Changelog

📝 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

Sequoia Ready

While there are no major new features, we've focused on ironing out few bits to make Raycast run smoothly on Sequoia. Enjoy improved stability and performance!

💎 Improvements

• Quicklinks: Import or export Quicklinks in JSON format using new commands “Import Quicklinks” and “Export Quicklinks”. They can also be exported using an action from the search
• AI Commands: Built-in commands previously using the Open AI GPT-3.5 Turbo model now use GPT-4o mini

🐞 Fixes

• Window Management: Fixed Next/Previous Display shortcuts not working after attaching new displays while Raycast is running
• Window Management: Fixed pasting from Clipboard History to “Create Window Layout” window text fields
• AI Chat: Fixed “Active Document from App” appearing when no documents were available
• Clipboard History: Fixed the first item being selected after deleting an entry
• Account Preferences: Resolved issues with trial information displayed incorrectly on the account page for referrals

✨ Bug fixes & Improvements

While this is a small release, it includes a private beta for the major feature that people have been asking for a while – the next iteration of floating notes. Before we roll it out to everyone, we want to test it with a small group of people to iron out the experience. You can apply for the beta in our Slack Community. Hopefully, the private beta phase won’t take long, and we will make this feature available to everyone soon.

💎 Improvements

• Translator: Added new Actions and keyboard shortcuts to switch Source and Target languages
• Markdown: Improved indentation of numbered lists

🐞 Fixes

• Misc: Fixed lags when launching Raycast on macOS Sequoia Beta
• AI: Fixed “Active Document in Frontmost App” unable to get the document on macOS Sequoia
• AI: Fixed occasional crash when opening a markdown link
• AI Chat: Ensure syntax highlighting does not block the app
• Menu Bar: Fixed issue where menu bar item with missing icon caused a hang
• Menu Bar: Fixed an issue where menu bar item could be duplicated
• Markdown: Fixed incorrect paragraph spacing before line breaks

LaTeX Support

How do I solve a quadratic equation? Now you see the results rendered beautifully with LaTeX in AI Chat and Quick AI 🥳. We also support LaTeX in a few other places such as extension detail view Markdown. See the manual for more details.

✨ New

• AI Commands: You can now set a default model for custom AI Commands in Settings → AI. Any custom commands that have the Default model selected will dynamically use whichever model is set as default.

💎 Improvements

• My Schedule: updated the logo for Webex
• Search AI Commands: Select multiple commands and batch change the model or creativity. This makes it much easier to update commands when new models become available
• AI Chat: We’ve added a Full Content Width setting to control the width of the chat content for larger window sizes. By default Full Content Width is disabled
• Auto Quit: Now compatible with Cloud Sync, so your auto quit settings will automatically sync and be applied across all your Macs.

🐞 Fixes

• Window Management: Increased timeout period to 15 s for apps that take very long to open
• Window Management: Added support for resizing fullscreen windows
• Action Panel: Fixed unexpected disabling of action menu items
• Root Search: Fixed text clipping when moving through history items with arrow keys
• Clipboard History: Fixed duplicated image entry when copying the same remote image from clipboard history
• Send Screen to AI Chat: Addressed issue where the attachment would not load in macOS 14
• Misc: Capturing the selected text no longer resets the Raycast window position

🪟 Window Layout Improvements

We improved the recently released Window Layouts with support for multiple monitors and opening files or links. This allows you to quickly open your code editor, browser, and terminal for a specific project with a single command.

Here’s what’s new in short:

• Multiple monitors: Position and resize your windows on built-in and external monitors.
• Open content: Select a URL, file or Quicklink to open in your apps with the Window Layout.

To get started, use the Create Window Layout Command. Then add a few apps, assign them to designated monitors, resize the windows as you want, and select a URL, file, or Quicklink to open.

Pro tip: Assign a global hotkey to your Window Layouts to open them with a single keystroke.

