Changelog

AI Extensions Beta

Part of what makes Raycast special is our rich, customizable extension ecosystem. As of today, extensions are getting a little smarter, and a lot more useful.

Introducing: AI Extensions

Setup a coding workflow, organize your day, book some time with a colleague on the fly... AI Extensions let you do this directly from Raycast without ever having to open an app or the browser. And all of this using simple, natural language.

Find your favorite extensions, now AI enabled, using the new filter in the Store. Once installed, simply type @ to explore the possibilities. AI Extensions can be used across Raycast AI. They’re supported in Quick AI, AI Chat, AI Commands, and AI Chat Presets.

Learn more about the new feature here.

Learn how to use AI Extensions from Thomas and Pedro → https://youtu.be/sHIlFKKaq0A?si=RiGamvGhg3Hkrk2z

💎 Improvements

• Raycast Focus: Added an option to define apps & websites you want to allow instead of blocking them. In Allow mode, all apps and websites except the ones you enter will be blocked. Find the switch in the Start Focus Session command.
• Raycast Focus: Added the Allow mode to the Shortcuts and system Focus filter. You may need to restart your Mac for the updated Shortcuts and filter to work.

🐞 Fixes

• Raycast Focus: Fixed label contrast in indefinite session menu bar item
• Open In Editor: Fixed an issue where opening items with the default editor would incorrectly open Finder instead

🎯 Custom Focus Categories

Raycast Focus became even more powerful! Introducing Custom Focus Categories, a new way to take control of your focus sessions. Now you can create personalized groups of apps and websites that align with your workflow, ensuring distractions stay at bay when you need to concentrate.

To get started, open Raycast and search Create Focus Category.

Learn more about the new feature here.

✨ New

• Raycast Focus: You can now set a Focus filter at the system level to start a Raycast Focus session simultaneously with a system Focus, such as Do Not Disturb. For more information on setting it up, visit the manual page.
• Raycast Focus: Added two Apple Shortcuts to automatize your focus workflows: Start Focus Session and Complete Focus Session. Learn more about these Shortcuts here.

💎 Improvements

• Hyper Key: You can now opt-out of using the Shift key with Hyper key. Toggle this option in Raycast Advanced settings. This allows you to remap Hyper key to either ⌃⌥⇧⌘ or ⌃⌥⌘.
• Hyper Key: You can now use function keys (F1, F2...) to act as Hyper key
• Raycast Focus: Added session information to the status bar item's menu
• Raycast Focus: Introduced a deeplink to complete a session: raycast://focus/complete
• Raycast Focus: Included some RSS apps and websites in the News built-in category
• Raycast Focus: Changed the focus session status bar item icon to a standard monochrome icon for sessions with unlimited duration
• Raycast Focus: Added possibility to turn off sounds. Raycast Settings → Extensions → Raycast Focus → Play Sound toggle.
• Raycast AI: Added an option to configure web search for Quick AI. To change, go to Raycast Settings → AI → Quick AI Model → Web Search.
• Raycast AI: Remembers your recently used models and shows them on the top in the model selector.

🐞 Fixes

• Raycast Focus: Fixed issues with favicon and app icon loading in the block field
• Raycast Focus: Resolved the empty floating bar problem when using Toggle Focus Session before starting any session
• Raycast Focus: Fixed the handling of https://www. prefixed URLs by the website blocker
• Raycast Focus: Fixed the main Raycast window focus session item showing an empty subtitle when less than a minute remains to complete the session
• Raycast Focus: Improved the duration picker to handle "Until " (e.g., "Until 1am")

✦ Hyper Key

Put your unused keys to work with our new Hyper Key feature. Transform a single key, such as Caps Lock, into the Hyper Key, which combines all four modifiers: ⌃⌥⌘⇧. This additional modifier key enhances your keyboard shortcuts across all apps, serving as a lightweight companion for boosting productivity with Raycast and other applications.

