Changelog

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
• 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
• Clipboard History: Improved contrast of color swatch in color items
• Dictation: Cancelling a dictation now stops it immediately
• Dictation: Transcription is more reliable on slower connections
• 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
• Memory Usage: Reduced memory overhead from command icons and deferred loading diagram support until needed
• Memory Usage: Reduced memory used by file indexing
• Memory Usage: Reduced memory use in idle extension workers
• Performance: Reduced extension worker startup CPU usage
• 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 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
• AI Projects: Fixed the missing New Folder button when choosing a project's working directory
• Emoji Picker: Ensured AI results are stable when pasting & keeping the window open
• Extensions: Fixed extension updates failing on Windows for extensions that include AI skills
• Extensions: Fixed AppPicker width something blowing up
• Extensions: Fixed colored tags/icons being illegible in some cases
• File Search: Fixed recent files disappearing while the file index updates
• 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
• 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
• Root Search: Fixed results lagging or staying outdated when opening Raycast while file indexing is busy
• Root Search: Fixed running app and game indicators ignoring the preference to hide them
• Script Commands: Fixed fallback commands not receiving the search query as their first argument
• System: Fixed Raycast failing to start, or crashing, when an audio device or media session is unavailable or unplugged
• 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
• 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
• Script Commands: Added line wrapping to full output so long lines are easier to read

🐞 Fixes

• 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
• File Search: Classify NFS, VirtualBox and other mounted volumes correctly as non-local volumes
• Quick AI: Fixed ctrl + Enter (Copy Response) and alt + Enter (Paste Formatted Response) not working right after a response in some cases
• Store: Fixed Install Extension Anyway failing for extensions marked as unsupported on your platform
• AI Profile: Fixed clearing and saving an empty profile
• Open With…: Fixed the menu initially selecting an unrelated app before recommended apps finished loading
• Calculator: Fixed currency conversions using missing or outdated rates during refreshes

✨ New

• System: New Toggle Airplane Mode command to switch airplane mode on and off straight from the root search

💎 Improvements

• AI Chat: Copying or pasting a response now takes only the final answer, leaving out the working narration that came before it
• Script Commands: Scripts now run from their own folder by default, with support for relative and home-directory paths
• Store: Added update details showing which extensions were updated, skipped, removed, or failed, with access to version history
• System: Toggle HDR, Toggle Night Light, Toggle Hidden Files and Toggle System Appearance now confirm the resulting state

🐞 Fixes

• AI: Fixed messages and corresponding reasoning sometimes appearing in the wrong order
• 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.
• Clipboard History: Fixed Save as File and Save as Snippet being unavailable for large text entries
• Commands: Fixed commands failing to launch while a confirmation dialog was closing
• Core: fix dialogues like Send Feedback being in a wrong Z-order in certain situations
• 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 extensions failing to store cached data when their cache namespace contained characters Windows does not allow in a folder name
• File Search: Fixed deleted files remaining among recent files until the next search
• 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 & Calendar: Fixed duration inputs such as “until 15:00” and “until 3pm” not being recognised
• Script Commands: Fixed quickly finishing scripts getting stuck on “Running” and missing error messages when scripts failed to start

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.

📁 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 a codebase, an Obsidian vault, or any folder on your Mac, 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

• Window Management: Added Focus Next App Window and Focus Previous App Window commands that cycle through the windows of the focused app
• Window Management: Added Minimize on This Display, a per-monitor Show Desktop that minimizes every window on the display Raycast is on and leaves the other monitors untouched
• Window Management: Custom layouts have a new Other Windows option: Minimize Others minimizes every window that isn't part of the layout when it's applied, and Close Others closes them (including already-minimized ones) as a workspace reset, with apps keeping their unsaved-changes prompts
• 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: 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: Model picker now show your recently used models
• AI: @ mention menu will now order options based on frecency
• AI: Search the / model menu and @ mention menu by provider, so typing /ollama or /openai finds the matching models
• Script Commands: Added support for using scripts with a text argument as fallback commands
• 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

