Raycast

Name: Raycast
Availability: InStock
Author: Raycast

Blazingly fast, totally extendable launcher

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Overview

What Raycast does

Raycast is a blazingly fast, totally extendable launcher for macOS. It lets you complete tasks, calculate, share common links, and much more. With its powerful extension ecosystem, you can customize it to fit your workflow perfectly.

What people use it for

App launching
Quick calculations
File navigation
Snippet expansion
Workflow automation

Where it falls short

Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Raycast.

The free plan includes 50 Raycast AI messages, 5 notes and 3 months of clipboard history
Advanced AI models are sold only as an add-on to the paid Pro plan at a further $8 per month on top of the $10 subscription
Free team workspaces cap sharing at 30 snippets, 30 quicklinks and 5 commands across all extensions
Teams Pro is $15 per user per month, billed per seat rather than per workspace

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Pricing

What Raycast costs

Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.

Personal

Free

Core launcher features
All built-in extensions
Extension store access
Clipboard history
Window management

Pro

$8 /mo

Everything in Personal
AI commands
Cloud sync
Unlimited clipboard history
Custom themes
Priority support

Team

$12 /mo

Everything in Pro
Shared extensions
Team snippets
Admin controls
SSO

Capabilities

Features

Application launcher
Application launcher capability
File search
File search capability
Clipboard history
Clipboard history capability
Snippets
Snippets capability
Window management
Window management capability
Calculator
Calculator capability
System commands
System commands capability
Extension ecosystem
Extension ecosystem capability
GitHub
Integration with GitHub
Linear
Integration with Linear
Notion
Integration with Notion
Todoist
Integration with Todoist

Behind it

Who makes Raycast

Company: Raycast
Based in: London, United Kingdom
Founders: Thomas Paul Mann, Petr Nikolaev

Timeline

Raycast over time

Funding2024-09-25$30m
Series B of $30M led by Atomico
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Launch2024-09-25
Cross-platform expansion to Windows and iOS announced
Source
Funding2021-11-30$15m
Series A of $15M led by Accel and Coatue
Source
Funding2020-10-29$2.7m
Seed round of $2.7M led by Accel
Source
Founded2020-01-09
Raycast Technologies Ltd incorporated
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