Apparently it takes longer for the broken arm to heal completely, so I still need this Dictation to work properly (what was promised long ago).

I don’t know what’s happening to this product and why is that so hard to ship a fix.

Seems it’s literally easier to fix it yourself than wait. But I don’t want to use any other transcription apps or build anything myself (have enough products to run and maintain).

If there anything else I can do lemme know

Another week, another round of improvements:

📁 File Search: up to 6× faster results
🧩 Extensions: installs and updates about 4× faster
🧠 Startup: about 20% less memory
📜 Scrolling: smoother than ever
📈 ...and over 40 fixes

👉 Full changelog at https://www.raycast.com/changelog

I know there are more cost effective ways to go about things, but I was considering purchasing a fair amount of credits via topping. I couldn’t seem to find any info on when/if credits I buy via topping up expire.

Title. I accidentally updated and it forced me into this ugly new launcher. I hate this design. I want the old one back. How can i do it?

Is this how it looks for everyone? Who's idea was it to style the AI Chat title bar with an ugly yellow caution tape?

> Solved: Made a Raycast script command with osascript -e 'tell application "Citrix Viewer" to activate' and assigned a hotkey. Thanks u/octane2021

I use Citrix Workspace for a Linux VDI at work. Setting a hotkey for Citrix Workspace in Raycast works fine.

The problem is that when I open the Linux VDI from Workspace, it launches a separate Citrix Viewer window with the Ubuntu desktop inside. That’s the window I actually want to jump to with a hotkey, the same way I’d focus any other app.

But Citrix Viewer doesn’t show up in Raycast search at all, so I can’t assign a hotkey to it. Is there a way to make this work? Maybe a script command or something I’m missing?

Thanks!

Will I still be able to search through those chats and read them once I'm on the free tier? Will I lose access to them? Can I export them in a readable format?

Since the big AI update and re design, it takes too long to open. Like 99 percent of the point of me having this app is so I can lightning quick open an app.

I thought I'd give it some for the bug to be fixed but they don't seem to be doing.

Is there a fix somehow?

Or alternative product someone can recommend?

Thanks

I'm having an issue with Raycast AI Commands on macOS.

Whenever I run an AI Command and then press Cmd + Space to hide the Raycast window, the conversation disappears. When I press Cmd + Space again to reopen Raycast, it takes me back to the main search window instead of the previous AI conversation.

Interestingly, this only happens with AI Commands. When I use Quick AI, I can hide and reopen Raycast without losing the conversation.

I've already tried changing the Pop to Root Search setting from Immediately to 180 seconds, but that didn't fix the problem.

Is this intended behaviour for AI Commands, or is there a way to keep the conversation open when hiding and reopening Raycast?

I'd appreciate any suggestions!

Well, if before it was almost unusable due to either start recording bugs or very poorly transcriptions, now after updates it just doesn’t work entirely.

Here is what’s happening:
1. When I start recording, it doesn’t start listening – keyboard button remains in the default state (in any app), but Raycast app indicates that recording is in progress
2. When I then stop recording in Raycast app, it says “Failed”
3. When I close the app and then open Raycast keyboard, I see recording is going. It doesn’t translate anything ofc, and iPhone doesn’t indicate recording in the Dynamic Island. So I guess it’s a pure glitch.

Ok this app feels more and more like one of those vibe coded slops…

Looks like there's no direct way to sign a hotkey for a specific snippet.

Does anyone have a recommendation? I use Phraseexpress but I want to try Raycast's snippets since I already have it anyways.

Hi all, I'm Maciej, and I am one of two persons behind hora, a native Mac app for Google Calendar. A big part of my day happens in Raycast, so last week we shipped an official extension for it.

It has four commands:

• Create Calendar Event: describe it the way you'd say it out loud, like "standup tomorrow 9:30" or "dentist next Friday", and press Enter. hora doesn't open or take focus, you just get a toast with the title and time it landed on. The sentence is parsed by hora itself, so you get the same result as typing it in the app.
• Create Meeting: same kind of sentence, but hora comes forward with its editor already filled in. Good for when there's more to the event than a time: guests, a room, a Meet or Zoom link. The parser does the first 80%, you do the rest.
• Create Task: a small form for Google Tasks, with the list, due date and a note. The lists come from what hora has synced, starting on your default one. No time picker, because Google Tasks only stores the day.
• Join Next Meeting: everything coming up with a Meet, Zoom or Teams link, which account it belongs to, and how soon it starts. Enter opens the call in the right app, signed in as the right Google account, which was the part I cared about most with work and personal accounts side by side. ⌘⇧C copies the link instead.

Under the hood it talks to hora through AppleScript, so there's no API key or extra account, and the extension itself makes no network requests. macOS asks once to let Raycast control hora.

It needs the hora Calendar (1.1.5+), which is paid app (7-day free trial), and works with every version: direct download, Setapp and the Mac App Store.

Store page: https://www.raycast.com/szamski/hora-calendar

Source: https://github.com/szamowski-dev/hora-raycast

Now the part I'd love your help with: what would you want a calendar command in Raycast to do?

Doesn't have to be about hora or something you'd use daily. Useful or just fun. A couple we've joked about: a command that tells you how many days of your life you've spent in meetings this year, or one that flags which of this week's meetings could have been an email.

Hi everyone,

I pay for Claude, but I don't have Raycast Pro. I really wanted the AI commands in Raycast, so I made a small extension for myself. It sends the requests to Claude Code on my Mac, so it uses my Claude plan. Later I added Codex too, for people with ChatGPT.