To customize the Hyper Key, go to Settings → Advanced → Hyper Key.

Read more about the new feature here!

💎 Improvements

• Raycast Focus: Added an option to reopen apps that were closed at the beginning of a session after the session is completed
• Raycast Focus: Added support for Firefox, Zen Browser, Chromium, Ecosia, Orion, Vivaldi, and Yandex
• Raycast Focus: Added automatic pause of the active focus session when the system goes to sleep

🐞 Fixes

• AI Chat: Preset name now displays correctly again when opening a new chat

🧬 API

✨ New

More AI models added in Raycast 1.90.0 are now also part of the API:

• DeepSeek R1² reasoning model (powered by Together AI) and its distilled version¹ (powered by Groq)
• OpenAI o1-mini² and o1-preview² reasoning models
• OpenAI o3-mini¹
• Google Gemini 1.5 Flash¹ and Gemini 1.5 Pro², Gemini 2.0 Flash¹ and Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking¹ models
• xAI Grok-2² model
• Perplexity Sonar¹, Sonar Pro² and Sonar Reasoning¹ models

¹ available with Raycast Pro ² available with Raycast Pro + Advanced AI

🐞 Fixes

• Window Management: Added missing types for getActiveWindow.

🐋 More AI Models

It’s not easy to stay up-to-date with all the new AI models that pop up every so often. Let alone actually try them and experience them first-hand. That’s why we’re continuing with our vision of building one UI that supports many models.

Today, we're adding a bunch of new models to Raycast AI! Including DeepSeek’s R1, which has taken the world by surprise last week. Reasoning models such as R1 and the new Sonar Reasoning are fascinating. They bridge the gap between raw data and human-like decision making. Aside from these reasoning models, we’ve also added new models from Google Gemini, xAI Grok, Perplexity, and OpenAI.

✨ New

• DeepSeek R1² reasoning model (powered by Together AI) and it's distilled version¹ (powered by Groq)
• OpenAI o1-mini² and o1-preview² reasoning models
• Google Gemini 1.5 Flash¹ and Gemini 1.5 Pro², Gemini 2.0 Flash¹ and Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking¹ models
• xAI Grok-2² model
• Perplexity Sonar¹, Sonar Pro² and Sonar Reasoning¹ models

¹ available with Raycast Pro
² available with Raycast Pro + Advanced AI

🐞 Fixes

• Raycast Focus: Fixed the issue of websites prefixed with “www.” not being blocked
• Raycast Focus: Fixed the redirection of any website with the "redirect_url" query parameter when a session is active
• Raycast Focus: Fixed the issue of blocked websites disappearing from the form during session editing
• AI: Improved model fallback when the current chat’s model is no longer available
• AI: Fixed the Copy Log action

🎯 Raycast Focus

Two thirds of our time gets lost from context switching. Everything fights for our attention. We get it, it’s hard to resist checking Social Media, News or that last notification. Well, until today…

We’re launching Raycast Focus that lets you achieve your goals without any distractions. Simply use the “Start Focus Session” command to get started. Set a goal, define the duration you want to work on it, and select the apps and websites you want to block.

See it in action in this video and learn how to get the most out of the feature with our manual.

✨ New

• Added an “Attach to AI Chat” quick action on File Search and Clipboard History to add files as AI attachments

💎 Improvements

• Clipboard History: Added confirmation dialog when reducing the history length
• Raycast Notes: You can now hide notes window when sharing or recording screen. Use “Hide While Screen Sharing” menu item in the action panel
• Raycast Notes: Added action menu items for moving list items up/down and for opening Raycast Notes Settings
• Raycast Notes: Improved inline code when used in between parenthesis

🐞 Fixes

• Window Management: Resolved an issue where the menu bar height in the display preview would sometimes be incorrect when creating a multi-display layout
• Raycast Notes: Removed beeping sound when moving list item down with a shortcut
• Raycast Notes: Resolved an issue with tab behavior when nesting list items
• Account Settings: Fixed the subscription information for organizations
• Extension Settings: Fixed a bug where AI Commands would not appear when searching
• Flight Tracker: Fixed incorrect flight duration calculation when flight is delayed

🎁 Raycast Wrapped 2024

It's time to reflect on your productivity over the past year. Get insights on Raycast launches, AI usage, top extensions and applications, time spent on meetings, developer stats, and a lot more!

