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Another one is ability to set up Global shortcut to invoke Apps.

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It is completely free to use for personal use.Unlike Alfred, searching them is easy inside Raycast. The store is filled with lot of ‘extensions’ for many integrations and the list is growing.You can see your calendar schedule with Raycast.Browsing through menu made simple and firey-fast with Raycast.Ĭhrome’s Menu can be easily picked with Raycast For example, if you’re using Chrome, and you want to access Chrome’s menu (located in the menu bar), you can invoke Raycast while Chrome is open, and (after choosing “Search menu item” from list) type the menu item name, then Raycast will filter out those menu items for you to access. I love accessing Menu bar menus through Raycast.I like the converters and currency converters with latest currency values. Love the built-in calculator with natural language processing.(If you try it, you’ll understand what I am talking) It gives more flexibility than I done in Alfred. I love the ability to access those sub menu options through (Cmd + K) button.(Formerely I was using separate app for this. Just invoke Raycast and type “left” and choose “Left Half” from the list to snap your current app’s window to tile on the left half of the screen. Utilitarian ‘Window management’ options.

I personally think it is far more polished and sophisticated than Alfred. I won’t rate Raycast in terms of extending its functionailty with custom coding as I don’t do that myself. Maybe for a power user Alfred could be the holy-grail. To extend Alfred’s functionality I used workflows shared by other users in Alfred website. In Alfred, it is difficult for me to build a workflow (custom functionality that users can build on their own, if they are good at coding). Raycast is relatively new to Alfred, yet it’s store has all the specific add-on fuctions I needed. Raycast has an in-built store, where you can find a add-on for a specific functionality and add it then and there.

Adding skill to the tool is easy in Raycast.

Most of the functions are built-in like calculator, seeing calendar schedule etc. For example Raycast few preferences (settings) to tune. With few tries, you can understand how Raycast works while Alfred has somewhat less-steep learning curve than Raycast. This is may be because I was using Alfred for more than few years and Raycast is close to Alfred in terms of interacting.

Raycast has a very little (easy) learning curve.

There are a few reasons I decided to stick with Raycast or the areas where Raycast shines over Alfred. Remember I am not representing the power users who play with Alfred’s workflow and automation with fine coding.

That doesn’t mean Raycast is all the way better than Alfred.

Well, originally my plan was to use Raycast alongside Alfred.Īfter installing it and starting using it, I never looked back Alfred. So I decided to give it a try for a week. Obviously, Raycast is a contender to Alfred. A replacement for Apple’s ‘spotlight’ search feature in Mac.

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I wrote this article couple of years back Save incredible time with Alfred for Mac and was using Alfred together with a few of my other productivity toolsets.

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It was a wonderful experience using Alfred on those days when ‘Spotlight’ hasn’t gained its full potential. Since I started using Mac, I am using Alfred with ‘Powerpack’ (premium that costs a few bucks).