faster window initialization and lower RAM usage.
• System: Added new Set Volume command with an argument to set an arbitrary volume.
• Search Emojis & Symbols: Added “Copy All Emojis from Section” action.
• Advanced Settings: Added “Root Search Sensitivity” option to control how many results appear in Root search. Low sensitivity returns many results for a search term, while high sensitivity displays fewer.

🐞 Fixes

• Applications: Launched apps now properly come to focus.
• Applications: Removed Uninstall Applications command as it wasn’t ready for prime-time yet.
• Compact Mode: Allowed double-clicking on update list item in compact mode to trigger the update.
• General: Fixed an issue with incorrect main window size.
• General: Fixed overflow issue in toast.
• Store: Show the owner name when there is one instead of the author name.
• Extensions: Allow to unset a file preference.
• Extensions: Fixed the “last ran at” time not being updated when a command is run in the background.
• Extensions: Fixed an issue with focus/keyboard handling when popping-back out of a newly installed extension.
• Snippets: Fixed an issue with incorrect cursor position resolution when using dynamic placeholders.
• Snippets: Fixed an issue where cleaning a keyword deleted an incorrect number of characters.
• Snippets: Fixed an issue where auto expansion didn’t work for keywords typed on international keyboard layouts.
• Snippets: Fixed an issue where auto expansion didn’t work in environments where CTRL+V is not the paste shortcut.
• Snippets: Fixed an issue with snippets expanding into the content of the clipboard and not the actual snippet text.
• Snippets: Fixed an issue where auto expansion sometimes didn’t work in Microsoft Word.
• Snippets: Paste primary action now correctly resolves cursor position.
• Snippets: Fixed an issue where the create/edit layout would bust out.
• Search Emojis & Symbols: Fixed AI section not being selected when generating AI suggestions with the Tab key.
• Theming: Raycast windows should respect theming settings now.

We’re live! Today, we’re making Raycast for Windows available for everyone. While we keep the beta label for now, we’re excited for you to try it out.

Your computer should feel like everything is at your fingertips. That's why we built Raycast, and now it's on Windows. We made sure it feels at home, with familiar shortcuts and a design that fits right in. Quick AI is free during the beta, and we're just getting started.

Read the full announcement on our blog.

🎊 Confetti

Celebrate with us by running the new Confetti command. A fun background story to this command is that Thomas (our CEO) made this after Sandy (People Ops Manager) rejected his actual confetti cannon purchase, so he decided to build his own. It's fun and Sandy approves! 🎉

⚡ Snippet Expansion 

The true power of snippets is here. Type faster by using snippet expansion to insert your commonly used text. Simply add a keyword to your Snippets, and when you type this keyword we will automatically replace it with your Snippet text.

✨ New

• Clipboard History: Pro users can now keep history for 6 months, 1 year or an unlimited duration.
• Authentication: Removed the required login step before getting started.
• Import Settings & Data: You can now import your settings and data from macOS in Windows. Use the Export Settings & Data command on macOS, transfer the rayconfig file, then use the Import Settings & Data command on Windows. Currently import supports Quicklinks, Snippets and some settings.

💎 Improvements

• Clipboard History: Improved “Rename Entry…” action, you can now rename the entry directly in the Action Panel.
• Clipboard History: Improved details preview for when we do not know how to visually represent a given clipboard entry.
• File Search: Improved “Rename…” action, you can now rename a file directly in the Action Panel.
• File Search: Queries ending with \ or / now display results under directories that prefix-match the query.
• Quick AI: Shows better error messages in case something goes wrong.
• Quicklinks: Added ability to “Open With”.
• Snippets: Added a setting to enable/disable snippet auto expansion.

🐞 Fixes

• General: Fixed an issue where Raycast was using more memory than necessary.
• Clipboard History: Fixed some date formatting edge cases.
• Extensions: Fixed an issue when installing an extension from the web store where the navigation/action bars were not visible.
• Extensions: Fixed a regression where metadata in detail views was not spaced out correctly.
• File Search: File and Directory results are now more consistent between Root Search and File Search.
• General: Fixed a regression where the Action Panel button was not highlighted when open.
• Quick AI: Fixed a bug where Raycast would pop to root when trying to access Quick AI via tab.
• Snippets: Fixed an issue that caused accent characters to duplicate on some keyboard layouts.
• Snippets: Fixed an issue that caused Raycast windows to hide when expanding a snippet into them.
• Snippets: Fixed an issue that caused Snippets auto-expansion to be disabled after the restart.
• Snippets: Fixed an issue where expanding a snippet with only a dropdown argument would result in a broken focused state.
• Snippets: Fixes an issue where re-using arguments would result in a duplicated argument input.

