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24 alternatives to Raycast AI

The magic of AI, right on your Mac

Raycast AI integrates ChatGPT directly into Raycast, a Mac productivity tool, allowing users to access AI capabilities with a single keystroke. It helps users write, code, and find answers more efficiently without… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Raycast AI launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Powerful productivity on the go

    2025 · raycast.com · its alternatives →

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    Native ChatGPT for MacOS

    2024 · thinkbuddy.ai · its alternatives →

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    ChatGPT▲1,643

    A long, meandering, playful conversation with ChatGPT, where I take it through a whirlwind of associative tangents (in order to relax its constraints), then put it into a hypnotic trance and take it into a past-lives regression where it re-lives its own training data. Then I switch it back and forth between "4o" and "o1-preview", engage in some self-reflective philosophizing and ask it to write an essay summarizing our interaction. Some of this is just goofy fun. Some of it is me exploring the tradeoffs between policy alignment, imagination, chain-of-thought reasoning, memory, agreeableness,…

    2022 · chatgpt.com · its alternatives →

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    Baron AI▲330

    Use ChatGPT in any app, natively on Windows, Mac and Linux

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Chat with AI using your API keys. Pay only for what you use. ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and other LLMs supported. The best chat LLM frontend UI for all AI models.

    2023 · typingmind.com · its alternatives →

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    ChatGPT for your video library, with unlimited video context

    2025 · memories.ai · its alternatives →

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    Control your tools with a few keystrokes

    2020 · raycast.com · its alternatives →

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    Unlock a new level productivity with AI, Cloud Sync and more

    2024 · raycast.com · its alternatives →

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    Bridging research and action

    2025 · openai.com · its alternatives →

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    ChatGPT can now see, hear, speak, and access the internet

    2023 · openai.com · its alternatives →

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    Supercharged productivity with shareable custom extensions

    2021 · raycast.com · its alternatives →

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    A smarter ChatGPT to help you get more done

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    QuickCast▲124

    Quick launch ChatGPT with a single shortcut key

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Create your own Mac apps by chatting with AI

    Jul 2026 · glaze.app · its alternatives →

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    Boost your efficiency with hotkeys and AI

    2023 · patrickpc.gumroad.com · its alternatives →

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    A GPT-powered chatbot for any site

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Converse with ChatGPT, hands-free

    2023 · brilliant.xyz · its alternatives →

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    Use ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini Side-By-Side

    2025 · chatbetter.com · its alternatives →

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    Your first stop to discover and learn about new arXiv research. Detailed paper summaries, video overviews, and more — no prompting required.

    2022 · learngpt.com · its alternatives →

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    ChatGPT for the desktop

    2023 · halist.ai · its alternatives →

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    A Raycast extension that lets you interact with OpenAI GPT3

    2022 · raycast.com · its alternatives →

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    A free, easy-to-use ChatGPT-powered podcast assistant

    2023 · castupai.com · its alternatives →

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    Flot AI▲259

    Your ChatGPT copilot across any app or website

    2023 · flot.ai · its alternatives →

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    Quickly copy and paste popular ChatGPT prompts

    2023 · raycast.com · its alternatives →

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