🐞 Fixes

• AI Chat: Fixed tool calls silently losing their arguments when streamed from a custom provider in certain cases
• 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
• Applications: Fixed some packaged apps (like Spotify) intermittently disappearing from running apps and frontmost-app detection
• Calculator: Fixed missing results for “now”, “time”, “today”, “tomorrow”, and “yesterday”
• Calculator: Fixed unnecessary results appearing when entering plain numbers
• Calculator History: Fixed an issue where some calculations would appear to truncate too eagerly in the list view
• Extensions: Fixed an issue with form label/control alignment
• Extensions: Fixed getting stuck on the success screen after forking an extension
• Extensions: Updated outdated AI models used by extensions and fixed creativity settings being ignored
• File Search: Fixed a few cases where case sensitivity was causing File Search to exclude or include paths unintentionally
• File Search: File Search should now trigger a full re-index on startup and wake-up less often
• Hotkeys: Fixed the Copilot key (Hyper Key) toggling Raycast when the hotkey is the bare Windows key, and pressing Win while another modifier is already held no longer counts as a Win tap
• Hyper Key: Fixed Caps Lock staying on after leaving a game when Caps Lock is set as the Hyper Key
• Launch at Login: Fixed Raycast not starting at login when a Microsoft Store update was still being registered
• MCP: Fixed sign-in failures with some servers, including Tripsy
• Root Search: Fixed an issue where the action panel could sometimes reopen when navigating back to Root Search
• Settings: Fixed Escape inside a Settings dialog closing the whole Settings window instead of the dialog
• Settings: Fixed several Windows Settings search results opening the general settings page instead of the specific sub-page they described
• Store: Fixed cut-off extension details on the installation screen
• Store: Fixed installing extensions after choosing to ignore platform restrictions, and updating those extensions afterward

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
• Window Management: Applying a custom layout now forms a native snap group, so arranged windows keep Windows' joint-resize dividers and Snap Assist no longer gets in the way
• Root Search: Apps can now be found by their executable name or execution alias (e.g. "devenv" finds Visual Studio), and apps sharing a name are disambiguated in search and app pickers
• File Search: Deep directories no longer outrank shallower or more recent files
• Run: Added Run in Shell and Run in Shell as Administrator actions, plus a Shell preference in Run settings, so commands can run in your shell of choice with the terminal left open
• Run: Searching Run Commands now matches the command text itself, not just its name, so you can find a saved command by what it actually does
• System: Added an Automatically Show the Taskbar setting so an auto-hidden Windows taskbar reveals itself whenever Raycast is open

🐞 Fixes

• Applications: Fixed browser-profile app entries acting on windows that belong to other profiles
• Clipboard: Fixed files copied to the clipboard (e.g. by Capture Window) not pasting into apps that expect an image
• 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 on fractional display scaling, 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
• 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
• Settings: Fixed opening a setting closing the already-open Settings window instead of focusing it
• Window Management: Fixed maximized and minimized windows being placed on the wrong monitor when applying a layout

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

• AI Chat: Fixed run errors rendering above tool calls in some situations
• AI Chat: Fixed failed image generations and remote tools appearing as completed
• AI Chat: Fixed the collapsed reasoning-effort icon being pushed to the right by accident
• Applications: App icons now follow the light/dark appearance, so monochrome icons like ChatGPT's are no longer invisible in dark mode
• Quick AI: Added support for dropping files from File Explorer 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
• Updater: Raycast now relaunches itself after an update installed by the Microsoft Store or winget, instead of staying closed until the next logon
• Windows Settings: Settings are now filtered by your device's capabilities, so entries like lid actions only show up on laptops
• Windows Settings: Settings are grouped into browsable sections instead of one flat list
• Windows Settings: Settings have shorter, more searchable names, and irrelevant Windows entries like "Set up a kiosk" are gone.

🐞 Fixes

• Applications: Fixed duplicate search entries for some winget-installed apps
• Applications: Fixed placeholder icons for shortcuts whose icon file no longer exists, such as uninstalled Steam games
• AI Chat: Fixed a text scaling issue in “Ask Question” tool
• Capture Window: Fixed captured screenshots getting a dark one-pixel border, which made them fail the extension store's image check.
• 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)
• Dictation: Fixed dictations losing audio or failing on stop during long sessions.
• Dictation: Fixed context-aware paste inserting wrong spacing and hanging on slow apps.
• Dictation: Fixed auto submit missing the keyword when quoted or punctuated.
• 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
• Extensions: Restored @raycast/api 1.x compatibility
• File Search: Fixed an issue preventing file index compaction causing elevated disk space utilization
• File Search: Fixed an issue causing files and directories to not be properly excluded due to case mismatch
• File Search: Fixed an issue where directories matching a term and containing many children would be hidden from results by its contents
• 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
• Settings: Fixed slow bulk enable/disable in Shortcuts settings.

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, Windows users don’t need to take any additional action. Raycast will update in the background or you can run check for updates like you usually do. We are also bumping up our Windows version to 2.0.0.0 to align with our macOS versioning.