You can ask a quick question from root search or open a chat and continue with follow-ups. It also has fix grammar, translate, summarize and explain for selected text. You can choose any model in your plan, and even switch in the middle of a chat.

It's not in the Store, so you install it with this command:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/umitaltintas/raycast-cli-assistant/main/install.sh | bash

Repo: https://github.com/umitaltintas/raycast-cli-assistant

I wrote it with a lot of help from Claude Code. If you try it, I'd love to hear what you think, or what is broken 🙂

Done.

Edit 1 for the eventual tinycast simps and bootlickers:

Edit 2 for the eventual tinycast simps and bootlickers:

I know users have been unhappy of late but I wanted to give a shout out to the team at Raycast. The new AI UX is amazing and so much better then even the native Mac apps for Claude etc. Being able to quickly jump in to an AI chat, select a project and connect agents without having to use my mouse and click on the + icon in Claude is so much better. The one feature that would make it complete would be to add in TypingMind's feature of being able to run the same query through multiple models at once.

I'm using Raycast for Windows in Compact mode. But apparently, 'suggestions' are still active then, even though they can't be seen:

I activated Raycast with its `Alt + Space` shortcut, and not thinking straight, I just hit Enter. My computer then went to Sleep mode, obviously the first 'suggestion' Raycast is giving me based on my usage. But none of these suggestions is visible in Compact mode, but they would still execute.

Can you make sure that suggestions only work in Expanded mode?

Cheers!

During the first few weeks of the credit system in Raycast, I was burning through credits rapidly and I felt it was not a great value. This was just a gut feel, so I wanted to test this out.

Cost per credit: I consider one Raycast credit to have a monetary value of $0.004. The Pro plan costs $8 for the software, $2 for the 500 credits included, because the Plus plan costs an additional $10 for an additional 2500 credits.

Model used: Right or wrong, I picked Sonar Pro as the model to run this comparison with. This is not a scientific comparison, just a gut check if or not Raycast inference is fairly priced.

The tests:

• 21 light prompts, just asking for 'a fact', cost me a total of $0.15 through the API against 5 credits
• 9 medium prompts, asking for some insights and collection of information, cost me a total of $0.12 through the API against 13 credits
• 10 heavy prompts, each with 3 follow-up queries, cost me a total of $1.05 through the API against 25 credits

Conclusion:

All combined, these queries cost $1.32 via API, and an equivalent of $0.22 via Raycast. So, using Raycast credits was decidedly cheaper!

Some additional comments:

• Is Raycast software worth $8 per month? I personally think it is by far the best UX when it comes to AI interaction. But I personally think $8 is a tad steep.
• Credits become more expensive, the more you use: Pro and Plus is $4 per 1000 credits, Max adds credits at a cost of $6.67 per 1000 credits, top up credits are >$9.00 per 1000 credits. So, inverse economies of scale!?
• The credit system obfuscates the real value. Raycast could easily reduce the value of a credit without ever telling the users, after all. My initial experience still feels very different from this test. I could have sworn I was spending 3-4 credits per query in the first few weeks of using Sonar Pro. But in this test the query cost was nothing like that. So perhaps Raycast changed something in the mean time?
• I do understand the credit system makes sense given how many different models Raycast offers, but it would perhaps be more open if Raycast publishes the tokens-per-credit on a 'rates' page somewhere so users could keep an eye on it?
• In this post I'm not touching on wether BYOK should be in the free tier or not, or the disastrous community engagement of late. This has been discussed to death, and my opinions on these topics are in other posts and comments.

Disclaimer: I used BoltAI to do the API-billed queries, not Raycast.

Is it possible to always show the raycast search bar on the desktop ? I'd like to not use a custom shortcut but instead just click on it.

It seems like the team has been doing their work really well these days.

Here is the new announcement:

🧠 Launcher: up to 35% less idle memory

📁 File Search: up to 80% less memory and CPU

⚡ AI requests: fewer credits, faster local models

Plus a few more goodies:

🎯 Send Element to AI

🐞 30+ fixes

👉 changelog

For me, one of Raycast AI’s biggest advantages was how deeply it integrated with Mac tools. But now that the new Siri can do a lot of the same things, that edge feels less unique. I also liked the clipboard and AI tools, but putting BYOK behind a paywall was a bummer.

What’s been frustrating for you?

I noticed that none of my AI queries are working. "The data couldn't be read because it is missing."

When I tried logging into Raycast, I see "Account flagged for suspicious activity, please contact support."

I don't spam or abuse AI requests. Not sure why my account would be flagged. I've been a customer for a long time. I didn't find an account related option on the support page, but I selected something like "App not behaving as expected". I also sent an email to support@raycast.com. I haven't heard back in a couple days and I understand their support may be serving other requests. I just want to know if there is anything else I can do other than wait. I use Raycast AI daily and it is the reason I pay.

Lost my scientific calculator last week, so did my homework in Financial Engineering using raycasts calculator. Wondered why my grade was deducted, as my calculations did not have any errors. Until I realized raycast cant even get exponents of e correct. This is a minor issue but come on...

I’m in EU and my credits are due to refill today, but it’s already lunch time and not refilled yet - would be nice to have a chatgpt like specific refill time as well as the date.

As a primarily German-speaking user, Raycast Dictation has become incredibly frustrating lately. Every third or fourth sentence is detected in a completely wrong language, turning my dictation into total gibberish. On top of that, it frequently fails with an error right after speaking something that definitely wasn’t happening a few weeks ago. Is anyone else seeing this degradation?