Raycast

“Raycast is krunner but with better UI, more features and more flexibility from plugin.”

“Raycast is successful because it's an incredibly widely used and adopted integration layer.”

“Making a Raycast/Vicinae (the pretty great open source port) integral feels like it would go a long way towards this end”

“I turned off spotlight entirely and replaced it with 3rd party software. I couldn't be happier with my choice.”

“the cost of the pro version (about $96 if paid annually) is a bit high just for the software”

“What's nice about raycast as a macOS pasteboard manager is that whatever you last selected via Cmd-Shift-V is the output of `pbpaste`.”

“Manage agents, make PRs, see status of fleet; all with a quick cmd+space.”

“keyboard shortcuts for clipboard manager, basic window management, pomodoro tracking and app launch”

“Sad to see them jettison such a solid native app for this. Most of all I don't understand why they released it half-baked.”

“On MacOS, there is already a service called Raycast AI. But its not free.”

“has a Switch Windows global hotkey (Opt + W) that brings up a list of all active windows and apps”

“I just use RayCast Hotkeys to bring mostly full-sized apps of my choice to the forefront and not worry about much”

“Raycast is a paid product. Even though they have a free tier, they only have that to get people to use and like the tool enough to pay for it.”

“viewing them negatively as a consequence of using pull requests as an advertising canvas”

“Had I not seen this thread, I would have assumed they consented to it, and I'd never willingly interact with Raycast or it's team in any way.”

“There's like 100 comments blaming raycast, they should just sue for damages lol.”

“Most of my common workflows are just raycast keybinds now or quickly typed in.”

“I've personally replaced keymacros by things like Alfred's workflows (or Raycast's)”

“After it failing to work so often, I found Raycast which has not failed me once.”

“Just get Raycast for what you mentioned, + much better (the bar is really low tbf) search”

“I see them improving Raycast (while working on this) including the AI features that I do use”

“its as toxic as the main product of raycast and they got away with it”

“As a Raycast paying user, I was a little bent that they have apparently not been focusing on the core product.”

“I'm not the target market for Raycast and I was feeling for a year or so that I was swimming upstream”

“I love Raycast. I would probably be called a "power user" - I use it all day long”

“Raycast replaced spotlight for me years ago. Highly recommend replacing your spotlight hotkey with it.”

“having predefined plugins for each use case is more performant , discoverable and usable.”

“This is a perfect example of why I use raycast & their window management shortcuts”

“even the free features blow out of the water any desktop management/productivity tooling I've used on Windows or Linux”

“I set up Raycast with the same keybinds as Magnet because I learned those first and haven't looked back.”

“For this kind of stuff Raycast is more than enough though. I use its window management features extensively.”

“That laggy behavior plus indexing not appearing to find some obvious files made me switch to Raycast.”

“I mainly use a custom prompt using ChatGPT via the Raycast app and the Raycast browser extension.”

“raycast (also cmd + space + couple letters), cmd + tab, and cmd + ‘ get me around quick enough!”

“the only thing keeping me off of Raycast is the VC funding, the AI-down-throat shoving”

“I couldn't prevent Raycast from phoning home even though I disabled AI, telemetry etc.”

“We already have hundreds of extensions to integrate with Notion, GitHub, Slack”

“There you just type the extension name to trigger it, which you can also set an alias for”

“Great piece of software and proud to advocate for its use on macOS to anyone willing to listen.”

“paid subscriptions, AI slop, and proprietary ripoffs of popular FOSS tools”