Changelog

We made more memory and performance improvements. AI Chat, Notes and Settings now each run in their own process, so a busy chat or a heavy note no longer slows down Root Search, and closing them frees up their memory. The launcher can use up to 35% less memory while idle. File Search uses up to 80% less memory at peak and up to 95% less while searching, searches are up to 30% faster, and background indexing uses much less CPU. More details are below.

💬 Send Context to AI

Two new commands let you show AI exactly what you're looking at. Send Element to AI lets you hover over anything on your screen, like a paragraph, an image or a button, and click to send it to AI Chat. To share a whole window instead, use Send Window to AI.

Tip: Assign a hotkey like ⌘ + ⇧ + 0 to Send Element to AI to grab context even faster.

✨ New

• Custom AI Providers: You can now give custom provider models Raycast's Web Search, Read Page, Search Images and Chart tools. Turn them on with a tools block in providers.yaml, and choose whether each one runs on Raycast, your company gateway, or a vendor you have a key for (Tavily, Exa, Firecrawl, Brave, Perplexity or Jina)
• Script Commands: Added controls to enable or disable background refresh for individual scripts

💎 Improvements

• AI: Made AI requests smaller, so local models reply to a simple message much faster than before and simple requests use fewer credits, without sacrificing response quality. Initial context is now 15% smaller for normal queries, and 40% smaller with automatic extension and skill discovery turned off
• AI: Improved Quick Fix performance
• AI Skills: Improved error details to help AI recover when a skill cannot be loaded
• AI Chat: Included archived chats in sidebar search results
• AI Chat: The extensions list in chat settings now shows every extension whose tools the chat uses, including Terminal, Finder and Automations
• AI Commands: AI Commands and automations no longer stop to show a question form. They now include any question in their reply instead
• AI Commands: When Replace Selection can't paste the response, the response is kept on your clipboard and in Clipboard History, and a warning tells you it was copied. This also applies to Translator
• Dictation: We now show a clearer status when wrapping up sessions and confirm with a success HUD when finishing a session
• Dictation: We improved post-processing to be faster and more reliable
• Clipboard History: Added an option to save Universal Clipboard items from your iPhone or iPad as soon as they arrive. Find it under Clipboard History settings
• Extensions: Added support for pasting files copied from Finder or File Explorer directly into file pickers
• File Search: Improved CPU and memory utilization. It now uses up to 80% less memory at peak and up to 95% less while searching. Searches are also up to 30% faster, depending on the search terms and number of documents
• File Search: Common development environment caches (e.g. .cargo/global-cache, .venv) are now excluded from indexing
• File Search: Added image dimensions to the details panel
• Memory & Performance: AI Chat, Notes and Settings now each run in their own process, separate from the launcher. A busy AI Chat or a heavy note no longer slows down Root Search, closed windows free their memory after a cooldown period so Raycast uses less while idle, and it's easier to see which part of Raycast is using memory or CPU
• Navigation: Added support for Page Up and Page Down in lists and grids
• Root Search: Improved ranking to favor complete words and exact title matches while preserving results learned from your previous searches
• Root Search: Prioritized applications when results are otherwise equally relevant
• Settings: AI Model provider sections in the Manage Models settings page now persist their collapsed state
• Settings: Opening a setting or command from elsewhere in Raycast now reliably scrolls to it and highlights it, including when you switch settings pages or select the same item again
• Startup: Raycast now waits for the keychain to become available instead of showing "Failed to start". If it waits more than 10 seconds, it tells you what it's waiting for

