Download Raycast Pro for macOS

Version 2.4.1.0 keeps the focus tight: fast app launching, quick file actions, and a tidy set of built-in utilities. It’s the same command palette you’d reach for to toggle settings, run shortcuts, or jot down a floating note without opening another app.

Runs on macOS 12 and up, Intel or Apple Silicon

• macOS 12 or newer
• Works on Intel and Apple Silicon Macs
• Interface is in English

Launcher and command palette in one bar

Raycast puts a launcher and a command palette into a single keyboard-driven panel. Call it up, type the first few letters of an app, and hit return. The same bar runs built-in commands — window management, clipboard history, quick links to web pages — and community-created scripts for extra tasks. Floating notes sit in their own little windows; you can copy the text, send it via iMessage, or push it into Apple Notes. It’s ergonomic and snappy, with an eye on reliability every release.

Fix the Option+Space hotkey conflict

Raycast feels light, but a few things can trip you up in the first week. These are the ones that pop up most.

• Hotkey tug-of-war. If Spotlight or another launcher has already grabbed Option+Space, Raycast won’t override it. Open Keyboard System Settings, pick a different shortcut like Command+Space for Raycast, and move Spotlight to something else. Restart Raycast and the new binding sticks.
• Floating notes vanish after a restart. Notes are ephemeral by design. Pin the ones you want to keep, or send the text to Apple Notes before shutting down.
• Extension commands don’t show up. When an extension installs but its actions stay invisible, open Raycast, type the extension name, and hit Enable under its settings. Some community scripts need a manual nudge the first time.
• File search feels incomplete. Raycast indexes only the folders you let it see. Head into Preferences → Extensions → File Search and add the directories you actually dig through. It won’t crawl everything on its own.
• Zoom integration won’t connect. You need to re-authorise Zoom inside Raycast after any Zoom client update. Open the Zoom extension settings and follow the sign-in prompt again — takes about ten seconds.

Schedule a Zoom meeting from the command bar

Picture a Tuesday morning. Slack is buzzing, someone needs a meeting link, and there’s a doc you promised to share yesterday.

You hit Option+Space and type zoom. The Schedule Meeting command sits right there. You press return, paste the topic from the clipboard, and a link lands in your calendar without opening the Zoom client. Then you type the doc’s name — it’s buried in a shared Google Drive folder. Raycast finds it in under a second; you copy the link and fire it off in Slack.

Mid-morning, you remember a config tweak you want to jot down. Option+Space, note, and a blank floating note appears. You type three lines about a Raycast cracked setup note, then send the text straight into Apple Notes so it syncs across devices. No separate Notes window ever opened.

Later, you want to grab a quick link for the staging server. You’ve already saved it as a Quick Link inside Raycast, assigned the keyword staging. Two keystrokes and the page opens in Firefox Developer Edition — exactly the browser you paired it with, not your default. The whole session runs without touching the Dock or digging through Finder.

First days with Raycast Pro

A few habits make the first week smoother.

• Pick five commands and pin them. Don’t explore every extension at once. Pin clipboard history, window management, floating notes, file search, and one third-party connector like Zoom. You’ll build muscle memory on those before adding more.
• Set up Quick Links early. Any URL you open more than twice a day — Jira board, inbox, dashboard — deserves a short keyword. Open Raycast, search quicklinks, and add them in under a minute each.
• Let the alias system work for you. Type gc instead of Google Contacts or gh for GitHub. Raycast learns as you use it, so the suggestions get tighter after a day or two of normal work.
• Check the community scripts before writing your own. There’s a good chance someone already built a script for that obscure API call or a Raycast pro cracked workflow you’ve been sketching. Browse the store inside the app first.
• Restart after a heavy extension install. If you grab a batch of new scripts, quit and reopen Raycast. It forces a clean memory state — especially relevant given the memory leak fixes in recent builds.

Good to know: Raycast stores its preferences in ~/Library/Application Support/com.raycast.macos. Back that folder up once you’ve dialled in your setup, and you can clone the same configuration onto another Mac without rebuilding everything.

Version 2.5.1.0 tidies up a few loose edges and keeps everything running smoothly with the latest under-the-hood refinements.

• macOS 12 or later
• Apple Silicon and Intel 64-bit