During the beta, all of our Pro features were available for free while we tested and improved the experience. With this release, those features are now part of Raycast Pro, including Dictation and AI Chat.

To help with the transition, signing in gives you a 7 day free trial of Pro including all AI models available on this plan. No credit card is required.

✨ 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
• Dictation: New Context-Aware Paste setting (experimental) adapts each transcription to the text before your cursor adding a leading space mid-sentence and matching capitalization
• Dictation: New Auto Submit setting (experimental) presses Enter or Shift+Enter after a transcription is pasted, either every time or only when you finish with a chosen keyword
• Dictation: Settings from Wispr Flow, Aqua Voice and Handy can now be imported on Windows, including their hotkeys
• 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 ctrl+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: Improved OCR for PDFs when retrieving relevant context for AI conversations
• AI Commands: Updated the default AI Commands model to GPT-5.6 Luna
• Applications: Show in File Explorer now works for games installed through Steam, Epic, Riot and Ubisoft, and for Microsoft Store apps in protected installation folders
• Dictation: Website-specific transcription styles now recognize Arc, Floorp, Helium and Edge, so per-site styles apply in more browsers
• Dictation: Added a word count to the details of each entry in dictation history
• Focus: Added Floorp browser support
• General: Added Add to dictionary to the right-click menu on text fields
• UI: Improved scrolling performance across the app
• System: Sleep and wake are now detected reliably on modern laptops, so background work pauses during standby and Raycast is responsive again immediately after waking
• Windows Settings: Root search now covers every individual setting from the Windows settings catalog and every Control Panel tasks
• Windows Settings: The Settings window groups Windows settings into the same categories Windows uses, instead of one flat list

🐞 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 Chat: Fixed Send to AI Chat not revealing the AI Chat window after it had been focused once
• AI Skills: Fixed skill folders Raycast cannot read causing repeated background errors, and marked them with a "No Access" badge in Skills settings
• Applications: Fixed Steam games briefly appearing as broken or duplicate entries during updates
• Calculator: Fixed calculator results not being saved to history when the main window was hidden or popped to root
• Dictation: Fixed dictation failing to start when the audio input device was momentarily unavailable.
• Focus: Fixed the Focus panel sometimes not appearing on the virtual desktop you were working on.
• Focus: Fixed the website blocker occasionally mistaking an email address or search phrase typed into a page for the page's own address.
• Root Search: Fixed Tab both opening a file and starting Quick AI
• General: Fixed a crash when dragging an item onto a target that could not accept it.
• General: Fixed copying selected text cancelling the line you were typing in a terminal.
• General: Fixed Show in File Explorer when FilePilot is set as the default file explorer. Revealing folders that require elevated access now also works correctly instead of silently failing.
• Notes: Fixed text being turned into links incorrectly
• Notes: Fixed bug in note deeplinks which opened last viewed note instead of linked note
• System: Fixed the Night Light toggle failing and leaving Windows in a state where Night Light could no longer be turned on.
• System: Fixed volume and audio controls failing after an audio device was unplugged or changed.

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 Ctrl 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 Control Return
• Dictation: Added a new “Add Word to Vocabulary” command to add a selected word or entered argument into your vocabulary
• Dictation: Support for Wispr Flow-style hotkeys: use Ctrl, Ctrl+Win or other modifiers to start dictating, including push-to-talk mode.
• Feedback: New Ask Feedback AI Extension to contact the Raycast team
• Game Launcher: New Game Launcher command to browse every installed game and launcher in one place.
• Hotkeys: You can now assign single or double tap modifiers as hotkeys
• Settings: Diagnostics in Settings → About now warns when microphone access is missing for Dictation and lets you grant it in one click
• Settings: Diagnostics in Settings → About now warns when Windows Sticky Keys can interfere with a double-Shift Quick Fix hotkey, and offers to disable the Sticky Keys shortcut

💎 Improvements

• Capture Window: Screenshots saved for the Store are now normalized to the required 2000×1250 size, and the Store option is only offered when capturing the main window
• Emoji Picker: Added the "Copy with Skin Tone…" action
• Game Launcher: Games installed through Riot Games, Rockstar Games, Battlestate Games, and Roblox are now discovered automatically
• Game Launcher: Xbox and Microsoft Store titles registered with Gaming Services are now recognized as games instead of regular apps
• Hotkeys: The recorder now warns about combinations that can't coexist with an existing hotkey
• Hyperkey: works on JIS keyboards, which means VK_DBE_ALPHANUMERIC can now be used as Hyperkey
• System: “Empty Recycle Bin” HUD feedback is improved