Get a better understanding of how you’ve used Raycast, broken down by the hour, what features you use the most, and maybe some features you’re missing out on.

Post a snapshot of your stats and summary by clicking Copy as Image in each section, then paste your media to share.

Disclaimer: Most of the data displayed is stored locally, and Raycast does not have access to it. If you moved between machines during the year, some of the data might have been lost. If you’ve used Raycast for less than 14 days, you will not have enough data to be displayed – but there’s always next year!

💎 Improvements

• Raycast Notes: You can now find and replace text in the note by pressing ⌘F or by using the “Find in Note” action in the action panel
• Raycast Notes: You can now increase or decrease note content scale with ⌘= and ⌘- shortcuts or by using “Zoom In” and “Zoom Out” actions in the action panel. The “Reset Zoom” action will make note content follow the general Raycast text size setting

🐞 Fixes

• Window Management: Fixed commands failing on Outlook window
• System Settings Extension: Brought back commands for accessing inner System Settings preference panes such as Keyboard Shortcuts or Current Network Details
• Raycast Notes: Improved highlighting of selected text

⚙️ Manage Auto Quits

A few weeks ago, we released Auto Quits, a feature that automatically quits applications after a period of inactivity. So far, Raycast auto-quit more than 1M applications. To make it easier to configure the feature, we’ve introduced a new Manage Auto Quits command. The command gives you an overview of your apps, lets you quickly change the interval, and for Pro users, lets you smartly set up multiple distracting apps at the same time.

Read more about the feature here and enjoy staying in the flow!

💎 Improvements

• Browser Extension: When clicking on the Raycast icon in your browser, the “Ask About Webpage” command will be focused automatically

🐞 Fixes

• Window Management: Fixed Next/Previous Desktop commands on Sequoia
• Calendar: Fixed Cal.com icon in menu bar
• Deeplinks: Removed security alert showing when opening a deeplink from quicklink
• Raycast Notes: Fixed showing upgrade to Pro alert when trying to recover recently deleted note for some Pro users
• Raycast Notes: Fixed an issue that could result in the creation of two welcome notes for some users
• Raycast Notes: Fixed scroll position jump when deleting note from search list
• Raycast Notes: Fixed an issue where copying to and pasting from notes window wouldn’t work in some extensions
• Quicklinks: Fixed an issue where some special characters could be percent-encoded twice
• AI Chat: Fixed occasional crash in markdown rendering of images coupled with code blocks

🌐 Safari Browser Extension

Earlier this year we released a companion browser extension for Chromium-based browsers. Since then, we expanded its capabilities with AI Attachments and API. Today, we are releasing the same browser extension for Safari, bringing all its goodies to users who prefer Apple’s browser.

✨ New

• AI Attachments: Added a new attachment for Raycast Notes

📝 Raycast Notes Improvements

• You can now copy whole note or selected text as markdown/HTML/plain text
• You can now share a note to other apps like Apple Notes, iMessage, etc. Use the “Export…” action in the action panel
• You can now choose to close the window or unfocus it on the escape key. Set the behavior in Raycast Settings
• Navigation history is saved when Raycast is restarted
• Added toggling between character count and word count in note footer
• Added ⌥⌘, a shortcut for toggling the format bar
• Added button for creating a new note from browser empty state
• Increased menu bar button image size
• Reorganized note action panel items
• Fixed notes list scrolling in the Search Notes command

