Changelog

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.

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.