Changelog

With this release, we’re bringing you better support for international keyboards, as well as a ton of improvements to the hotkey recorder that makes all the features more usable and discoverable.

In practice, it means that when recording a hotkey the default behavior is now physical-key based. We then display the correct printed character according to the active keyboard layout. Once the hotkey is recorded, you have the opportunity to tweak it further, for example by specifying a modifier side, or switching to key-equivalent.

Other improvements include:

• Subtle suggestions of hotkey types to record
• Ability to make more tweaks to an an existing hotkey at any point just by reopening the recorder or simply overwriting it with a brand new one

✨ New

• Added Toggle System Appearance command
• UX: Raycast now respects your system accent color

💎 Improvements

• AI Commands: Improved summarize webpage command giving responses that were too short
• AI Settings: Split AI Settings into multiple sub-views for better organization
• Core: Improved overall stability with hardening against third-party hooks
• General: We now better handle international keyboard layouts, both in built-in shortcuts in the Action Panel which are now key-equivalent, as well as for global hotkeys were we now correctly represent the printed character based on the currently active layout
• General: Faster app startup and a more reliable launch-at-login experience
• Hotkey Recorder: We have improved the UX of the hotkey recorder, so it’s clearer, less error-prone, and also enabled better discovery of its new features (like the types of hotkeys, specifying modifier side or switching to key-equivalent)
• Quick AI: Allow scrolling with page up and page down keys
• Settings: When on a sub-view of a particular setting, a click on the setting in the sidebar navigates back to the parent setting view
• Themes: Theme Studio Save button now uses a native floppy-disk icon.
• Quicklinks: Added Open With… and Show in Explorer actions
• Snippets: You can now search for snippets by keyword

🐞 Fixes

• Calculator: Fixed an issue where some operators were misaligned
• Core: Fixed an issue where the Raycast window could unexpectedly reappear after recovering from a crash
• Clipboard History & Emoji Picker: Improved pasting reliability into certain apps
• Extensions: Restored ability to delete tokens by clicking × in tag picker
• Hotkeys: Fixed parsing for some unmappable character keys
• Notes: Fixed text obstructed by header when moving the keyboard cursor to the top
• Notes: Fixed ordered list’s numbers breaking out
• Quick AI: Fixed sticky code block button being positioned incorrectly
• Clipboard History: Fixed missing image thumbnails
• Import: Fixed handling of rayconfig files opened from the File Explorer
• Export: Fixed a crash when setting the scheduled export period to 1 month

Make Raycast your own with gorgeous themes. Opt for a pre-made one or design your own with the brand-new Theme Studio and share it with the community.

Select your favorite light/dark theme combo in settings with our updated settings in General › Appearance, or quickly change theme using the new Switch Theme command.

This feature is part of our paid offering but during the Beta period, we’re excited to offer you full access for free.

✨ New

• Theme Studio: Preview, create and edit themes to make Raycast your own using our new Show Theme Studio command
• Theme Studio: Swiftly change your current theme using our new Switch Theme command
• Settings: Updated theme settings under General › Appearance
• Drafts: Form drafts are now available so you should no longer lose state when using commands such as Create Quicklink etc

💎 Improvements

• AI: Raycast is now able to handle large amounts of AI data better in various places like Quick AI and AI Settings
• AI: Restructured AI Settings by moving sections into sub-pages
• Clipboard History: ”Save as File” action now supports images

🐞 Fixes

• Calculator: fix first result not displaying correct time
• Calculator: fix crash when evaluating time in places with certain timezone format
• Quick AI: Fixed first historical chat not being scrolled to bottom
• Root Search: Fixed an issue where nothing was selected after restart
• Settings: Fixed an issue where pressing Enter wouldn’t create new line in text areas inside dialogs
• Snippets: Removed faulty expand-within-words toggle that caused an inconsistent keyword auto-expansion issue.
• Import: Fixed native import for hotkeys
• Quicklinks: Shared Quicklink hotkeys and aliases should no longer be reset when the app starts
• Themes: Fixed an issue where the client would occasionally use a dark theme with light appearance

Introducing Hyperkey: it turns a single key into a powerful shortcut modifier, so you can trigger unique shortcuts easily. Hyperkey lets you remap a key like Caps Lock to act as Ctrl+Alt+Win pressed all at once. You can also include Shift in the combo for even more options. Choose your trigger key from Caps Lock, any modifier key, or F1-F12 in Settings → "Keyboard & Shortcuts" → "Hyper Key" and then record a hotkey with it. Hyperkey shortcuts appear in the UI with the ✦ symbol, making them easy to spot and remember.

