Changelog

Raycast on Windows now supports Script Commands!

They allow you to run your frequently used scripts in a few keystrokes, or bind them to a shortcut.

Script Commands let you bring your own automation into Raycast by writing simple scripts in any language you prefer — whether it's C#, Bash, Powershell, Python, Node.js, or others. Define a title, description, and other metadata at the top of your script file, and Raycast turns it into a fully searchable command, just like a built-in one.

Quickly create a new script with Create Script Command or import existing scripts by adding a Script Directory from Settings. You can learn more about the metadata format in our repo.

✨ New

• Switch Windows: List all open windows of your running applications and switch instantly. Search for window titles or app names and use the action panel to perform common window or application-related actions.
• Games: Added quick actions to reclassify applications as games and vice versa.

💎 Improvements

• Core: Improve foreground window tracking

🐞 Fixes

• System: Fixed an issue where windows couldn't be properly resized from the top and right edges.
• System: Fixed an issue where the window resize area was too thin.
• System: Fixed an issue when Raycast window won’t show up on hotkey in some environments.
• System: Fixed an issue with Typescript-based script commands throwing an error.

You can now index network and removable volumes for File Search.

Simply add them to the Search Scope in File Search Settings, and they will be automatically indexed. You can toggle deleting files in these volumes from the index when the volumes are disconnected via the “Keep Files from Removed Volumes” setting.

When indexing, local and non-removable volumes are indexed first, followed by network volumes and finally by removable volumes.

This enables extending File Search for cloud storage services that expose storage as a network mount, like Filen.io.

✨ New

• File Search: Allow indexing of removable and network drives

💎 Improvements

• File Search: Directories matching a query ending with a slash will now rank higher than their children.
• Quicklinks: Pin, Unpin, Move up and Move down actions are now available for Quicklinks.
• Run: Added shell selection (CMD, PowerShell, etc.) when creating or editing custom Run commands.
• Run: Updated command icons with a fresh design.
• Snippets: Added support for HTML snippet injection.

🐞 Fixes

• File Search: Ensure the “Keep Files from Removed Volumes” setting is accessible to users.
• Run: Fixed an issue where executables weren't found correctly due to PATH resolution.
• Settings: Fixed popovers sometimes being cut-off or badly positioned.
• Snippets: Fixed an issue where multi-line snippets weren't expanding correctly.
• Snippets: Fixed an issue where snippet expansion didn't work correctly when NumLock was enabled.
• Snippets: Fixed an issue where snippets could trigger incorrectly after switching windows.
• Snippets: Improved clipboard timing and Unicode character handling for more reliable expansion.
• Quicklinks: Fixed issue when creating a Quicklink to be opened with a default app.

We're thrilled to bring our Typing Practice extension to Raycast for Windows! Start a new session using the new Start Typing Practice command and choose one of the available modes (”Quote” or “Time”) which feature a wide variety of quotes.

We’ve collaborated with Monkeytype to bring you a great typing experience, help you improve your speed and accuracy and track your progress.

Get ready to type your way to mastery!

✨ New

• Typing Practice: New extension 🎉
• Run: Create custom Run commands, execute them directly from the root search, and assign custom hotkeys. All are backward compatible with the classic Run dialog.
• Run: New Create Run Command command to create custom Run commands.
• Run: New Search Run Commands command to manage custom Run commands.

💎 Improvements

• Applications: Add missing shortcuts to Quit / Force Quit applications.
• Clipboard History: Clipboard history items are deduplicated more intelligently.
• Settings: Improved grouping in Advanced Settings.

🐞 Fixes

• Settings: Fixed file picker width being too small in 3rd party extension settings.
• Store: Fixed Search Store command accessories spacing being too far apart.

AI Commands help you automate repetitive work in seconds. Pick a pre-made command like “Fix Spelling and Grammar” or create your own with a simple text prompt.

You can use them to transform text, update or modify data, generate code documentation, and polish UX copy. Check our Prompt Library for some inspiration.

✨ New

• AI Commands: Automate repetitive tasks and eliminate chores by creating AI Commands that can be invoked with a single hotkey.

💎 Improvements

• Quick AI: Display timestamp for messages.
• Settings: Show Pro plan subscription status.

