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Raycast

Blazingly fast, totally extendable launcher

As of 30 August 2026, Raycast has a free plan and paid plans start at $10/month. Raycast is a blazingly fast, totally extendable launcher for macOS. Softwr lists it under Technology. Raycast is launched in 2020, available on macOS.

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

The honest half

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.

Free

Free

  • Core features: Clipboard History, Quicklinks, Calculator, Snippets, Window Management
  • Thousands of community extensions
  • 3-month clipboard history
  • 5 Raycast Notes

Pro

$10 /mo

  • Raycast AI with advanced models
  • Unlimited clipboard history
  • Unlimited notes
  • Cloud sync and dictation
  • Option to add Advanced AI for $8/month additional

Pro Annual

$8 /mo

  • Same as Pro plan
  • Annual billing saves 20% compared to monthly

Teams Free

Free

  • No cost per user
  • Shared extensions, snippets, and quicklinks

Teams Pro

$15 /mo

  • Unlimited team members
  • Shared extensions and snippets
  • Organization-wide admin controls

Capabilities

Features

  • Application launcher

  • File search

  • Clipboard history

  • Snippets

  • Window management

  • Calculator

  • System commands

  • Extension ecosystem

  • GitHub

    Integration with GitHub

  • Linear

    Integration with Linear

  • Notion

    Integration with Notion

  • Todoist

    Integration with Todoist

Answered, with sources

Questions people ask

Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.

Does Raycast offer a free plan?

Yes. Raycast has a free plan with core features including clipboard history, quicklinks, calculator, snippets, window management, and access to thousands of community extensions.

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How much does Raycast Pro cost?

Raycast Pro costs $10 per month or $8 per month when billed annually, saving 20% with yearly subscription.

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Does Raycast offer team plans?

Yes. Teams Free tier is available at no cost per user with shared extensions and snippets. Teams Pro costs $15 per user per month with unlimited team members.

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Behind it

Who makes Raycast

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

Timeline

Raycast over time

  1. Funding2024-09-25$30m

    Series B of $30M led by Atomico

    Source
  2. Launch2024-09-25

    Cross-platform expansion to Windows and iOS announced

    Source
  3. Funding2021-11-30$15m

    Series A of $15M led by Accel and Coatue

    Source
  4. Funding2020-10-29$2.7m

    Seed round of $2.7M led by Accel

    Source
  5. Founded2020-01-09

    Raycast Technologies Ltd incorporated

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