Raycast AI
raycast.comSummary
Ask questionsRaycast AI is a desktop productivity tool that integrates AI capabilities directly into the operating system. It provides an AI chat interface, quick AI answers, and AI-powered commands and extensions to automate tasks and interact with various applications. The platform also supports team collaboration through shared commands and snippets, and offers privacy controls for user data.
Features8/14
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Task Automation
Workflow Observation
Pattern Analysis
Actionable Suggestions
Other
7 of 10
Macro Recording
Smart Templates Library
Contextual Inline Help
Integration APIs
Team Collaboration
Privacy Controls
Non-Intrusive UI
Onboarding Accelerator
Analytics Dashboard
Knowledge Sharing
PricingTiered
See allRaycast
- Core features, including:Clipboard History, Quicklinks, Calculator, Snippets, Emoji Picker, Window Management + many more...
- Raycast AI 50 Free Messages. Try any Pro model. Or use your own API key (BYOK).
- Raycast Notes 5 Free Notes
- Raycast for iOS
- Thousands of extensions
- Custom Extensions
- Developer Tooling
Raycast Pro
- Everything in Free
- Raycast AI, including: Raycast Ray-1, Ray-1 mini, OpenAI GPT-4.1 mini, GPT-4.1 nano, GPT-4o mini, o4-mini, o3-mini, Anthropic Claude 3.5 Haiku, Perplexity Sonar, Sonar Reasoning, Sonar Reasoning Pro, Mistral Nemo, Mistral Small 3, Codestral, Google Gemini 2.5 Flash, Gemini 2.0 Flash, Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking, xAI Grok-3 Mini Beta
- Cloud Sync Sync Snippets, Notes, Chats with other Macs, and iOS
- Translator
- Unlimited Raycast Notes
- Unlimited Clipboard History
- Custom Window Management
- Custom Themes
Pro + Advanced AI
- Everything in Pro
- Advanced AI Models, including: OpenAI GPT-4.1, GPT-4, GPT-4 Turbo, GPT-4o, o3, o1, Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Claude 3.7 Sonnet (Reasoning), Claude 3 Opus, Claude 4 Sonnet, Claude 4 Opus, Claude 4 Sonnet (Reasoning), Claude 4 Opus (Reasoning), Perplexity Sonar Pro, Mistral Large, Mistral Medium, Google Gemini 2.5 Pro, xAI Grok-3 Beta, Grok-2
Teams Pro
- Everything in Pro
- Unlimited Shared Commands
- Unlimited Shared Snippets
- Unlimited Shared Quicklinks
- Private Store
Teams + Advanced AI
- The best for your whole team
Rationale
Raycast AI offers a desktop assistant that integrates with the OS to provide AI chat, quick answers, and automation. While it doesn't explicitly state 'workflow observation' or 'pattern analysis' in the same way as the concept, its 'AI Extensions' and 'AI Commands' allow for automation of repetitive tasks and interactions across applications, which implies a form of task automation and macro recording. It also offers 'Smart Templates Library' through its 'AI Commands' and 'Prompt Explorer', 'Contextual Inline Help' via 'Quick AI' and 'AI Chat', 'Integration APIs' through its Extension Store, 'Team Collaboration' features for sharing commands and snippets, 'Privacy Controls' by storing data locally and prohibiting model training, and a 'Non-Intrusive UI' with its floating window and quick access. The core difference is that Raycast AI is more of a user-driven automation tool with AI capabilities, rather than an AI that 'observes' and 'analyzes patterns' to suggest automations proactively.