🐞 Fixes

• System: Fixed the title bar issue.
• Quick AI: Fixed layout breaking with longer error messages.
• Extensions: Fixed primary/secondary action shortcuts missing in Action Panel.
• Extensions: Fixed search placeholder sometimes not being ellipsized.

New Run command, a modern replacement for the classic Windows Run dialog. Instead of memorizing commands, you can browse, discover, manage history and run everything your system offers, directly from Raycast.

✨ New

• Run: Modern replacement for the classic Windows Run dialog (Learn more in the manual)
• Game Launching: New Game Mode setting toggle to disable the hotkeys during gaming sessions

💎 Improvements

• General: Added missing about actions menu in all extensions
• Quick AI: Disabled AI model selects when there is only a single model available
• Snippets: Injection delay config to avoid accidental triggers on similar aliases
• Store: Polished store details view design

🐞 Fixes

• File Search: Fixed an issue where File Search could no longer index files with long (> 260 character) paths
• Run: Multiple small fixes and improvements
• System: Fixed an issue that would cause Raycast to crash at startup for some users.
• System: Fixed an issue that would cause Raycast to crash when starting for the first time without a network connection.

You've probably seen these in Raycast, when your search term doesn't have any matching result. It was a list of pre-defined commands like DuckDuckGo Search, Google Search etc. Now, you can customize the list by clicking the new Settings icon, next to the title of the list section, and select Commands or Quicklinks and Snippets that accept an argument.

✨ New

• Fallback Commands: You can now manage the commands that show up when there are no results in the Root Search.
• Quit All Apps: New System command to quit all running applications. You can define excluded applications in the command’s settings.
• Quit/Hide All Apps Except Frontmost: New System command to quit or hide all applications except the active one. Similar to Quit All Apps, you can define a list of excluded apps in the settings.

💎 Improvements

• Clipboard History: Improved clipboard history details for images that are files.
• General: Fade out animations for HUD notifications.
• General: Added icons to most of built-in extensions’ filter dropdowns.
• Root Search: Added new hint on file items to show they are browsable via Tab/Shift+Tab.
• Quicklinks: We now automatically unquote pasted links.
• Settings: Filter categories no longer incorrectly count "all" as a category.
• System: IME keyboard layouts support.
• System: Settings window now keeps its position and size.
• Snippets: Disabled Application config to fully turn off any keyboard tracking in disabled windows.
• Snippets: Expand within Words toggle to only auto expand snippets when they are separate words, separated by a delimiting symbol.
• Snippets: Expansion Mode config for more fine-grained control over keyword detection with respect to delimiters like space, new line, punctuation etc.
• Snippets: Response Time config that controls text injection delay for systems with slower input processing.
• Snippets: Completion Sound config for playing a short sound to indicate successful snippet auto expansion.
• Emojis: Save AI-generated custom keywords config to store the search term you used to find an emoji using AI, helping future searches to find it without AI.
• Extensions: Added a Fork Extension action in the Manage Extension command for extensions that you published but don’t have locally anymore.

🐞 Fixes

• Applications: MSIX and PWA apps now open in the foreground.
• Applications: Fixed handling of advertised shortcuts which caused apps like Bitwig to be missing.
• Applications: Fixed a regression that prevented application running indicators to be displayed.
• Extensions: Fixed an issue where changes would be committed to git when forking an extension, leading to issues in the publish flow down the road.
• Extensions: Fixed a case where some images wouldn’t be rendered in a Detail view.
• Extensions: Fixes installed extensions being replaced by their local version when forking them.
• File Search: Fixed an issue where online-only Dropbox files could get downloaded inadvertently.
• General: Fixed an issue where HUD could get too wide.
• General: Fixed an issue where toasts subtitle would get prioritised over title.
• General: Fixed a regression where popovers could get cut-off.
• Hotkeys: Stale hotkeys are automatically cleaned up when assigning new ones or when apps are installed or uninstalled.
• Quicklinks: Hotkeys are now properly deleted when the quicklink is removed.
• Quicklinks: Fixed an issue where the icon would get lost as you typed a link.
• Snippets: Fixed issue when pasting snippet would incorrectly try to remove keyword for snippets with existing keywords.
• Snippets: Fixed issue where shorter snippet keywords were auto expanded instead of longer ones that contained them.
• System: Fixed tray menu theming.

🐞 Fixes

• File Search: Fixed an issue causing constant re-indexing and high resource utilization

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.