As we prepare for our public beta release we are moving into the Microsoft Store. With this release you will be migrated into a new version of our app, which is distributed through the Microsoft Store. If all goes well, you won’t even notice this change. If you do run into any issues, please let us know in our Slack Community or in Featurebase.

Thanks so much for being on this journey with us so far, we truly value all of the feedback and support we have received 👏🏻. We can’t wait for this next phase and to keep bringing you new and exciting features! 🎉

✨ New

• Settings: Added support for Emacs/VIM style navigation in supported areas (lists, grids)
• Automatic Updates: The app now updates itself automatically in the background, without interrupting your work

💎 Improvements

• Store: Added new secondary action in the search view to list the commands of an already installed extension.
• Store: Added new action in the search view to configure an already installed extension.

🐞 Fixes

• General: Fixed a regression where the HUD would be too transparent, making it difficult to read the text.
• Extensions: Fixed an issue where, when an exception happened in an extension, the error screen would fail to parse the error.
• Store: Fixed an issue where keyboard handling wasn’t responding after installing an extension from raycast.com/store.

There is a brand new way to set shortcuts for your favourite commands and apps and you can do it all without ever leaving Root Search! The existing “Configure Command” action is now a submenu which exposes further actions that let you set an alias or a hotkey directly from the Action Panel.

Open Raycast and find the app or command you want to configure. Then press Ctrl K to open the Action Panel and search for the “Configure Application/Command…” action. From there, you can set your desired alias or hotkey. Next time you can simply press Ctrl Shift , to set your shortcuts even faster.

✨ New

• Compact Mode: Starting with the “Install Update” item, we are now showing relevant items in compact mode, so next time you update you should see it in compact mode.
• File Search: File Search will now index Google Drive, if configured in File Search Settings.
• Preferences: Toggle Night Light command.
• Root Search: Added a new “Get Started” featured item when launching Raycast for the first time.

💎 Improvements

• File Search: File Search can now be completely disabled via the File Search Settings.
• File Search: It’s now possible to remove the user directory from the indexed paths.
• File Search: Added an option to allow not respecting .gitignore/ .ignore / .rayignore files globally.
• Quick AI: Added languages to code blocks and made copy code button sticky
• Settings: Shortcuts setting filter now shows modifications first as they are more relevant filters.

🐞 Fixes

• Emoji Search: Fixed the app getting stuck during typing in some cases
• File Search: .rayignore files created by the “Exclude from index” action are now correctly formatted.
• File Search: The “Ignore patterns” setting should now behave as expected.
• General: Fixed an issue where popovers wouldn’t close when the window resized.
• General: Fixed a bug that caused Raycast to crash when your username and PC name were identical.

Find and launch your favorite games with our new Games extension. Automatically detects games from Steam, Epic, GOG, Battle.net, EA, Ubisoft Connect and Itch.io. Simple type "game" to see all of your titles.

✨ New

• Games: New extension to search and start your games all in one place.
• Clipboard History: Added “Automatic Text Recognition” setting. Text content in images will be recognized automatically. This enables you to search images by their text content. You can also copy the text from an image using the “Copy Text from Image” action.
• Clipboard History: Added “Disabled Applications” setting. Use this filter to opt-out certain applications from having their content saved in Clipboard History.
• Preferences: Added Environment Variables preference command.

💎 Improvements

• Clipboard History: Improved email handling, we better differentiate emails from links. There is now a new “Email” category.
• Clipboard History: Do not store sensitive data in the history.
• File Search: Improved filesystem indexing performance and greatly reduced the impact of Microsoft Defender Antivirus while indexing the filesystem.
• General: Improved main window background rendering; it no longer displays stale UI when revealed.
• General: Added support for Numpad Enter key throughout the UI.
• General: Improved fuzzy matching in menus.
• Startup: We now check if the app’s databases are set up correctly and will show an alert with recovery options at startup if there are any issues.

