Raycast

I started with Raycast because of a friend who recommended it to me. And although I tried similar apps like Alfred and Monarch, I kept coming back to Raycast. Not necessarily because it's better (the other two are incredibly powerful too), just because at that point I had already developed a habit. So yeah, just be careful which one of these do you try first. There might not be a way back.

What a delightful little app. I made an extension to help with blockchain development (blockchain explorer search) and was surprised how easy local dev was. the review process also went well with a few helpful tips and got approved. The person I chatted with in slack was great and I'm a fan of their twitter presance as well. An essential mac app, and while there is now a paid plan, it's also free! How cool is that. H/t to the team, you've made a slick product!

Terrible experience, sure there are a tons of useless features than less than 2% users will need but the basics (finding files and folders) are terrible. Couldn't find a single folder even with the proper extension (cause yes, you need an extension for that, it's like word asking you an extension to bold or underlining a text...) But even worse, even after I uninstalled it through app cleaner, the moment I restarted my mac, I got an endless influx of notifications from the finder telling me it couldn't open raycast.app cause it was in the bin and to remove it from the bin. There was one notification every 10 seconds interrupting everything I was doing and even if I left the old one opened it still kept on coming enlessly. I tried everything but in the end the only way I found to stop it was to reinstall raycast after 1 hour losing my sh*t over this. Ridiculous...

By far my favorite productivity tool. Can do almost anything with tons of super powerful extensions for creating todos, github issues, starting/stopping Docker images, searching VS Code projects, control smart home lighting, quick access to meeting, on and on... All without ever leaving the app you're currently working with. And with Raycast Pro the quickest AI access there is, CMD + space -> type prompt -> tab and there you go. Love it!

Raycast is one of those rare tools that instantly feels essential. It’s fast, clean, and highly customizable. From launching apps to managing tasks and integrations, it streamlines everything. I’ve replaced both Spotlight and Alfred with it, and haven’t looked back. The steady updates and strong community make it even more valuable over time. It’s a must-have for anyone serious about productivity on macOS.

Without a doubt, I use Raycast more than any other app in my daily workflow. This is because it replaces spotlight and turns it into a hub where you can interact with any app you have. All from cmd+space, just like spotlight without leaving whatever you're doing, you can search for and pull up a contact profile from hubspot, or use ChatGPT, read a PDF, update a task in Notion, and then find a file deep in your folders.

Raycast has become an essential part of my daily workflow. I rely on it for accessing clipboard history, maintaining daily logs, engaging with AI chat, and retrieving saved text snippets. The Raycast notebook is also very handy because I can access it from within any application. It's a great way to quickly write notes and save them, as well as being able to search the notes from within the Raycast command window.

Raycast is one of the best tools available for Mac users. Once you get used to its shortcuts, aliases, workflows, floating notes, and integrated chat, it becomes indispensable. It truly feels like a Swiss Army knife for productivity! Their support service is also excellent and has been really helpful in resolving my issues.

I really like Spotlight on macOS, but Raycast adds a bunch of great features. I've tried Alfred, and although I like it, I can't really justify the price. I like that I can pretty easily write my own Raycast extensions, but I've found that I haven't really needed to since those that are already available cover my needs.

Way better search that built-in spotlight and integrated (and very good!) clipboard history manager make this *extremely* useful out of the box. I'm not a big fan of complicated self-configured tooling, but the plugin system looks clean, too, and there is quite interesting stuff in the library of plugins.