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24 alternatives to Raycast (YC W20) – Spotlight for Developers
A collection of powerful productivity tools all within an extendable launcher.
Raycast is a spotlight application designed for developers. Launched in 2020, it provides a launcher interface that helps developers quickly access tools, commands, and information. The product is built specifically… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Raycast (YC W20) – Spotlight for Developers launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Supercharged productivity with shareable custom extensions
2021 · raycast.com · its alternatives →
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Raycast Notes▲1,058Unlock a new level productivity with AI, Cloud Sync and more
2024 · raycast.com · its alternatives →
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Take an idea from anywhere and turn it into code
2024 · raycast.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I'm a huge fan of Raycast, but as a Linux user, I was always disappointed it wasn't available on my main OS. This summer, I decided to just build it myself. This project has the goal of being interoperable with Raycast itself, including a majority of the extensions. It's built with Tauri and Rust on the backend, with a Svelte frontend. The biggest challenge was getting it to run existing Raycast extensions, which required building a custom React renderer as well as making a custom API. I also wrote a quick post, which I hope to expand on in the future, about this project. You can…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Glaze by Raycast▲647Create your own Mac apps by chatting with AI
Jul 2026 · glaze.app · its alternatives →
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SuperDev Pro▲84Raycast built for your browser — packed with 16 tools
2025 · superdevpro.com · its alternatives →
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Say hello to your productivity journey for the year of 2023
2023 · raycast.com · its alternatives →
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Create beautiful icons for your projects, apps or extensions
2022 · ray.so · its alternatives →
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Search, watch and download all WWDC21 sessions on your Mac
2021 · raycast.com · its alternatives →
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A tool to easily share, browse and import Raycast Themes
2023 · ray.so · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! I’ve always been a fan of application launchers, and I was impressed by the approach the Raycast team took — especially their extension system. About six months ago I started building something similar for Linux, aiming to integrate deeply at the OS level and give extensions a lot of power. Vicinae is written in C++ with Qt Widgets. I chose Widgets over QML for more imperative control of the UI, especially around extension handling. So far that’s worked well — modern C++ is great. To support my goals I built a number of custom widgets, including a fully virtualized list that can…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Delegate tasks and track progress from Raycast
2025 · raycast.com · its alternatives →
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2020 · ahuth.github.io · its alternatives →
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CODECAST▲254HTML & CSS editor in your browser with real-time previews
2015 · codecast.me · its alternatives →
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RayThis▲178Generate pretty code snippets right out of VSCode
2021 · marketplace.visualstudio.com · its alternatives →
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Keyboard-first control for Google Antigravity IDE
Nov 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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