Raycast

Your Shortcut to Everything

Raycast is a powerful, extendable launcher that transforms how you interact with your computer. Designed for professionals who value speed and efficiency, it provides instant access to a collection of productivity tools through a single keyboard shortcut. Think in milliseconds—Raycast is built to be fast, ergonomic, and reliable, with a 99.8% crash-free rate.

What It Does

Raycast consolidates your favorite tools and workflows into one unified interface. Search for files, manage calendar events, control music playback, access passwords, create tasks, search browser history, compress images, and much more—all without leaving your keyboard. With thousands of extensions available in the Raycast Store, you can integrate services like Linear, Slack, Notion, Spotify, Google Chrome, 1Password, JIRA, Zoom, and Arc directly into your workflow.

Built-In AI Agent

Raycast AI serves as your virtual assistant, seamlessly integrating with the tools you already use. It can sync Linear tasks to Things, summarize documents, draft emails, block calendar time, explain errors, and access real-time knowledge anywhere in your OS. Quick AI lives a single hotkey away, letting you interact with AI without disrupting your workflow. AI Extensions connect all your everyday tools so the assistant can work in the same places you do.

Key Features & Capabilities

• Snippets – Create text snippets and insert them by typing a keyword, eliminating repetitive typing • Quicklinks – Launch websites, apps, or services instantly with custom shortcuts • Hotkeys & Aliases – Assign keyboard shortcuts to any command or application • Window Management – Control window positions and layouts with ease • Clipboard History – Never lose copied content again • Raycast Notes – Quick note-taking without switching apps • Emoji Picker – Fast emoji search and insertion • Calculator, File Search, Timers, Pomodoro – Essential utilities built in • Cross-Platform – Available on macOS and Windows

For Developers

Raycast's extension API allows anyone with web development skills to build custom tools. The platform provides a strongly typed API, built-in UI components, hot-reloading, and modern tooling. Extensions built once work on both macOS and Windows, and can be published to the Raycast Store to share with thousands of users.

Who It's For

Raycast is designed for professionals—developers, designers, product managers, creators, and anyone who wants to stop wasting time navigating between apps. Used by teams at Vercel, OpenAI, Framer, and thousands of productive individuals worldwide, Raycast transforms your computer into an AI-native operating system where everything is just a keystroke away.