Raycast

📋 Specifications

✍️ Editor Review

Top Extensions for Developers

• GitHub: Search repos, create issues, review PRs without leaving keyboard
• Brew: Install and manage Homebrew packages from Raycast
• Linear: Create and search issues instantly
• Color Picker: Pick any color from screen, copy hex/rgb
• Tailwind CSS: Search utility classes and get color previews

What the Free Version Includes

• App launcher: 3x faster than Spotlight with fuzzy search
• Clipboard history: saves last 200 copied items, fully searchable
• Window management: keyboard-driven window resizing, replaces Magnet
• Code snippets: store templates that expand from keywords
• 1000+ extensions: GitHub, Jira, Figma, Notion integrated natively

Raycast vs Alfred

Raycast is one of the rare macOS apps that genuinely changes how you work—you quickly realize how much time you wasted switching apps and hunting for things before.