🐞 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
• Apps: MSIX app uninstallation now shows the confirmation HUD only after it’s finished
• Game Launcher: Fixed a crash when a Steam library lives on a drive that is disconnected or unavailable
• Game Launcher: Fixed the EA app installer entry and Steam redistributables showing up as games
• Focus: Fixed the duration picker not highlighting the right option when two durations were equal
• Focus: Fixed an issue where blocked apps could stay open when they ignored the request to close, they are now force-closed
• Focus: Fixed the focus session overlay being mispositioned or wrongly sized after connecting, disconnecting, or rearranging displays
• Quicklook: swaps the previewed file instead of closing when you preview a different image from AI Chat
• Quicklook: fixed “Save image as…” not working in some cases

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
• 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
• Settings: Smoother navigation when jumping to not-yet-loaded settings sections

🐞 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
• App: Fixed hidden windows leaving a button behind on the taskbar
• 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
• Core: improved general stability during shutdown.
• Hotkeys: fixed an issue that caused the hotkeys to not work if upgraded from a certain old Raycast version.
• Notes: Fixed the Notes window occasionally showing stale content or failing to open after a rapid close and reopen
• Notes: Fixed the emoji picker closing when text reflows
• Translator: Result text area can now be selected

The wait is over. Cloud Sync public beta is here. You can now keep your Raycast data in sync across macOS v1, macOS v2, Windows and iOS.

Switch seamlessly between your work and home computers, take notes on the go, or start an AI chat on your phone and continue it on your laptop. These are just a few ways Cloud Sync helps your work flow across devices.

Cloud Sync is available to Raycast Pro subscribers.

✨ New

• AI Chat: Added support for skills. Skills can be loaded into a chat automatically or via @-mention and skill folders can be configured in Settings.
• AI Chat: Screen captures of the entire screen or specific windows can now be attached to AI Chat or Quick AI via menus and commands
• Clipboard History: Added new Reset Paste Sequence command
• Cloud Sync: Sync your data across macOS v1, macOS/Windows v2 beta and iOS
• Cloud Sync: Customize what gets synced across your devices
• Cloud Sync: Manage your synced devices
• Root Search: Added ability to show favorites in compact mode
• Window Management: Create ideal app layout configurations for your optimal workflow with the Create Layout command
• Windows Settings: Open Control Panel items from Raycast

💎 Improvements

• AI: <br> tags in AI markdown now render as line breaks
• AI: @-mentions get preserved when copying a selection in the UI
• AI: @-mentions left in the composer when closing AI Chat get preserved when re-opening AI Chat again
• AI Chat: Consecutive tool calls get collapsed into a group to reduce visual clutter
• AI Chat: Auto-loaded extensions now get persisted into the AI Extensions list of a chat and therefore stay loaded after a restart of AI Chat
• AI Settings: Added default reasoning effort settings to models view
• Applications: Improve audio playing detection for Auto-Quit apps
• File Search: Improved index compaction checkpoints to reduce index size on disk
• Hotkeys: the engine now defaults to using OS hotkeys API so it places nicely with remapping software like PowerToys Keyboard Manager when possible. Note that this feature is not supported for advanced key combinations using Hyperkey, Win key and system hotkey overrides.
• UI: Improved ghost dropdown button design (Settings selects)

🐞 Fixes

• AI Chat: Fixed sidebar peek getting stuck when blurring window during peek open animation
• Changelog: Fixed bad heading baseline alignment (with emoji)
• Core: Fixed an issue where Raycast windows could appear at a wrong size
• Core: Fixed Raycast not launching on startup on some Windows 10 builds.
• Dictation: Fixed an issue where quickly stopping and immediately restarting dictation could fail to begin a new recording.
• File Search: File Search no longer prevents Raycast from launching if the user’s disk is full
• Focus: Fixed an issue where website blocking could intermittently stop working while a browser window was opening, reloading, or changing.
• Hotkeys: fixed an issue where sometimes hotkeys wouldn’t be registered correctly
• HUD: fixed an issue where the toast would not disappear/fade out correctly
• Root Search: Fixed doubly-scaled icon in node command items
• Root Search: Fixed an alignment issue with compact command items
• UI: Fixed potential crashes with virtual list/grid
• UI: Fixed date picker natural language edge cases
• UI: Fixed date picker dropping explicit clock times
• UI: Fixed calendar item icon on low-res screens
• UI: Fixed some icons scaling
• UI: Fixed a regression in preview/details spacing