🐞 Fixes

• Action Panel: Fixed the action panel sometimes staying stuck open
• AI Chat: Fixed Quick Look when viewing attachments displaying an icon mid-transition
• AI Chat: Long chat titles and the model and reasoning effort labels truncate in the header
• AI Chat: Long model names in the / menu truncates, and hovering a model now shows a preview of its details
• AI Chat: Fixed chats created before 2.3.0 reopening with no agent and the default model. They now restore their original agent, model and reasoning effort
• AI Chat: Fixed Reasoning Effort being hidden for agents whose model is set to Inherit
• AI Chat: Fixed ⌘ + Enter and ⌥ + Enter not working while the tool-approval input is focused
• AI Chat: Fixed chats that AI had archived, pinned or deleted not updating in the sidebar until Raycast was restarted
• Auto Quit: Fixed apps like Slack being quit during calls on macOS 27
• Clipboard History: Fixed clipboard capture getting stuck when an app stopped responding while its copied content was being read
• Dictation: Fixed an issue where dictation would continue when you locked your machine or put it to sleep
• Dictionary: Allowed text selection in the detail view
• Extensions: Fixed manually running a command re-enabling background refresh after it had been disabled
• Extensions: Allowed text selection in list detail panels
• Feedback: Allowed Escape to close the window, respecting the user preference
• File Search: Brought back the Raycast v1 shortcut ⌘ + I for Show Info in Finder
• File Search: Content search using Spotlight should now be faster and return the intended results
• Focus: Fixed apps blocked by a Focus session reopening before you acknowledged that the session ended. They're now restored when you dismiss the completion prompt, even after a restart
• Hotkeys: Fixed text typed right after opening Raycast with a hotkey being swallowed for a few seconds and then lost
• Hotkey Recorder: Fixed flickering when deleting a hotkey with Backspace
• Launcher: Fixed the global hotkey reopening the last command instead of Root Search, and the window not closing or returning to root after a command was opened by hotkey during startup
• Notes: Improved performance when opening notes with deeply nested lists
• Notes: Made sure notes you create now keep working after future updates
• Notes: Fixed code blocks being dropped when AI created or edited a note
• Notes: Fixed note titles of AI created notes not updating after first line edit
• MCP: Fixed edits to running servers reverting to their previous configuration
• Memory Usage: Fixed various memory leaks that could contribute to RAM usage growing
• Open Camera: Fixed the camera preview closing when Raycast loses focus, for example while changing Video Effects in Control Center. It now stays on screen until you close it
• Quick AI: Fixed new chats using the default model from the model list instead of the Quick AI default model set in Settings
• Quicklinks: Preserved favicons when “Open With” is a browser
• Root Search: Localized application names should now correctly be searchable
• Root Search: Prevented Quicklink arguments retaining focus after execution
• Settings: Fixed the selection highlight being too faint for disabled commands
• Settings: Fixed a crash when changing the interface size while the main window was hidden
• Settings: Fixed command rows expanding and highlighting again after you'd already navigated to them
• Updater: Fixed an issue where querying the updater's Login Items status could freeze Raycast.

We made several memory and performance improvements. Raycast's host process now uses about 50% less memory. Each extension process uses about 30% less memory at startup and less CPU when launching, which helps menu bar commands, background refreshes, and AI tools. We also fixed a memory leak that grew the longer Raycast stayed open. More details are below, and further improvements are coming in the next updates.

🤖 Auto Model

We reworked our Auto model, and you can now choose how it picks a model for you. It comes with three different preferences: Lightweight, Balanced, and Flagship. Balanced is the default and uses about 70% fewer credits than Flagship to help you get more out of your credits. Lightweight responds in about 70% less time than Flagship and works well for quick questions. Flagship uses the most capable models for harder tasks and requires a Pro+ or Max subscription.

✨ New

• AI: Added Claude and ChatGPT subscription usage in /usage in AI Chat and in Settings
• AI: Added Show AI Credits/Claude/ChatGPT Usage commands
• Clipboard History: Added a Paste as PNG action for TIFF images
• Root Search: Added direct search results for more settings, including Accessibility settings and Keyboard Shortcuts
• UI: Added automatic color contrast adjustments throughout to ensure the UI remains legible

💎 Improvements

• AI Chat: Mermaid diagrams now load only when a chat first needs them, which reduces memory usage
• AI Permissions: Extended Always Allow approvals to cover similar commands
• AI Permissions: Reduced approval interruptions for routine Git and GitHub workflows, and improved Auto approval decisions
• Calendar: Command icons now display the current date across Raycast
• Calendar: Renamed the menu bar setting "Only show events with meetings" to "Only show events with a conference link", so it's clear why events without a video call link are hidden
• Clipboard History: Improved contrast of color swatch in color items
• Eject All Disks: Improved support for external drives and disk images, and added details about disks that could not be ejected
• Extensions: Clarified how uninstalling an extension affects its settings and data across synced devices
• Extensions: Improved performance when extensions refresh frequently in the background
• File Search: The file indexer uses about 60% less memory when it updates its index
• General: Improved reliability when your Mac wakes from sleep
• Memory Usage: Reduced idle memory use and improved memory cleanup after closing Raycast windows by releasing retained graphics memory
• Memory Usage: Reduced memory overhead from command icons
• Memory Usage: Reduced extension worker memory by ~30% in idle workers
• Memory Usage: Reduced native host memory by 50%
• Memory Usage: Improved process memory diagnostic
• Performance: Reduced extensions worker startup CPU usage
• Performance: Speed up command launches and prevent misinput while commands are loading
• Quick AI: Added an option to hide the Quick AI hint in Root Search
• Root Search: Recent searches keep their results, so typing them again responds faster
• Root Search: Added support for numpad for number hotkeys