🐞 Fixes

• Clipboard History: Fixed the issue where a newly copied item was not selected after quickly opening the clipboard history search
• Search Menu Items: Added missing globe modifier key icon
• AI Commands: Fixed full command prompt being added to the search bar history when using the arrow up
• AI Chat: Fixed the issue of QuickLook failing to display images copied as AI attachments

📝 Raycast Notes

Today, our beloved little Floating Notes have grown up and turned into Raycast Notes. It’s a lightweight and frictionless experience with new features:

1. Formatting: You can now format your notes with Markdown, a simple Format Bar, or common keyboard shortcuts.
2. Multiple Notes: It comes with 5 free notes, and with a Pro subscription, you can create an unlimited number of notes.
3. Deeply Integrated: It’s seamlessly integrated into Raycast’s ecosystem. Commands in the root search enable you to create and search your notes. An inline emoji picker allows for self-expression, while AI Commands ensure your grammar is always correct.

This is a big overhaul of one of the features that became table-stakes for many of us. Special thanks to our beta testers who helped us get here. Read more in our blog post and manual page.

💎 Improvements

• AI Chat / Quick AI: Added a Copy Log action which can be useful when reporting errors etc
• Calculator: In addition to minor fixes, several improvements have been made to the calculator.
  • Data transfer functions: calculate the duration of file transfers (e.g., “time to 3GB at 10 MB/s” results in 300s)
  • Speeding up time functions: use a multiplier with a duration (e.g., “54 minutes at 1.5x” results in 36 min)
  • Financial functions: calculate interest-related queries (e.g., "savings required for $10k/month @ 5.6%” results in $2.143M)
  • Percentage functions: calculate the percentage of one number based on an amount (e.g., “1k on 100k” results in 1% and “50 off 150” yields 33%)
  • Lunar day: get the current day of the lunar cycle (e.g., “lunar day” or “lunar day on December 25th, 2025)
  • Units: added cubic micrometer & square nanometer units and support for unit expressions with a fractional value, like "1 1/2 pounds"
  • Currencies: Polygon symbol (formerly MATIC) was updated to POL. Additionally, Wei and Gwei sub-denominations of ETH have been added.

🐞 Fixes

• Shortcuts: Fixed crashes occurring when retrieving Siri Shortcuts through Scripting Bridge. If you ever disabled Siri Shortcuts through defaults, now it is time to re-enable them.
• AI Chat: Ensure the frontmost app is focused when closing the chat window
• Settings: Do not reset detail view scroll position when reloading
• Cloud Sync: Improved error handling when enabling sync
• Misc: Addressed the issue with macOS Sequoia 15.0 Beta 1 to 4 and 15.1 Beta 1, where the app crashes at launch. In these specific OS versions, a breaking change in Apple frameworks prevents Raycast from functioning normally. If you are using these versions, you will see an alert and must update your system to the latest available macOS version.
• Window Management: Fixed screens sorting to be consistent in all cases

⌨️ Escape Key Behavior

You can now customize the behavior of the Raycast window when the Escape key is pressed. By default, it clears the search bar and navigates back. However, users transitioning from other launchers may expect the window to close when the Escape key is pressed. You can change the behavior in Settings → Advanced Settings → Escape Key Behavior.

💎 Improvements

• Eject All Disks: Now ignores iOS 18 simulator disk images
• Fallback Commands: Commands can now be reordered using drag-and-drop
• Clipboard History: Disabling Update History after action now only applies to actions run in the Clipboard History command
• Search Emoji & Symbols: Added symbols for Return, Tab, Escape, and Forward-Delete keys

🐞 Fixes

• Auto Quit: Removed the Auto Quit action for Finder, which cannot be terminated
• Search Bar: Added error toasts informing the user about reaching the character limit when pasting text
• Quick AI: Regenerating after changing the model should now utilize the new model
• AI Preferences: Fixed the issue of the model dropdown closing automatically after a period
• Clipboard History: Fixed the incorrect item selection when searching for an item
• Misc: Fixed the selection of the wrong item in lists when a user has more than 12 pinned items