Changelog

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