🐞 Fixes

• Action Panel: Fixed loading spinner alignment in search menus
• AI: Fixed new chats sometimes using the incorrect model when using the “Last Used Model” default setting
• AI: Fixed an issue where Codex CLI wouldn’t be located properly after recent ChatGPT update
• AI Chat: Fixed an issue where pinning a chat removed it from its project
• AI Chat: Improved sidebar spacing and chat title fading
• AI Chat: Fixed "Open AI Settings" opening an empty Settings window instead of the AI settings
• Clipboard History: Fixed missing text previews and link detection for URLs received through Universal Clipboard
• Commands: Fixed losing keystrokes when typing immediately after launching a command with a hotkey
• Commands: Fixed invisible Raycast windows blocking clicks in other apps after commands that did not open a window
• Dictation: Fixed function-key shortcuts failing when Fn was held to press the function key (F1 , F2...)
• Emoji Picker: Ensured AI results are stable when pasting & keeping the window open
• Extensions: Fixed AppPicker width something blowing up
• Extensions: Fixed colored tags/icons being illegible in some cases
• File Search: Fixed a memory leak when reading text from images
• File Search: Fixed recent files disappearing while the file index updates
• Keyboard: Fixed a crash that could occur when changing keyboard input sources
• Keyboard Shortcuts: Fixed recorded shortcuts changing to modifier-only shortcuts when releasing the keys
• Keyboard Shortcuts: Fixed double-tap shortcuts losing their left or right modifier selection when recorded
• Keyboard Shortcuts: Fixed hotkeys failing to trigger when assigned to left or right modifier keys, or when Caps Lock was enabled
• Keyboard Shortcuts: Fixed modifier hotkeys unexpectedly stopping during a session
• Keyboard Shortcuts: Fixed double-tap shortcuts triggering accidentally after clicks such as ⌘ + Click
• Keyboard Shortcuts: Fixed recording and triggering navigation-key shortcuts, including Home, End, Page Up, and Page Down, without an unwanted Fn modifier
• Quicklinks: Fixed issues where Quicklink icons would not reliably update or display
• Quicklinks: Fixed a regression preventing from saving a Quicklink
• Quicklinks: Fixed flashing/jumping issues in search view when navigating entries
• Root Search: Fixed Tab and alias navigation to focus the first empty command argument
• Root Search: Fixed running a command with missing required arguments in compact mode to expand the window and focus the missing argument
• Script Commands: Fixed fallback commands not receiving the search query as their first argument
• UI: Ensured consistent window-blurred icon opacity between single/grouped buttons
• Notes: Fixed Copy Content from Search losing formatting when pasted into rich text editors
• Notes: Fixed line breaks being lost when pasting text
• Notes: Fixed pasted Markdown being formatted inside code blocks instead of remaining plain text
• Notes: Fixed newly inserted dividers reverting to Markdown when pressing Backspace. The first press now selects the divider, and the second deletes it

Extensions can now provide their own AI models to Raycast. Just install a compatible extension from the Store, complete its setup, and choose its models in AI Chat. It’s an easy way to bring even more models into your everyday workflow.

We updated a few extensions: Ollama AI, AI by Vercel, Cerebras, Groq, LM Studio, etc.. Developers, check out the API changelog for more information.

💎 Improvements

• AI Chat: Rename a chat by double-clicking its title in the top bar. Press Enter to save or Esc to cancel, and the window can still be dragged by the title
• AI Chat: Dictation with Ctrl + M in the AI Chat and Quick AI composers now uses the same processed transcript as the Dictate command. The text shows up once you stop recording instead of streaming into the editor while you speak
• Applications: Added support for finding apps by alternate names and Spotlight keywords, such as “Codex” for ChatGPT and “Preferences” for System Settings
• File Search: Added a setting to entirely disable indexing of network/removable/virtual volumes
• File Search: Indexing now respects the .metadata_never_index marker file convention from Spotlight
• Diagnostics: Added a warning in Settings → About when another app’s Secure Input may interfere with Snippet Expansion or Hyper Key, with guidance on resolving it
• Script Commands: Added line wrapping to full output so long lines are easier to read

