Changelog

We are happy to introduce a new and faster file system indexer for Windows. By enabling this feature, you can enjoy faster indexing of your local NTFS drives. Other drives will be indexed with the default indexer.

You can enable it via Settings > File Search > Use Fast File Scanner.

Please note that enabling or disabling this feature requires administrator privileges.

✨ New

• File Search: a new, experimental “Fast File Scanner” is now available via File Search Settings.

💎 Improvements

• Calculator: Support more complex syntax like time in 4 hours, time in 7 hours in San Francisco, or 1 week ago @ 19:30.
• Calculator: Support for percentage elapsed in calendar units (e.g. year percentage, month percentage, etc.).
• Calculator: Support more shorthand units like mo for months, yr for year, and deg for degrees.
• Calculator: Support for units without spaces (e.g. 1kUSD).
• Emoji Picker: Added a colorful, new selection state, making it even more fun to use
• Quick AI: Partial responses look smoother while content is streaming in by handling incomplete Markdown syntax

🐞 Fixes

• Clipboard: Fixed clipboard locking when copying from ShareX, Flow Launcher, and some other apps
• File Search: It’s now possible to trigger re-indexing manually if there are no results
• General: Fixed the “Copy Path” command for applications
• General: Fixed the wrong size and position when switching between different displays and DPIs
• General: Removed the Use System CAs option, this is now always the case
• HUD: Do not show HUD in the Window Switcher
• Extensions: Fix an issue where resetting a form item value after submitting the form wouldn’t reset to the correct value
• Extensions: Fix an issue where you’d have to change the value of a search bar dropdown before it would be used
• Extensions: Fix an issue where the actions shown for an empty view would be incorrect

🐞 Fixes

• Quick AI: Fixed an issue that prevented follow-up actions from being executed
• Quick AI: Fixed reasoning getting stuck in a loading state in some cases

🐞 Fixes

• Quicklinks: Fixed an issue where arguments weren’t enforced when executing a Quicklink command.
• Root Search: Fixed an issue where items with spaces in alias would not be ranked first when searching for the alias.
• Root Search: Relaxed auto-activating of aliased commands when pressing “Space” after the alias.
• Store: Fixed “Install Extension” action shortcut.

💎 Improvements

• General: Tweak the Raycast window position

🐞 Fixes

• Application Hotkeys: Fixed an issue where restarting Raycast would sometimes remove your saved application hotkey.
• Connection Settings: Proxy URLs are now handled properly regardless of whether they specify a protocol or not.

We are transitioning into beta and in the coming days we will start a slow rollout to our waitlist. This release includes branding changes and a load of final touches and polish to take our app into this next phase.

✨ New

• Onboarding: Shipped a new onboarding flow
• Quicklinks: Added the ability to import Quicklinks
• Snippets: Added the ability to import Snippets
• Favicon Provider: We added a new setting to let you pick your favicon provider or disable it altogether, allowing you to balance user experience and privacy. You can configure it via Raycast Settings → General → Favicon Provider.
• Feedback: Our feedback command now uses Featurebase to collate feedback

💎 Improvements

• Installer: We updated our installer to include all the required libraries.
• Design: Added new command icons for core Raycast features.
• Shortcuts: We change our delete shortcut to use the D key instead of delete to prevent conflicts with some editors and made this consistent through the app.

🐞 Fixes

• Hotkeys: Deleting an application with a hotkey will release the hotkey to be used elsewhere

🧠 Quick AI

Need a quick answer? Quick AI is here to help! Just open Raycast, type your question, and press Tab to get the response. Whether it’s a programming question, content iteration, or a dinner recommendation — it’s all just a Tab away.

We introduced Quick AI on macOS two years ago and we are now bringing it to Raycast on Windows. During the Beta phase, we are giving all testers free access to Quick AI, along with the ability to use the AI models available in our Pro subscription. You can switch between available AI models in Settings.

This is just the first step in bringing Raycast’s powerful AI tools to Windows. We will improve Quick AI along the way and gradually start adding more of our advanced features such as AI Chat, AI Commands, AI Extensions, and others into the Windows experience.

