v0.20March 27, 2025

Snippets

The first iteration of Snippets is here! Snippets are a powerful way to save time by storing frequently used text.

In this release of Snippets, you can:

  • Create plain text snippets
  • Copy snippets or paste them to the frontmost application
  • Pin your most used snippets

In future releases, we’ll be adding rich-text support, a better way to organize your snippets and keyword-based snippet expansion.

✨ New

  • You can now customise the Emoji Picker’s columns, primary action, and skin tone through the Emoji & Symbols settings
  • There is now a new Quick Open command that opens any URL passed to root search
  • There are new system commands for controlling audio playback

💎 Improvements

  • You can now assign a hotkey to any command, not just applications
  • For files that appear in root search, there is now an action to view details in file search
  • You can now find a Check For Updates button inside About settings
  • There is now a new setting for how long Clipboard History is kept for
  • Right clicking a list item will now open the action panel
  • Open left action panel using ctrl shift K in root search

🐞 Fixes

  • General improvements to application discovery
  • Fixed an issue where sometimes the Settings menu item would be stuck in an inactive state
  • The calculator now doesn’t react to small short keywords like “mon”, “tue”, etc.
v0.19March 14, 2025

Emoji Picker

Today we are releasing the first iteration of our Emoji Picker 🎉 to help you express yourself quickly and easily!

In this first version you will be able to:

  • Pick your favourite emoji and copy or paste it to the frontmost application
  • Pin your most used emojis to the top
  • Easily choose from automatically suggested emojis based on your usage
  • Provide your own custom keywords to find an emoji more easily

In the next release, we will be adding some Emoji Picker settings (grid size, preferred skin tone, etc) as well as support for adding hotkeys to commands, so there is more to look forward to this in the coming week(s)!

💎 Improvements

  • Added support for images and files (single & multiple) in Clipboard History
  • Improved the visibility of our main window in light mode
  • The email field in the Send Feedback Command is being pre-populated
  • The settings window can be discarded by pressing the escape key
  • Raycast now opens on the display that contains the mouse pointer and remembers the window location on each display

🐞 Fixes

  • Text containing an email address (amongst other things) is now correctly stored as text
  • Raycast should now consistently open on your active monitor
  • When deleting a file, the window stays focused
  • Alias set for the Emoji Picker should now be correctly saved
v0.18February 26, 2025

Windows Alpha Launch

💎 Improvements

  • Improved the loading speed of our Settings window
  • Improved our "Reveal in explorer" action by ensuring that the selected file is in focus when file explorer opens

🐞 Fixes

  • Fixed the issue with the Start Menu appearing when using the win key as a shortcut
  • Fixed the issue where the title bar text and the minimize/close buttons would be barely readable when changing themes.
  • Fixed an issue where clipboard history was not pasting into the topmost application