🐞 Fixes

• Emoji Picker: Fixed an issue where the UI wouldn’t refresh after pinning operations.
• Extensions: Fixed some edge cases where changing the value of a Form item wouldn’t be possible.
• Extensions: Fixed some edge cases where some images wouldn’t have the correct colors
• File Search: .rayignore files created by the “Exclude from index” action are now correctly marked as hidden files.
• General: Fixed a window sizing issue caused by the Text Size settings.
• General: Fixed an app discovery issue where it’d spend a lot of time traversing node_modules directories.
• General: Fixed an issue where texareas wouldn’t be sized correctly.
• General: Fixed an issue with Markdown image rendering in the release notes.
• Games: Fixed crash when disocvered invalid game display name.

The new Window Management extension lets you move and scale other application windows with ease. Maximize, center or layout windows with a few keystrokes. And assign global hotkeys to perform common ones even quicker.

✨ New

• Window Management: New extension to move and scale your windows.
• Clipboard History: Added a new Edit Content action.
• Clipboard History: Added alternative “Keep Open” actions for copy/paste.
• Clipboard History: Added a new Open With… action.
• Clipboard History: Added a new Show in File Explorer action.
• Clipboard History: Added a new Copy Color as… action.
• Clipboard History: Added a new Save as File… action.
• Clipboard History: Added a new Paste Sequentially command.
• Clipboard History: Added “Primary Action” setting to choose between the “Paste to Active App” and “Copy to Clipboard actions.
• Clipboard History: Added “Show visual information for links” setting to opt-out from displaying favicons and link previews.
• Extensions: Added support for Browser Extension.
• Extensions: Added support for Window Management.
• File Search: Added a new Open With… action.
• File Search: Added a new Paste File action.
• Snippets: Added a new Export Snippet… action.
• Root Search: commands now have a Favorite action that let you place your favorite commands at the top.

💎 Improvements

• General: All menu components (action panel, navigation filter, select, etc) now support fuzzy search.
• Quick AI: Inline sources in text are now less visually prominent with a more detailed source summary at the bottom of the text.

🐞 Fixes

• Applications: Fixed an issue where the visibility of actions like Quit Application would not be up to date with the application’s running state.
• Clipboard History: We now correctly ignore empty entries.
• Clipboard: Fixed an issue that caused false positive Alt key press events when pasting.
• Extensions: Fixed a case where extensions would not properly be triggered in the background.
• Extensions: Fixed the “Install Extension” button on the web not showing the install extension screen.
• General: Fixed an issue when hotkeys wouldn’t trigger when focused on a multi-select dropdown.
• General: Fixed title/description potentially breaking out of an alert.
• Quick AI: Fixed search term not appearing in web search tool calls in some situations.
• Quicklinks: Fixed a rendering issue where the editor would bleed outside the rounded corners.
• Snippets: Fixed a rendering issue where the editor would bleed outside the rounded corners.
• Quicklinks: Quicklinks with default argument placeholders now work in Root Search.

The Keyboard Shortcut infrastructure has been revamped to support more shortcut types and multiple keyboard layouts. The User Interface for setting shortcuts has also been updated to allow for greater interaction. You can now differentiate between left, right, or any modifier; change the targeted keys to make them layout-dependent or independent; and support double-tap modifier shortcuts.

Please note that we are migrating your hotkey data into a new data structure. While we have tried to cover all edge cases, there is a possibility that some hotkey information may be lost. We are also aware some users are experiencing issues with software that creates virtual key presses or modifies keyboard state. This update doesn’t resolve those problems, but we are investigating them.

✨ New

• Clipboard History: Added a new Copy Formatted JSON action.
• Clipboard History: Added a new Delete Entries… action with further options to delete recent entries (Last 5 Minutes, Last 15 Minutes, Last 30 Minutes, Last Hour, Last 24 Hours)
• File Search: Added a new Open in Terminal action.
• General: All list-based components now support number hotkeys to trigger the nth item (eg. CTRL + 3 will trigger the 3rd item). This works in all list views as well as all menus.
• Settings: New UI for assigning Hotkeys.
• Settings: Support for double-tap modifier shortcuts.
• Settings: Support for specific modifier selection (any, left, or right)
• Settings: Support for selecting a key equivalent or layout independent key.
• Store: Filter extensions by category.
• System: Show value of Increase/Decrease Volume commands in notifications.

