Raycast 2.0 left beta on 21 August — details at the bottom — alongside twenty-nine new extensions, including three browser companions, an offline dictionary, and a new Apple Passwords implementation.

Productivity

AirBuddy — by @chrismessina

Drives AirBuddy's new 3.0 AppleScript API. Devices lists nearby hardware grouped by type, with battery reported separately for the AirPods case, left, and right, plus listening mode and actions to connect, disconnect, and toggle spatial audio. Connecting the nearest or favourite headset and setting listening mode are no-view commands, with the mode picker scoped to what the connected headset actually supports.

Sidecar Display — by @chiptoma

Connects an iPad over Sidecar and forces it to extend rather than mirror, without relocating the Mac's main display. Two interchangeable engines are auto-selected: one drives BetterDisplay's CLI, the other has no runtime dependency and goes through the private SidecarCore framework. A status menu bar adds a one-click Auto-Reconnect toggle, and a background command restores a link dropped on its own, such as after waking from sleep.

Link Commands — by @kud

Quicklinks as real files. Raycast Quicklinks live in an encrypted local database, so they can't be grepped, diffed, version-controlled, or synced between machines. This writes a link, folder, or search as a Script Command instead — an ordinary file in a folder you own — downloading the site's icon rather than hotlinking it, and turning a {query} placeholder into a properly encoded search command. It learns your own categories, so a link to theorchard.atlassian.net filed under Jira makes the next one suggest Jira.

Thesaurus Rex — by @invm

An offline thesaurus and dictionary — definitions, examples, synonyms, antonyms, and pronunciation, with copy and paste-to-frontmost-app actions. There's no API, key, or account: a Manage Dictionaries command downloads Open English WordNet 2024 (12.9 MB, CC BY 4.0) and builds a local SQLite database, so no lookup leaves the machine. Synonyms rank by how many senses they share with the query word, which keeps down from suggesting down feather first.

Capd — by @jamiedavenport

A front end for Capd, an open-source, local-first macOS app that captures web pages, selected text, links, notes, and images and finds them again with full-text search. Search covers titles, page text, selections, notes, and OCR'd image text, and takes Capd's own site:, tag:, after:, and before: filters. Capture works from an argument, the current selection, or the clipboard, and updates an existing entry rather than duplicating it. Requires macOS 26.

Yerd — by @kylekanderson

Manages Yerd, a free and open-source local PHP development environment, across six commands. Search Sites lists every local .test site with HTTPS toggle, pinned PHP version, custom domains, and Cloudflare Tunnel sharing. The rest install PHP versions plus Composer, Node, Bun, and WP-CLI; start and stop Redis, MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, and Meilisearch and back up their databases; and cover the built-in SMTP sink, proxy rules, and a daemon health dashboard.

ShowMD — by @l0kyurue1

Drives ShowMD, an open-source CLI that serves a folder or single file on localhost with a rendered read mode, a CodeMirror edit mode, and git-backed save history. Commands open a target or a recent one, list running windows with open/restart/stop, set colour mode, font, browser, and port, and take the current Finder selection, with a menu bar command mirroring the lot. A new target joins an already-running server as a Space rather than spawning a second one.

App Freezer — by @chxsong

A companion for the native App Freezer agent, with commands to pause or resume a running application, resume everything it has paused, and quit or force quit an app. The extension sends no process signals itself — it locates the installed App Freezer bundle and asks the native agent to act. App Freezer 0.1.0 or newer must be installed separately.

Find My Devices — by @Visual-Studio-Coder

Lists your Apple Find My devices plus eligible Family Sharing ones, grouped by owner, with device type, battery level, and sound availability; Enter plays a sound on the selected device. The Apple password and verification code are entered in a local Terminal window, never received or stored by the extension. The author flags up front that this uses private iCloud web endpoints rather than an official Apple API, and that only device listing, Play Sound, and session removal are implemented.

Phi — by @kren-phi

Brings Phi Browser's Spaces, tabs, history, and common browser actions into Raycast: activate Spaces, search history across local profiles, and search open tabs, pinned tabs, and bookmarks across every Space or just the current one. Page actions cover refresh, manage extensions, and Add Split View, and separate commands open a new tab in a chosen Space or a standard or incognito window.

Aside — by @asifk987

Controls the Aside browser: search and manage open tabs, search bookmarks and history across profiles, run web searches, and open new tabs or windows. Tab actions include focus, reload, duplicate, close, and deduplicate. An AI Extension exposes the same to Raycast AI.

Ego Lite — by @virtualcca

Three commands for the Ego Lite browser: create a new blank tab, search local bookmarks, and search local browsing history.

Paper Design — by @asifk987

Browses and opens recent Paper files, creates new files in the active team, and manages design tokens across open or recent files — searching, copying, creating, editing, and deleting colour, typography, spacing, radius, breakpoint, and container tokens. It talks to Paper Desktop through its local endpoint, so traffic between the two apps stays on the Mac.