🐞 Fixes

• AI: Fixed reasoning showing below the answer in chats migrated from Raycast v1
• AI: Fixed the tool approval bar not responding in later turns of the same response when using Ollama or OpenAI-compatible custom providers
• AI: Fixed failing requests retrying in the background indefinitely during provider outages. Raycast now stops after a few attempts and shows an error with options to change the model, resume, or stop.
• AI Commands: Disabled automatic tool discovery and skill loading
• AI Profile: Fixed clearing and saving an empty profile
• Calculator: Fixed currency conversions using missing or outdated rates during refreshes
• Clipboard History: Fixed a hang in Adobe Illustrator caused by image processing when reading the pasteboard
• Crash: Improved recovery when the launcher displays a blank window due to a GPU process hang
• File Search: Classify NFS, VirtualBox and other mounted volumes correctly as non-local volumes
• Hotkeys: Fixed some shortcuts failing to record when key presses arrive after the keys have been released
• Quick AI: Fixed ⌘ + Enter (Copy Response) and ⌥ + Enter (Paste Formatted Response) not working right after a response in some cases
• Open With…: Fixed the menu initially selecting an unrelated app before recommended apps finished loading
• Store: Fixed Install Extension Anyway failing for extensions marked as unsupported on your platform

macOS Golden Gate is out, bringing many user interface changes. While there are no major new features, we've focused on implementing some of these design tweaks in Raycast, such as new sidebars / toolbars as well as Liquid Glass updates.

✨ New

• UI: Updated all user interfaces to support macOS Golden Gate

💎 Improvements

• AI Chat: Copying or pasting a response now takes only the final answer, leaving out the working narration that came before it
• Calendar: Added support for opening events in BusyCal installed through Setapp
• Emoji & Symbols: Improved text symbol rendering performance when reopening the window
• Performance: Improved responsiveness when loading images, icons, and contact thumbnails
• Script Commands: Scripts now run from their own folder by default, with support for relative and home-directory paths
• Script Commands: Script commands now run with your regional locale, so dates, numbers and currency in their output match your system settings
• Startup: Added clearer instructions for restarting Raycast after cancelling Keychain access
• Store: Added update details showing which extensions were updated, skipped, removed, or failed, with access to version history

🐞 Fixes

• AI: Fixed messages and corresponding reasoning sometimes appearing in the wrong order
• AI Chat: Fixed system beeps when switching chats with Control-Command-Up and Control-Command-Down
• AI Chat: Fixed focus not returning to the previous app after dismissing an Always on Top window
• AI Chat: Fixed copying a generated chart or image from a response. Copy and paste now pick the generated image when a response has one, in both AI Chat and Quick AI.
• AI Commands: Fixed AI terminal commands and MCP servers running under the wrong locale, which made bash and perl print a setlocale warning into the output the model reads
• Clipboard History: Fixed Save as File and Save as Snippet being unavailable for large text entries
• Clipboard History: Restored image actions for images copied from apps such as Figma
• Clipboard History: Fixed background text recognition preventing external drives from being ejected
• Commands: Fixed commands failing to launch while a confirmation dialog was closing
• Crash: Fixed file watcher SIGTRAP crash caused by over-releasing the watcher when it fails to start due to resource exhaustion
• Dictionary: Fixed some words, such as “gills”, failing to display their formatted dictionary definition
• Dynamic Placeholders: Fixed clipboard placeholders omitting large text entries or preventing expansion when saved clipboard text was unavailable
• Emoji & Symbols: Fixed searches containing double quotes failing to return results
• Extensions: Fixed links opening in the default browser instead of their associated app, including Safari web apps
• Migration: Fixed importing settings from Raycast Classic incorrectly disabling moved apps or another installed copy
• Notes: Fixed notes opening behind AI Chat when Always on Top was enabled
• Notes: Fixed moving a pinned note to the top sometimes hiding the note from the pinned section
• Raycast Focus: Fixed sessions started through AI or deeplinks ignoring configured preferences, including snooze and app restoration
• Raycast Focus: Fixed blocked apps remaining open when switching away from the blocking overlay, and corrected overlay placement with multiple displays
• Raycast Focus: Restored the glow and confirmation message when starting a session through a deeplink
• Raycast Focus & Calendar: Fixed duration inputs such as “until 15:00” and “until 3pm” not being recognized
• Script Commands: Fixed quickly finishing scripts getting stuck on “Running” and missing error messages when scripts failed to start
• Window Management: Fixed the Raycast window position shifting after bounce animations

We rebuilt the core of Raycast AI. You can now give AI Chat a task and it works out a plan, uses your extensions, writes and runs code, checks the results, and keeps going until it's finished. When something fails, it tries a different approach. And when it needs a decision from you, it stops, asks you, and then continues where it left off.