💎 Improvements

• Auto Quit: Apps will not be automatically terminated while actively playing music or using your video camera/microphone. This feature is convenient for apps like Spotify or Zoom that you may want to put on hold when not used.
• Auto Quit: You can now choose the interval after which apps are automatically terminated. Search for an app, select "Configure Application," and set the interval. The default is 3 minutes.
• Store: You can now see Past Contributors in the extension overview.
• AI Chat: Send Screen to AI Chat will now send the screen containing the mouse cursor.
• AI Attachments: Support Visual Studio Code file attachments using drag & drop.

🐞 Fixes

• AI Chat: Search is now cleared when continuing to AI Chat from Quick AI.
• Create Snippets: Fixed URL being pasted twice in Snippet text field.
• Hotkey: Global hotkey now unhides app if windows are minimized.
• Misc: Fixed bug causing macOS Sequoia beta freeze when Screen & Audio Recording alert appears.

🙅 Auto Quit Applications

Work is busy. We open apps, switch between them, and often get carried away. But what if distractions wouldn’t stay around?! You could simply focus on coding, designing, or what matters in the moment. Well, say hello to Auto Quits. Simply enable Auto Quit for apps like Slack, and they get terminated after 3 minutes of inactivity. This is another step towards keeping you in the flow, with a new way of experiencing your computer where distractions aren't just easier to resist, but are completely out of sight.

To enable auto-quitting for your applications, select the app in the root search or the settings and click "Enable Auto Quit". Afterward, the app will terminate after 3 minutes of inactivity. To disable it, follow the same steps and select "Disable Auto Quit". We recommend enabling it for apps you don't rely on for your work and want to use only temporarily, such as chats, calendars, or social media apps.

💎 Improvements

• AI Chat Presets: Added an action to copy the deeplink to a preset. Opening the deeplink will start a new AI Chat with that preset.
• Improved the consistency of the order of displays when running the “Next/Previous Display” command
• Calculator: You can now specify the fallbackText in the deeplink of the “Calculator History” command to link to a specific calculation
• Calculator: 6-digit hex colors that aren’t prefixed by # are now recognised as colors in the root search. Try it: FF6363
• AI Attachments: Added support to missing text based file types (including .go , .ts )
• Misc: Reduced memory footprint. Added a “Cache Diagnostics” tool to gather logs about image memory and disk caching.
• Window Management: Change text fields values with up/shift+up/down/shift+down key combinations in Create Command sheet
• Window Management: Save Create Command sheet text fields unit preferences to user defaults

🐞 Fixes

• Calculator: The results will now correctly be in your system timezone (even if you change timezones)
• Search Menu Items: Addressed issue where menu titles were truncated early
• Create Snippets: Fixed emoji not being pasted in the rich text editor
• My Schedule: Improved link detection reliability when the event contains HTML
• Root Search: Fixed pasting number columns copied from Excel
• Main Window: Fixed resetting compact main window position through shortcut
• Window Management: Fixed resizing minimized apps windows
• Window Management: Moved all windows to screen containing mouse when applying a layout
• Window Management: Fixed syncing layout records with previous version
• Run Last Command: Fixed running in compact mode and when compact mode is expanded through "Show More”

🪟 Window Layouts

We're introducing Create Window Layout Command, a dynamic new addition to custom window management that allows you to create ideal app layout configurations for your optimal workflow.

✨ New

• Affiliate Program: You can now earn 30% commission by joining our Affiliate Program and sharing Raycast with your audience. If you’re logged in, look out for the “Become an Affiliate” and “Open Affiliate Dashboard” commands. Read our blog post to learn more.
• Quicklink Icons: You can now set a custom icon for quicklinks. Choose from any icon in our icon set when you are creating or editing a Quicklink