✨ New

• Snippets and Quicklinks: You can now add dynamic placeholders to Snippets and Quicklinks. Initial support includes the Clipboard, UUID, Date, Date Time, Day, Time. Quicklinks also support Arguments.
• Extensions: We have added a load of new extensions, including Linear, Github, Notion, Slack, Google Translate and Youtube amongst others. Go check them out in the Store.
• Settings: You can now assign hotkey and aliases to system settings
• Snippets: Snippets now support rich text editing (bold, italics, strike-through, underline)
• Root search: Added a command ‘Copy Raycast Logs’ to copy your most recent two log files to the clipboard
• Root search: Control panel now appears as an application in root search
• Root search: Added a command to reset your Raycast Windows called ‘Reset Raycast Window Position’

💎 Improvements

• General: Improved focus management in the main window
• Calculator: Improved speed and performance
• Navigation: When deleting a search term, backspace doesn’t navigate back immediately after deleting the last character. Instead, you have to release the backspace key and press again to navigate back
• Navigation: Added shortcuts for the various copy actions found in the actions panel
• Navigation: Your Raycast window position will default to the center of your focused screen and remember where you last placed it
• General: Text is now selectable/copyable in certain places (clipboard, file search, changelog, etc)

🐞 Fixes

• Hotkeys: Raycast will now correctly pop up when you use a hotkey for a command that contains an alert
• Root search: Fixed an issue with Adobe not launching after opening it in Raycast
• Root search: Fixed fallback searches not working in other languages
• Calculator: Now takes into account your timezone and locale
• Calculator: Fixed visual of calculator item when not selected
• General: Fixed an issue where one could open multiple panels at once
• File search: Ensured recent files is refreshed in root search when deleting an entry

This release aims to fix a number of instability issues that you have experienced around Raycast crashing and issues with shortcuts going to sleep.

It also includes one other important change where we are moving from an non-encrypted to an encrypted database. This is for an extra layer of security on your data, especially because soon we will ship OAuth for extensions and will need to store your API tokens.

💎 Improvements

• Database encryption keys now survive app uninstalls.
• A local backup of your databases is performed upon upgrading, so you can safely downgrade without loosing your data if something goes wrong.
• Added an 'Exclude from Index' quick action to File Search
• Show in systems tray will now be persisted after restarting Raycast
• Added confirmation dialogs for Shutdown and Restart commands
• Localised names are now used for applications
• Exe files will now launch through Raycast
• Apps can also be minimised with the hotkey
• Added experimental support to open files with Files and OneCommander, if set as your default file manager.

🐞 Fixes

• Fixed Raycast crashing in the background due to our Clipboard History implementation
• Fixed Raycast hotkeys going to sleep
• Fixed database corruption issues.
• Removed system settings links from appearing in file search results

🐞 Fixes

• Fixed a logging issue that caused too many events to be logged

Following snippets, we’re now releasing the first iteration of Quicklinks: a powerful way to save time by storing frequently accessed links!

In this release, you can:

• Create and save Quicklinks for URLs and deeplinks
• Open Quicklinks from the root search
• Search your Quicklinks
• Assign shortcuts to your Quicklinks

We will continue iterating on this, and in future releases, we’ll be adding support for pinned Quicklinks, creating directory links, opening Quicklinks with different apps, categories, and improved organization features.

✨ New

• You can now access the info panel of a file in root search through a new quick action 'Show Details in File Search'
• Added a 'Open in Browser' quick action to links in Clipboard History
• Added support for shortcuts that use URI handlers. This enables your Steam applications to be launched through Raycast.

💎 Improvements

• Clipboard history entries get deduplicated from now on, so that when you copy the same content multiple times, it only appears once in your history. Deduplication only applies to new entries.
• Copied files that are images now show up in the images category in clipboard history in addition to the files category
• Tweaked the emoji search to return more results
• Quick Open will not appear if there is a space in the search term. This is to prevent it appearing for search queries.
• Updated our in app social links

🐞 Fixes

• Fixed an issue where toggling the info panel on or off wouldn’t be remembered
• Fixed an issue where pressing a hotkey wouldn’t move the active window to the right display
• Fixed an issue where Raycast would open randomly without using the hotkey or clicking the icon
• Fixed Delete Snippet shortcut to be Ctrl + Delete instead of Ctrl + Shift + Delete
• Fixed the UX of very long toast messages

The first iteration of Snippets is here! Snippets are a powerful way to save time by storing frequently used text.

In this release of Snippets, you can:

• Create plain text snippets
• Copy snippets or paste them to the frontmost application
• Pin your most used snippets

In future releases, we’ll be adding rich-text support, a better way to organize your snippets and keyword-based snippet expansion.

✨ New

• You can now customise the Emoji Picker’s columns, primary action, and skin tone through the Emoji & Symbols settings
• There is now a new Quick Open command that opens any URL passed to root search
• There are new system commands for controlling audio playback

💎 Improvements

• You can now assign a hotkey to any command, not just applications
• For files that appear in root search, there is now an action to view details in file search
• You can now find a Check For Updates button inside About settings
• There is now a new setting for how long Clipboard History is kept for
• Right clicking a list item will now open the action panel
• Open left action panel using ctrl shift K in root search

🐞 Fixes

• General improvements to application discovery
• Fixed an issue where sometimes the Settings menu item would be stuck in an inactive state
• The calculator now doesn’t react to small short keywords like “mon”, “tue”, etc.