Tasks like these cost more to run than a single question, which is why this release also changes how we charge for AI. Our plans move from rate-limited to usage-based, all subscription prices stay the same, and there's a new Max plan for heavier usage. Read the full reasoning on our blog.

But there is more…

🔁 Bring Your Own Subscriptions

You can now connect your Claude or ChatGPT account to any paid Raycast plan and use those models in AI Chat, Quick AI, and AI Commands. This lets you run the heaviest tasks without worrying about additional costs. We plan to add other providers in the future, turning AI Chat into your single interface to get the most out of your subscriptions. You can enable models from your subscriptions in Settings → AI → Models & Providers.

📁 Projects

Projects keep conversations about the same topic together. They have their own memory, so you don't have to explain yourself every time you start a new chat, and the agent builds on decisions you've already made. You can also give a project a working directory. Point it at an Obsidian vault, a folder of invoices, or any other folder on your Mac or PC, and the agent knows where to work with your files.

🤖 Automations

Automations run prompts on a schedule, so you don't have to start the same task yourself every time. The agent works in the background and adds the result to a chat. Our team uses them to triage their email inboxes every morning, babysit open pull requests every hour, and update Raycast’s memory from their meeting notes every evening.

✨ New

• AI: Added support for rendering Mermaid diagrams
• AI: Added Auto-review rules for greater control over how Auto mode behaves
• AI: Press ⌘ + F to find text in chat
• AI: Deleted chats now land in Recently Deleted, where you can restore them before they're permanently removed after a retention window of 60 days

💎 Improvements

• AI: Raycast now prevents your computer from sleeping while AI is running
• AI: Auto mode now handles routine local work with fewer unnecessary interruptions
• AI: Tool approval prompts now clearly explain the requested action and its impact, making them easier to review before continuing
• AI: Tool confirmations now default to Auto, so sessions no longer ask for permission on every tool call if you never touched the setting
• AI: Searching chats will now include content hits
• AI: Search the / model menu and @ mention menu by provider, so typing /ollama or /openai finds the matching models
• AI: Model picker now show your recently used models
• AI: @ mention menu will now order options based on frecency
• Clipboard History: Add missing Share option to Clipboard History entries
• Clipboard History: Added AI tools to search entries by text, title, or text found in images, and to filter by type
• Clipboard History: Added AI tools to open a specific entry and rewrite its contents, with a confirmation step before anything is replaced
• Extensions: Improved performance when displaying large extension views
• File Search: Directories automatically excluded from indexing due to significant churn can now be permanently re-included via File Search Settings
• File Search: Exact term matches should now rank higher in results
• MCP: Added Reset Sign In so you can retry an incomplete sign-in without reinstalling the server
• Root Search: Added support for Finder aliases to applications, including aliases to apps outside your search scopes
• Root Search: Applications on external drives now appear as soon as the drive is mounted and are removed when it's ejected, instead of only after restarting Raycast
• Root Search: Internal helper apps no longer appear temporarily after an application is installed, including helpers bundled inside linked applications
• Root Search: Add missing Share option for files in root search
• Script Commands: Added support for using scripts with a text argument as fallback commands
• UI: Ensured macOS text replacements work across all editing surfaces

🐞 Fixes

• AI Chat: Fixed tool calls silently losing their arguments when streamed from a custom provider in certain cases
• AI Chat: Fixed Always on Top falling out of sync with the saved preference after reopening the window
• AI Local Models: Ollama connections no longer go through the system proxy, fixing repeated connection failures and a probe loop for people running a proxy
• Calculator History: Fixed an issue where some calculations would appear to truncate too eagerly in the list view
• Calculator: Fixed missing results for “now”, “time”, “today”, “tomorrow”, and “yesterday”
• Calculator: Fixed unnecessary results appearing when entering plain numbers
• Clipboard History: Fixed clipboard capture silently stopping mid-session, which required restarting Raycast to start recording copies again
• Define Word: Fixed a crash while typing in Define Word, most often reproducible with non-English input
• Extensions: Fixed an issue with form label/control alignment
• Extensions: Updated outdated AI models used by extensions and fixed creativity settings being ignored
• Extensions: Fixed getting stuck on the success screen after forking an extension
• Hotkeys: Fixed an application hotkey raising only the last-focused window instead of all of the app's windows when a Raycast window was active
• Importer: Fixed older Hyper Key preferences blocking the migration of general settings and the launcher hotkey
• MCP: Fixed sign-in failures with some servers, including Tripsy
• Raycast Focus: Fixed the Ask Raycast Focus command not resolving from Root Search
• Root Search: Fixed an issue where the action panel could sometimes reopen when navigating back to Root Search
• Screenshots: Fixed recognizing screenshots and screen recordings with localized filenames
• Store: Fixed installing extensions after choosing to ignore platform restrictions, and updating those extensions afterward
• Store: Fixed cut-off extension details on the installation screen