💎 Improvements

• Renamed the “Summarize Website” and “Ask Website” AI Commands to “Summarize Webpage” and “Ask Webpage” for a more accurate description of their functionality
• Quicklink: The “autofill” feature now works with Arc
• AI Chat: cmd + q will now close the AI Chat window
• AI Chat: Add a setting to control the return key behavior when sending a message. You can now choose to use ⌘↵ to submit a message and have ↵ insert a new line in the composer
• AI Chat: Added a Clipboard action to insert the current clipboard contents as an attachment
• Clipboard History: Six-digit hexadecimal color codes copied from Graphics & Design apps are now automatically interpreted as colors
• Send Feedback: A category can be assigned when submitting a feedback
• Quit All Applications: The command will now close Raycast windows, including the AI Chat and Floating Notes, by default. You can turn off this behaviour in the command's settings

🐞 Fixes

• Quicklink: Fixed copying the link of a Quicklink to a file. Previously it would actually copy the file itself.
• AI Chat: Fixed cmd + Number being off by one in the sidebar when having the New Chat selected.
• AI Chat: Fixed text grabbing from Google Docs and Slides.
• AI Chat: Message submission is blocked until attachments are processed
• AI Chat: Do not insert attachments when pasting text into the composer
• AI Chat: Avoid prepending a new line when copying a code block

📎 AI Chat Attachments

Chatting goes beyond just text. For years, we've shared files through emails, images through messages, and links in our workspaces. Today, we're bringing attachments to AI Chat to enable richer conversations the way we used to. You can now attach files like PDFs, screenshots, images, and even tabs using our browser extension

Click the new plus button in the AI Chat composer or press “⌘ ⇧ A” to add an attachment. You can add multiple attachments and mix and match them. Or checkout our collaboration with CleanShot to send your screenshots to AI Chat the easy way. Give it a try!

🆓 Raycast Pro Free 14-Days Trial

Haven’t experienced Raycast Pro yet?! You can now try all Pro features for free for 14 days, including AI, custom themes, custom window management commands, and more. Simply search for “Upgrade to Pro” in Raycast to start the trial or visit https://ray.so/free-trial.

✨ New

• Dynamic Placeholders: Added a new json-stringify modifier
• Quicklink Icons: You can now set a custom icon for quicklinks. Choose from any icon in our icon set when you creating or editing a Quicklink.

💎 Improvements

• Calendar: You can now join FaceTime and chorus.ai video meetings right from Raycast
• Quit All Applications: The command now includes Raycast windows by default. You can customize this behavior in the command's settings.

🐞 Fixes

• Window Management: Fixed window moving to next/previous desktop.
• Switch Windows: Fixed tracking windows of apps that were launched after the initial command use.
• Siri Shortcuts: Fixed multithreading crashes on system with a big number of shortcuts.

🔗 Dynamic Placeholders in Quicklinks

Unleash the power of Quicklinks with a whole new set of Dynamic Placeholders! You can now use the same Dynamic Placeholders in Quicklinks as in Snippets and AI Commands. And with Modifiers, you can now decide whether an argument will be percent-encoded or not

✨ New

• AI Chat Presets are now available in root search. So you can quickly open a new chat based on a preset and assign a hotkey or alias to frequently used ones

💎 Improvements

• AI Chat: Improved keyboard navigation by highlighting toolbar elements
• AI Chat: When created via a preset, new chats display the preset name and icon in the status bar
• AI Chat Presets: You can now set a custom icon for your presets 🤪
• AI Image Generation: Quick Look action directly displays the image without a submenu. You can also double-click an image to Quick Look
• Root Search: Improved matching logic to avoid triggering calculator when typing query like “2fa”

🐞 Fixes

• Theme Studio: A tooltip now appears when hovering the color hex info icon
• AI Chat: Fixed an issue where the setting status icon size could be incorrect
• AI Image Generation: Creating image placeholder is not shown anymore when reloading an already generated image
• Window Management: Fixed an issue that prevented hotkeys and aliases from being synced for custom Window Management commands
• Cloud Sync: Fixed an issue where hotkeys and aliases were not registered correctly after fetching remote changes
• Misc: Fix main window opening in incorrect screen when displays share one space
• System Settings: Fix Network command opening Wi-Fi pane