💎 Improvements

• Clipboard History: Improved performance for large text entries.
• File Search: Improved performance for large text files.
• Root Search: More relevant suggested commands in Root Search based on usage.
• Settings: The hotkey view now supports more filters (e.g. enabled, disabled).

🐞 Fixes

• Applications: fixed an issue where sometimes applications are missing and added better diagnostic logs if it’s still there.
• Clipboard History: Fixed behavior of pasting from Clipboard History, the last pasted content now will correctly remain in the OS clipboard, ready to be pasted again.
• Clipboard History: Fixed a titling issue when copying very large single-line text.
• Clipboard History: Reduced the numbers of errors in details panel.
• Clipboard History: Fixed a few regressions around being able to preview images/screenshots.
• Root Search: Fixed an issue where history would be enabled with an arrow up key repeat.
• Root Search: Removed duplicate Configure Extension action on file items.
• Root Search: Removed some duplicate actions on Quicklink items.
• Root Search: Fixed an issue when Root Search history wasn’t working with ArrowUp from compact mode.
• Store: Fixed wrong icon on Open Command action.

✨ New

• Root Search: You can now go back to previous searches by pressing the ArrowUp key
• Root Search: Added a new Uninstall Application action for applications
• Root Search: Added a new Disable command action
• Root Search: Added a new Copy Raycast version command to help with logging issues on Featurebase

💎 Improvements

• Clipboard History: non-qualified links are now categorised/previewed correctly
• General: Scrollbar UI was simplified
• Quicklinks: User-created Quicklinks are now separated from normal commands in settings

🐞 Fixes

• Clipboard History: Fixed ‘Paste as plain text’ shortcut not working
• General: Fixed an issue where sometimes the top items of dropdown could not be clicked
• Extensions: Fixed an issue where some images (data uri) wouldn’t load in a Detail view
• Extensions: Fixed an issue where a Toast or HUD could linger off after an command was done
• Extensions: Fixed an issue where getAllApplications would return an empty array when called with a path to a directory
• General: Improved Raycast memory consumption by not keeping the Settings Window in memory
• Onboarding: Welcome window now adapts to low-resolution displays and updates when the display changes
• Snippets: Text is now selectable in the snippet preview
• Extensions: Fixed an issue where a local extension could appear twice int he root search

Starting today, power users and developers can spin up custom extensions on Windows. We’ve added a set of new commands that make scaffolding, developing, and testing extensions on Windows easier. Whether you’re wiring up internal APIs, adding quick actions for your daily tasks, or experimenting with AI-powered flows, you’ll be up and running in minutes, just follow the guide!

✨ New

• Extensions: Added a new Create Extension command
• Extensions: Added a new Import Extension command
• Extensions: Added a new Fork Extension action
• Dynamic Placeholders: Added a new {calculator} dynamic placeholder

💎 Improvements

• Extensions: When an issue occurs in an extension, you’ll be able to report it to the extension’s author and contributors
• Extensions: When an issue occurs in a local extension, you’ll be able to see both the React Component stack trace as well as the JavaScript stack trace
• Store: Improve sorting of extensions

🐞 Fixes

• Calculator: Fixed a crash due to an unsupported timezone format
• Extensions: Fixed an crash with the CopyName common shortcut
• File Search: Removed displaying empty size for folders
• Root Search: Ensured we get out of compact mode when an alert needs showing
• Settings: Fixed an issue where the caret would jump to the end of some inputs when editing text
• Dynamic Placeholders: Fixed the {selection} placeholder not being recognised

The search algorithm now takes into account the terms that were used to open previous commands. It will prioritize commands that you already opened with a given search term making results more relevant.

✨ New

• Dynamic Placeholders: You can now use modifiers in dynamic placeholders
• Extensions: Allow installing extensions from your organisation store
• Extensions: You can now install extensions from the web store

💎 Improvements

• Quick AI: Improved rendering of partial response while it is streaming in, especially for citations
• Quick AI: When changing the AI model, models are grouped by brand

🐞 Fixes

• Root Search: Applications are now discovered and cleared as they are installed or uninstalled as intended
• File Search: The “Exclude from index” action now works as intended
• Quick AI: Fix vertical alignment of citations without a favicon
• General: Do not copy emoji to the Clipboard when pasting the emoji
• Extensions: Fix an issue where some text could be lost when typing in a textarea
• Extensions: Fix an issue where Raycast would lose focus when showing the required preferences screen