Bring Your Own Model brings three familiar ways to use your preferred AI models back to Raycast v2. Connect any OpenAI-compatible endpoint with Custom Providers, run models through Ollama with Local Models, or add your OpenRouter API key to choose from its catalog. Once configured, your models are available across Raycast AI alongside Raycast’s built-in options.

In v2, Custom Providers, Local Models, and Bring Your Own Key require a Raycast Pro subscription. We know this is a meaningful change compared to v1 and want to be upfront about it. You can read more about our thinking and where we’re heading on the BYOAI article in the Manual.

✨ New

• AI: Added support OpenAI-compatible custom providers, local models via Ollama, and OpenRouter API keys, using their models across Raycast AI
• Quick AI: Added a Paste Formatted Response action
• Window Management: Added Resize Window and Move Window commands that take exact pixel dimensions and coordinates as arguments
• Window Management: Added Create Layout From Current Windows command allowing for quick capturing custom layouts from the windows currently on screen. The layout editor can also add any visible window, and a layout can place several windows of the same app
• Window Management: Apps launched by a custom layout can now be given command-line arguments

💎 Improvements

• AI: Added basic support for right-to-left text
• AI Settings: Enabled Ask Questions and Collapse Long Messages by default and removed their settings
• Root Search: Apps sharing a name are now disambiguated in search and app pickers
• File Search: Deep directories no longer outrank shallower or more recent files

🐞 Fixes

• Core: Fixed slow startup after system restart
• Dictation: Fixed an issue where dictated text could be submitted before the target app had finished receiving it, cutting off part of the transcription
• Extensions: Fixed Grid pagination, tooltips on List and Grid item icons and accessories, Form item info text, Alert icons, and checkbox preference grouping in Settings
• File Search: Fixed a race condition that could cause the index to remain incomplete
• File Search: Recent files now populate during indexing
• Keyboard: Fixed hotkeys for Dvorak - QWERTY ⌘ keyboard layout
• Main Window: Fixed Siri AI floating interface appearing in the main window on macOS 27
• Mission Control: Fixed empty Raycast windows accumulating in Mission Control on macOS 27
• Quick AI: Fixed launches from Root Search not applying the current Quick AI defaults in some situations
• Root Search: Recent files should now be consistent with File Search

Your favorite emojis are now just a : away. Type : followed by an emoji name to open the Inline Emoji Picker and insert emojis without breaking your flow.

Inline Emoji Picker works across text fields throughout Raycast, including AI Chat, Notes, Snippets, Quicklinks, and AI Commands. Suggestions follow your preferred emoji skin tone.

✨ New

• Emoji: Added Inline Emoji Picker. Type : followed by a name in any text field to search and insert emojis.

💎 Improvements

• Quick AI: Added support for dropping files from Finder directly into Quick AI to attach them, including while revealing the window with the global hotkey mid-drag
• Root Search: Improved icon rendering of Quicklink favourites in compact mode
• Root Search: Tab now performs primary action if AI or Tab to Quick AI is disabled

🐞 Fixes

• AI Chat: Fixed a text scaling issue in “Ask Question” tool
• AI Chat: Fixed run errors rendering above tool calls in some situations
• AI Chat: Fixed failed image generations and remote tools appearing as completed
• Clipboard History: Fixed an issue where selecting all content would also select list items
• Clipboard History: Ensured pasting non-full entries can still correctly update history (ie. paste as plain text)
• Emoji Picker: Fixed emoji jitter when moving selection
• Emoji Picker: Fixed an issue where saving keywords on an AI suggested emoji would fail
• Extensions: Fixed an issue where pressing Escape from an extension subview would mistakenly discard Raycast
• File Search: Fixed an issue preventing file index compaction causing elevated disk space utilization
• File Search: Fixed an issue where directories matching a term and containing many children would be hidden from results by its contents
• File Search: Fixed an issue causing online-only files in indexed cloud folders (iCloud, Google Drive, etc) to be hydrated accidentally
• My Schedule: Fixed an alignment issue when the time of event was formatted with a 12h clock
• Notes: Fixed inline code background in completed todo items
• Notes: Fixed empty list items being dropped when pasting markdown
• Notes: Fixed checklist structure being lost when copying and pasting
• Root Search: Fixed a regression that brought back tab to browse files
• Settings: Fixed script command icons being cropped
• UI: Fixed visual artefact on short popovers when using largest interface size

Raycast 2.0 is out of Beta! 🎉

Thank you so much for being a part of it! We would not be at this point without all of your feedback and support.

