What people previously said about Raycast

“**Tinycast is also open-source, supports Raycast extensions, and consumes very little RAM.**”

“Two months ago my subscription renewed and now the terms have changed mid-cycle. That is not something you do. I am done and I have canceled my subscription.”

“I have cancelled and not going back to paid anymore because … force injecting AI is literally no use. I am not going to use frontier AI models in Raycast for coding or other engineering work.”

“Especially for those who just want Raycast without all the AI push.”

“I am uninstalling Raycast completely and just using spotlight. I'll miss what Raycast was.”

“I moved to tinycast. Years long Raycast’s user. Not anymore. The fact that MCP is now paid option is a total let down.”

“Agreed but a lot of people thought Raycast is better”

“I've been on team Alfred for this entire team while Raycast was the fancy new popular kid on the block. It looks like I was right all along to stay with Alfred.”

“The way Raycast team is behaving these days, even removing posts from their sub. Alternatives like supercmd makes a lot of sense. Thank you for building it.”

“I’m a pro+ subscriber and I’m probably profitable since one week into this experiment I’ve used 500 credits so probably, fingers crossed 3,000 will be ok for me and for them. But people who are blowing through their monthly allowance in a day or two, as many Reddit users say, are clearly unprofitable and should either be on a higher tier or somewhere else.”

“I never got the appeal of Raycast. It always felt bloated and slow to me.”

“Trying to force an AI wrapper onto that community makes very little sense.”

“I am still on Raycast 1, I do not use AI features or CloudSync so it suits my needs and its free.”

“Recently canceled my subscription too, after couple years of paying. I don't like the direction of Raycast development.”

“Raycast 2 went cross-platform. If you left it on Mac, what did you switch to?”

“But putting BYOK behind a paywall is difficult to understand.”

“Recently, there has been more and more negativity about Raycast. Have they really seen it and taken action?”

“I look at the Raycast team, their transparency, honesty, and willingness to admit when they get it wrong, then I look at browser company of new york, and I’m so grateful we have the Raycast team.”

“Raycast is turning a once-excellent launcher and productivity tool into an expensive AI wrapper. That may be a valid business strategy, but it’s no longer a product I’m willing to pay for.”

“For one year of Raycast, will afford you a lifetime of Alfred.”

“Problem is that I also use Raycast on windows. Having similar hotkeys setup between Mac and windows is extremely helpful to me.”

“I was almost tempted away from Alfred to Raycast a year or so ago because it was shiny, but got weird vibes. Glad I stuck with Alfred.”

“After years of Pro subscription I finally moved away from Raycast”

“Still time for the raycast crowd to hop on the Alfred train. We welcome you.”

“That being said I only stay with it because no other app comes close to the extension library it has.”

“Raycast is still a great product, but some of these changes make it feel like they’re optimizing for monetization rather than the user experience that made the app popular in the first place. Hopefully they take the feedback seriously.”

“Used to use Raycast but once it had the clipboard and shortcuts launching I switched to Spotlight”

“I'm so glad I never left Alfred for Raycast. Sure in terms of feature parity, Raycast has more.”

“Is my old raycast still going to work? I don’t do much with it but my muscle memory on that keyboard shortcut is engrained”

“Raycast works really well for me, it's by far the best tool I know in its category.”

“I’ve also wondered why to pay for Wisprflow when I’ve got raycast dictation though the latter seems buggier lately on iPhone”

“Didn't upgrade to v2 and will wait to see where the situation turns.Probably it's time to look atound again to see what alternatives appeared since then.”

“Until raycast make dictation limited even if paying Pro, just like AI which is crazy limited now”

“If you guys need a alternative that works with Raycast extensions, Vicinae’s probably the best”

“I used to use whisper flow and then handy but Handy is not as slick as raycast.”

“Raycast is deleting posts with negative feedback or concerns about their new pricing model”

“Just wait until you have to buy credits per word for Raycast's dictate feature”

“Raycast Pro is US$96/year. As far as I can tell, its dictation is just as good. Plus you get all the other Pro features.”

“I have a huge problem with a company that changes the terms of a subscription i already paid for. That is simply bait and switch. Perplexity is the worse offender but now my beloved Raycast.”

“I'm beginning to teach myself to use Siri instead but my muscle memory is wired to bring up Raycast and tab.”

“I might consider switching to other tools. I understand you, but it’s also a pity—I may have to switch to other software.”

“Great Point! Without those extensions and those great developers, Raycast would be nothing? Raycast sharing revenue with the devs?”

“I just think for 10$ or 20$ or 50$ they will never offer the same level as the actual ai companies”

“I am seriously not going to be using Raycast for that much longer. I'm happy to use it whilst I take my time to find an alternative.”

“You built Raycast on hype and community support, and now you have the nerve to respond this way to the people who made the community what it is.”

“They said their investors see Raycast as an “AI company” so I imagine the VCs they are throwing money at Raycast because of this perception they have and Raycast wants to make money for these VCs.”

“No offense, love Raycast and have evangelized it til now, but the bait and switch on BYOK is just a step too far IMO.”

“Compared to other vendors, they actually seem highly uneconomical at best, dubious at worst.”

“Raycast can be used as a launcher for free. If you don't use AI and only want a launcher then you have no problem.”

“The transition to V2 left my secondary computer—an Intel MacBook—unable to keep up with the new version. The unannounced change in AI has been the last straw for me.”