✨ New

• AI: We switched to GPT-5.4 Mini as the free model during the Raycast Beta
• Hyperkey: Hyperkey support is now available on Windows
• Applications: Added a recursive search option for portable apps

💎 Improvements

• General: "Send Feedback" tray command now opens the feedback window directly
• General: Less aggressive game mode detection heuristics to reduce false positives
• General: Improved "paste and keep window open" reliability

🐞 Fixes

• General: Fixed pasting to non-root windows in apps like Global Mapper
• General: Fixed a potential crash on startup related to WebView2 initialization
• General: Fixed a crash during backend initialization when system info is unavailable
• File Search: Network and removable drive entries should no longer be lost on startup
• File Search: Exclusion patterns in Settings and ignore files should now handle case-sensitivity correctly
• Snippets: Fixed an issue causing incorrect snippet matches after changing focus to another application.
• Snippets: Fixed long snippets being pasted with garbled or missing characters due to incorrect UTF-8 byte truncation.

💎 Improvements

• Quick AI: Improved loading speed for large amounts of chats and chats with lots of messages
• Quick AI: Reduced memory consumption when having lots of AI chats
• Settings: Added “Escape Key Closes Window” in Keyboard settings. This allows you to close Settings or Notes windows using the Escape key.

🐞 Fixes

• Applications: Fix an issue where apps started from Raycast would run with the wrong %PATH% environment variable
• Core: Fix a rare issue where hotkeys/snippets wouldn’t be registered
• Core: Fix a rare issue were Raycast crashes on startup
• Extensions: Fixed an issue for opening applications from extensions
• Quick AI: Fixed Quick AI command not being available
• Quick Look: Close the Quick Look window with the CTRL+Y shortcut
• Quick Look: Fix audio still playing after closing the Quick Look window
• Extensions: Fixes a startup crash for misconfigured extensions

Introducing Virtual Desktop commands a full suite of commands that turns your desktop into a modern window management experience. Assign Open Desktop 1–10 to shortcuts like Alt+1 through Alt+0 to instantly switch desktops, and bind Move to Desktop 1–10 to Alt+Shift+1 through Alt+Shift+0 to quickly move windows where you need them. Toggle on Auto Close Empty Desktops in the settings and when a desktop becomes empty, it closes automatically to keep your workspace tidy. Note: This feature is available only on Windows 11, version 24H2 or later. Coming soon to 23H2.

✨ New

• Window Management: Use Open Desktop and Open Desktop 1–10 to quickly open and switch to virtual desktops
• Window Management: Use Move to Desktop and Move to Desktop 1–10 to send the focused window to a specific desktop
• Window Management: Use Rename Desktop to give desktops clear, memorable names
• Window Management: Use Close Desktop to close desktops when you no longer need them
• Window Management: Use Switch Desktops to bring up an interactive list of all available virtual desktops
• Raycast for Teams: Added support for Organization Management in Settings and through the relevant commands; copy, create and manage organisations
• Raycast for Teams: Shared Snippets and shared Quicklinks are now syncing across devices
• Raycast for Teams: Added the create and manage Webhook commands

💎 Improvements

• Change-log: You can now disable change-log notifications in Settings > Raycast > Changelog
• Confetti: You can now disable holiday confetti in Settings > Raycast > Confetti
• General: Toast is now automatically expandable (toast action panel) when overflowing
• Quicklinks: Added Edit, Duplicate, Disable, Delete actions in settings
• Quicklinks: Improved filtering UX
• Root Search: Added support for What’s New item in compact mode
• Settings: Cleaned-up Appearance / Theming settings
• Snippets: Improved filtering UX
• System: Updated the default system notification sound to a less intrusive tone

🐞 Fixes

• Clipboard history: Extracted via OCR text from images isn’t automatically pasted along with the image
• Importer: Avoid mapping hotkey characters to the number pad
• Importer: Fixed Clipboard History import for users with >20k records
• Importer: Fixed timeouts during long imports
• Quicklinks: Fixed icons for links using custom app protocols
• Settings: Fixed certificate file picker busting out UI in Advanced Settings
• System: Fixed an issue that caused tooltips to appear in incorrect locations.
• System: Fixed an issue where non-resizable Raycast windows could be incorrectly maximized
• Window Management: Fixed Custom Command form layout issues

Keep your workspace tidy with custom window management commands to resize and position your windows.

Run Create Command from the root search or go to Settings → Window Management → Create Command.

✨ New

• Translator: Create custom commands with predefined language pairs, so you can quickly translate between your most-used languages without selecting them each time.
• Translator: "Use Selected Text as Source" setting. When enabled, triggering the translator via hotkey automatically fills the source text with your current selection.

💎 Improvements

• Clipboard History: You can now drag and drop items (files, images, text) from Clipboard History to other apps.

🐞 Fixes

• System: Fixed startup crash on older Windows versions.

Raycast on Windows now supports Quick Look!

It lets you preview files instantly without leaving Raycast or opening them in another app.