With this release, Raycast v2 replaces v1. You will be guided through the update in Raycast, and your existing v2 beta data will remain unchanged. If you have not imported your v1 data yet, you will have the option to do so during the update. Some permissions may need to be authorized again after the migration.

During the beta, Dictation and AI Chat were available for free while we tested and improved the experience. With this release, these features will now be part of Raycast Pro. To help with the transition, signing in gives you a 7-day free trial of Pro. No credit card is required.

For more information on the update process, see our FAQ.

✨ New

• AI: Added a Clear Chat action, which resets a chat's messages while keeping its model, agent, and other configuration
• AI: Added support for mentioning AI extensions when replying to a question asked with the Ask User Question tool
• AI: Ask User Question tool can be collapsed to make browsing conversation easier while questions are unanswered
• MCP: Added loopback OAuth redirects so MCP providers that reject custom URL schemes, such as Atlassian, can now be connected

💎 Improvements

• AI: Error messages are clearer, more specific, and show a potential action to recover, like retry, change model, etc.
• AI: In the composer. backspace now only deletes text, and cmd+backspace is used to remove attachments, then the queued message, then the agent, then the folder
• AI: Code blocks now render tabs at four-space width
• AI: Speed up Screen Awareness screenshot captures
• AI: Improved OCR for PDFs when retrieving relevant context for AI conversations
• AI Commands: Updated the default AI Commands model to GPT-5.6 Luna
• Dictation: Added a word count to the details of each entry in dictation history
• UI: Improved scrolling performance across the app
• Window Management: Center hotkey now truly centers a window when “Respect Stage Manager” setting is enabled and there is enough space on the desktop for the centered window not to occlude the stage manager strip

🐞 Fixes

• AI: Fixed chats sometimes staying stuck in a working state after an agent or tool run had already finished, including after reopening the app
• AI: Fixed tool errors from third-party extensions being shown as raw JSON
• AI: Fixed an attachment error being shown for messages that had no attachment
• AI: Fixed a single failed image generation ending the whole run
• AI: Fixed long-running requests timing out too early by separating the wait for the first response from the idle timeout during streaming
• AI: Fixed a crash on machines where synced models had not been fully restored
• AI: Fixed importing settings and data deleting attachments from existing chats
• AI: Fixed compaction not reserving context when compacting in-between tool calls
• AI Chat: Fixed the pinned section in the sidebar reopening on every launch
• AI Skills: Fixed skill folders Raycast cannot read causing repeated background errors, and marked them with a "No Access" badge in Skills settings
• Calculator: Fixed calculator results not being saved to history when the main window was hidden or popped to root
• Notes: Fixed text being turned into links incorrectly
• Notes: Fixed bug in note deeplinks which opened last viewed note instead of linked note
• Root Search: Fixed Tab both opening a file and starting Quick AI

The best chats start with the right context. Screen Awareness brings context from your focused app or window into AI Chat or Quick AI, so you don’t have to copy text, attach screenshots, or explain what you’re looking at.

Use the Send Focused Window to AI command, choose Screen Awareness from the @ menu, or simply ask “summarise this” or “reply to this”.

The first time you use the command, a short onboarding guide helps you set a hotkey. Our team likes to double-tap the right Command key.

