Changelog

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

Raycast Notes is here! Capture thoughts instantly without switching apps. Think it. Note it. Never lose your flow.

Raycast Notes is a lightweight tool that helps you capture ideas quickly without breaking your focus. Use it to track todos, jot down meeting notes, or save thoughts as they come— all from anywhere with a single hotkey. Check out our manual for more information.

During the Windows Beta period, we’re excited to offer you full access to this feature, including unlimited notes, for free.

✨ New

• Raycast Notes: Toggles the Notes window. 🎉
• Create Note: Creates a new note and opens the window. It’s ideal to capture your thoughts with zero friction.
• Search Notes: Search all your notes by title and content, making it easy to revisit previous notes.
• Advanced Settings: Added new “Open Folders in Tabs” setting to open folders as new tabs in an existing Windows Explorer window.

💎 Improvements

• General: Added support for tooltips throughout the UI, including 3rd party extensions.
• Import Settings and Data: Importing from macOS Raycast now includes hotkeys, aliases, extensions and extension settings.
• System: “Quit All Apps Except Frontmost” command now provides clearer feedback, citing the name of the surviving app.

🐞 Fixes

• AI: Fixed AI command/mode icons not being rendered correctly.
• Export Settings and Data: Fixed a bug which caused export to fail sometimes.
• General: Fixed a bug where the window couldn’t be dragged when an alert was displayed.
• Settings: Fixed an issue where sometimes it wasn’t possible to focus the textarea by clicking on it in AI settings.
• General: Fixed an issue causing focus loss with Raycast

Raycast on Windows now supports Script Commands!

They allow you to run your frequently used scripts in a few keystrokes, or bind them to a shortcut.

Script Commands let you bring your own automation into Raycast by writing simple scripts in any language you prefer — whether it's C#, Bash, Powershell, Python, Node.js, or others. Define a title, description, and other metadata at the top of your script file, and Raycast turns it into a fully searchable command, just like a built-in one.

Quickly create a new script with Create Script Command or import existing scripts by adding a Script Directory from Settings. You can learn more about the metadata format in our repo.

✨ New

• Switch Windows: List all open windows of your running applications and switch instantly. Search for window titles or app names and use the action panel to perform common window or application-related actions.
• Games: Added quick actions to reclassify applications as games and vice versa.

💎 Improvements

• Core: Improve foreground window tracking

🐞 Fixes

• System: Fixed an issue where windows couldn't be properly resized from the top and right edges.
• System: Fixed an issue where the window resize area was too thin.
• System: Fixed an issue when Raycast window won’t show up on hotkey in some environments.
• System: Fixed an issue with Typescript-based script commands throwing an error.

You can now index network and removable volumes for File Search.

Simply add them to the Search Scope in File Search Settings, and they will be automatically indexed. You can toggle deleting files in these volumes from the index when the volumes are disconnected via the “Keep Files from Removed Volumes” setting.

When indexing, local and non-removable volumes are indexed first, followed by network volumes and finally by removable volumes.

This enables extending File Search for cloud storage services that expose storage as a network mount, like Filen.io.

✨ New

• File Search: Allow indexing of removable and network drives

💎 Improvements

• File Search: Directories matching a query ending with a slash will now rank higher than their children.
• Quicklinks: Pin, Unpin, Move up and Move down actions are now available for Quicklinks.
• Run: Added shell selection (CMD, PowerShell, etc.) when creating or editing custom Run commands.
• Run: Updated command icons with a fresh design.
• Snippets: Added support for HTML snippet injection.

🐞 Fixes

• File Search: Ensure the “Keep Files from Removed Volumes” setting is accessible to users.
• Run: Fixed an issue where executables weren't found correctly due to PATH resolution.
• Settings: Fixed popovers sometimes being cut-off or badly positioned.
• Snippets: Fixed an issue where multi-line snippets weren't expanding correctly.
• Snippets: Fixed an issue where snippet expansion didn't work correctly when NumLock was enabled.
• Snippets: Fixed an issue where snippets could trigger incorrectly after switching windows.
• Snippets: Improved clipboard timing and Unicode character handling for more reliable expansion.
• Quicklinks: Fixed issue when creating a Quicklink to be opened with a default app.

We're thrilled to bring our Typing Practice extension to Raycast for Windows! Start a new session using the new Start Typing Practice command and choose one of the available modes (”Quote” or “Time”) which feature a wide variety of quotes.

We’ve collaborated with Monkeytype to bring you a great typing experience, help you improve your speed and accuracy and track your progress.

Get ready to type your way to mastery!

✨ New

• Typing Practice: New extension 🎉
• Run: Create custom Run commands, execute them directly from the root search, and assign custom hotkeys. All are backward compatible with the classic Run dialog.
• Run: New Create Run Command command to create custom Run commands.
• Run: New Search Run Commands command to manage custom Run commands.

💎 Improvements

• Applications: Add missing shortcuts to Quit / Force Quit applications.
• Clipboard History: Clipboard history items are deduplicated more intelligently.
• Settings: Improved grouping in Advanced Settings.

🐞 Fixes

• Settings: Fixed file picker width being too small in 3rd party extension settings.
• Store: Fixed Search Store command accessories spacing being too far apart.