Quick Look gives you a fast, inline preview of images, PDFs, videos, audio, text files, and even Office documents - right from File Search. Press Ctrl+Y on any file to open a floating preview window, and press it again to dismiss. As you navigate through your search results, the preview updates automatically to follow your selection.

✨ New

• Search Files: You can now use “Quick look” action in Search Files.

💎 Improvements

• Applications: Duplicates are now disambiguated by their path in root search.
• Translate: Choose the default action via settings

🐞 Fixes

• AI: Fixed Quick AI, AI Commands and AI Settings not being available in the UI
• Hotkeys: Fix an issue where some modifiers would appear stuck after using certain actions
• Script Commands: Cleanup hotkeys and settings for deleted script commands

Quickly translate text between different languages with just a few keystrokes. Our Translator is designed to be fast and flexible, allowing you to translate anything from a single word to longer passages without opening another app or website.

Enter a phrase, switch between languages and listen to translations out loud.

This feature is part of our paid offering but during the Windows Beta period, we’re excited to offer you full access for free.

✨ New

• Translator: Quickly translate text or speech with just a few keystrokes
• Translator Settings: Set up default source and target languages in translate settings so you always get translations in your preferred language pair
• Calculator: Perform fast translations directly in root search using the in suffix
• System: “Toggle HDR“ command to control HDR directly from Raycast

💎 Improvements

• General: Improved legibility of alias / keyword inputs throughout the app
• Settings: Added ability to delete a set hotkey from the recorder itself by pressing Backspace
• System: "Environment variables" command is now split into separate "User environment variables" and "System environment variables" entries for more precise access
• Translator: Added voice pack installation prompt when needed (download may take a few minutes)

🐞 Fixes

• Snippets: Fixed an issue where pasting a rich text snippet did not include the formatted content
• Store: Fixed an issue with the scrolling gallery in details view
• System: Fixed an issue where opening Microsoft Office applications could fail

Calculator History has arrived 🎉

Every calculation and conversion you perform in Raycast is now saved and searchable. Pin your favorites and keep track of time-zones, currencies, or calculations — fast. History entries are kept for 3 months (pinned entries are kept forever) and update in real-time, so currency and time conversions always show their latest values.

✨ New

• Calculator History: Browse, search, and pin your past calculations and conversions. Open it with the new "Calculator History" command or directly from a calculator result
• REM to PX Conversion: Type any REM or PX value into the calculator and see its conversion. Set your base REM value in the calculator settings
• Scheduled Export: You can now backup your Raycast settings and data on a schedule, either daily, weekly or monthly. Go to Settings → Advanced and scroll down to the Export section

💎 Improvements

• Calculator: Added two new actions: "Swap Units" and "Copy Unformatted Answer"
• Calculator: The "Refresh Currencies" action now only appears for relevant currency conversions
• Changelog: Improved layout, added pagination and better search
• Compact Mode: Made is possible to expand when calling an action panel
• Extensions: Improved popover alignment
• Extensions: Improved list item fitting (title/subtitle/accessories)
• Extensions: Improved readability of grid item hover/selection states
• System: Added support for Modern Standby
• System: Improved app launch times, up to 10× faster on lower-end systems.
• Window management: Fix Next/Previous Desktop/Display commands

🐞 Fixes

• Applications: Fixed “Quit app” command for Electron apps like Discord
• General: Fixed toasts sometimes becoming stale
• Settings: Application settings are not lost during a reinstall once again
• System: Fixed an issue where “Sleep” command did not work on some systems with modern standby support
• Snippets: Fixed an issue where “Paste” action in Search Snippets would not expan snippet
• Navigation: Fixed an issue where switching windows would not focus them
• Windows Management: Fixed crash when attempting to use the window management command on Windows versions lower than 24H2

Search Screenshots lets you find any screenshot or screen recording instantly. You can even search them by the text they contain!

✨ New

• Search Screenshots: Added a new command to search your screenshots and screen recordings
• Search Screenshots: Added a new command to paste the last screenshot
• Applications: Open recent files directly from application search results.
• Applications: Add directories to Raycast’s application search so it can find portable apps.

🛠 Improvements

• Extensions: Improved scroll smoothness in form views.
• Root Search: Ensured commands that have hotkeys don’t appear in suggestions.
• Root Search: Add a few system settings commands.
• System: Starting from the next update, Raycast’s tray icon wouldn’t collapse if you’ve uncollapsed it by hand.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Navigation: Tweaked copy to not accidentally mention search menu items.
• Root Search: Fixed an issue when right-clicking an item would sometimes immediately trigger an action in the action panel.
• Root Search: Fixed lingering item hover states.
• Settings: Fixed Settings window being always on top.
• Extensions: Fix a bug where the onboarding screen of an extension would be closed right away
• Extensions: Fixed the order of the preferences on the onboarding screen