✨ New

• AI: Send Focused Window to AI command includes richer app and window context
• AI: New Ask Screen Awareness AI Extension to quickly give context to Raycast
• AI: Added compaction and context management support
• Quick AI: “Send Message” AI setting is now respected by Quick AI as well which allows submitting queries on Command Return
• Dictation: Added a way to import your vocabulary and hotkeys from other apps
• Dictation: Added a new “Add Word to Vocabulary” command to add a selected word or entered argument into your vocabulary
• Feedback: New Ask Feedback AI Extension to contact the Raycast team
• Hotkeys: Added support for chords using a modifier held on both sides of the keyboard (e.g. left ⌘ + right ⌘), including recording and display in the hotkey recorder

💎 Improvements

• Core: Text fields now expand your macOS Text Replacements
• Emoji Picker: Added the missing "Copy with Skin Tone…" action
• File Search: File detail previews now show document thumbnails (PDFs, Keynote, Pages, and others)
• File Search: Substantially reduced CPU from filesystem indexing during heavy file activity
• Hotkeys: The recorder now detects and warns about combinations that can't coexist with an existing hotkey, instead of flagging only identical ones (e.g. single-tap ⌘ vs double-tap ⌘⌘)

🐞 Fixes

• AI: Fixed answering a tool permission prompt doing nothing after quitting and reopening Raycast
• AI: Fixed the app crashing when a malformed question confirmation was received
• AI Chat: Fixed deleting a chat from the sidebar always asking for confirmation, even after choosing to not be asked again
• AI Chat: Fixed chats that stayed stuck looking busy after the agent had finished
• AI Chat: Fixed the window turning off Always on Top when opened from a background notification or by restoring a Window Management layout
• Clipboard History: Fixed macOS app-data permission prompts appearing when rendering file previews and icons
• Dictation: Fixed the dictation pill not following to the active Space
• Focus: Fixed the "no snooze" setting not being honored
• Focus: Fixed the duration picker not highlighting the right option when two durations were equal
• Focus: Fixed website blocking incorrectly matching text typed into Firefox's address bar
• Hyper Key: Fixed remapping and Caps Lock reset failing when multiple keyboards are connected, and fixed two Control keys being reported while the Hyper Key is held
• Stability: Fixed a machine-wide IOKit power-assertion handle leak that could eventually stop other apps from launching

Some AI Chat requests take a little longer, and you shouldn’t have to keep checking whether they’re done.

Background notifications let you know when AI Chat has finished responding or needs your input while you’re working elsewhere. Keep using another app or chat, then jump back in from the notification when you’re ready. You can turn them on or off anytime in AI settings.

✨ New

• AI: Generated images can be dragged and dropped into other apps
• AI: New speed and intelligence stat bars make it easy to differentiate models
• AI Chat: Chats in the sidebar can be dragged and dropped between sections like Recent, Archive, individual folders and Pinned
• Quick Fix: Added an experimental option to preserve text formatting in supported apps like Slack and Notion. Enable it in the command’s settings
• Dictation: A new activity graph to see when you’re using dictation the most

💎 Improvements

• AI: Changed links in markdown to blue color to make them more visible
• AI Chat: Simplified and cleaned up the layout of the composer, confirmation prompts and questions asked back to the user
• AI Chat: Added right-click actions for links and files, making it easier to open, copy and share them
• AI Chat: Right-click anywhere in the sidebar to quickly create a new folder
• Cloud Sync: Added support for networks that use TLS-inspecting proxies (common in corporate setups) — Raycast now trusts the system certificate store and user-installed certificates, and shows a clearer status when a network blocks the secure connection
• Cloud Sync: The Synced Content view now shows real progress while duplicate items are being cleaned up
• Cloud Sync: Syncing a large backlog now runs in small, paced batches and pauses itself when it would slow down what you're doing, so the app stays responsive during big catch-ups
• Dictation: The “Copy Last Transcription” command is now “Get Last Transcription” and supports pasting to the active app too
• Dictation: Added Cloud Sync support for Transcription Styles
• Hotkeys: Added support for multi-modifier hotkeys (e.g. ⌥⌘)
• Hotkeys: Added support for single-tap modifier hotkeys (e.g. Right ⌘, Right ⇧)
• Performance: Improved latency for opening Clipboard History and Search Emoji & Symbols via hotkey
• Root Search: Improved application icons refresh when the source bundle icon updates
• Root Search: Added indexing for Parallels (Windows) applications when App Sharing is enabled in Parallels

🐞 Fixes

• AI: Fixed dictation getting re-triggered in some cases after running the Ask User Question tool
• AI: Branching a chat now duplicates its attachments, so the new branch keeps its files
• AI: Fixed bug in Quick AI where editing a message wasn’t regenerating the response
• AI Chat: Fixed chat deeplinks to open the linked conversation
• Cloud Sync: Fixed very long AI chats losing part of their history when syncing across devices
• Cloud Sync: Fixed disabling Cloud Sync and installing updates not working while the database was busy
• Cloud Sync: Fixed changes made right before a restart occasionally not being synced
• Notes: Fixed the emoji picker closing when text reflows
• Translator: Result text area can now be selected