Zoomer — by @colindotfun

Drives Zoomer, a macOS screen capture and recording app, through deep links. Capture Area and Capture Full Screen take a screenshot with an optional output argument — copy, save to folder, or upload — while Start and Stop Recording control recordings and further commands jump to capture history, recordings, screenshots, and settings. If the app isn't installed, commands show a toast pointing at the download page rather than firing a broken deep link.

Sitemap — by @alexi-build

Searches any website's sitemap and opens or copies its pages, taking either a URL you provide or the current browser tab.

CRT Name — by @0xdhrv

Finds subdomains indexed for an apex domain by crt.name and shows when each one first appeared.

Updates to existing productivity extensions:

• Apple Passwords: adds a new implementation which resolves a longstanding issue which made this extension unusable.
• Tmux Sessioner: a Search Session Output command doing full-text search across the scrollback of every pane in every tmux session — both the commands you ran and the output they printed — so finding which session held an error means searching rather than remembering. Results group by session with surrounding lines in the detail pane, and ⏎ switches straight to the matching session and window.
• WinGet: package icons plus a round of fixes from a week of daily use. Icons come from WinGet's COM API, which the CLI can't provide, so a small Rust binary reads each package's manifest icon, falls back to the homepage icon, and caches it; resolution runs in the background and pauses during an install so it never competes for winget. Fixes cover long installs being cut off early, a clearer "winget not found" error, and smarter retries in Upgrade All.
• Renaming: every rename command is now explicit about whether it targets files or folders — Rename File(s) and Replace in File Names act on files alone, new Rename Folder(s) and Replace in Folder Names act on folders alone, and Advanced Batch Rename gains an "Apply to" scope. This is a breaking change: the file commands previously operated on any Finder selection including folders, with no way to act on one type in a mixed selection.
• Espanso: two fixes to Search Matches. A match with a label couldn't be found by its trigger, because the list filter reads only title, subtitle, and keywords and a labelled match put only the label in its title; triggers now go into keywords, split so ;;email.ooo also indexes as email and ooo. A long Label tag that ran past the edge of the detail panel is now truncated.
• Brew: an Adopt action (⌘⇧I) in Search for packages installed outside Homebrew — from a .dmg or another package manager — which show as uninstalled. It runs brew install --adopt <pkg> to register the existing install, after which brew upgrade covers it.
• Visual Studio Code: .code-workspace entries opened from Search Recent Projects failed on Windows, opening an empty untitled editor instead of the workspace — the open action passed a file:// URI, but the VS Code CLI treats positional arguments as paths.
• DuckDuckGo Email: generating an alias was failing with "⚠️ Unknown error" for all users. Bot protection on quack.duckduckgo.com rejects requests without a browser-like User-Agent, returning a 403 with an empty body that then broke response parsing. The header is now sent and the body parsed safely so real errors surface.
• Dia: a Close Tab action in both Search Tabs and Search Dia, removing items from the list optimistically so tabs can be closed in rapid succession.
• Is It Alive?: OutageDeck joins the provider adapters, so an outagedeck.com/providers/{slug} URL renders normalised vendor-published status, service details, and active incidents. Failed requests return the extension's visible error state rather than showing as healthy. The contributor maintains OutageDeck and disclosed that in the PR.
• Background refresh across eleven extensions — Audio Device, Coffee, Desktop Renamer, Everhour, Laravel Herd, Moodist, Music, Shutdown Timer, Sonos, Tailscale, and WIP — now runs once per minute, cutting polling in the audio, status, timer, and media commands that were refreshing more often.

Worth a Look

Swinsian Player — by @deathrashed

Controls the Swinsian music player and browses its local library. Now Playing carries artwork, metadata, playback controls, ratings, and queue and playlist actions, with a menu bar command covering playback, volume, modes, and library search. Quick Search finds tracks and Browse Library covers artists, albums, genres, and years. Playback goes through AppleScript while library browsing reads Swinsian's SQLite database directly.

MenuCloak — by @dans-huang

A companion for MenuCloak, an open-source native macOS app that turns unused application-menu space into a persistent focus surface. Five commands set the focus text, toggle it on or off, and open settings, communicating only through its local menucloak:// URL scheme.

Don't Break the Chain — by @ramysami

A mini calendar in the menu bar for crossing off every day you show up, following the don't break the chain method. The author built it because they were keeping the chain on paper and wanted something portable.

Cover Art Search — by @louaymd

Searches IMDb for movie, TV, anime, and game cover art, then copies it or sends it straight to Capacities.

Commit Sounds — by @wicolian

Plays a custom sound after a local Git commit whose origin remote matches a selected GitHub user or organisation. macOS and Windows.

Mouse Cursor Toggle — by @Dhaiwat10

Run Toggle Mouse Cursor once to hide the macOS cursor and again to show it. It stays hidden while you use other apps.

N-Term Grade Calculator — by @mawibo

Generates a live points-to-grade table for a chosen N-term, or an N-term-to-grade table for a fixed score, using the official CvTE N-term formula — the mechanism behind Dutch national exam grading.

Updates:

• Premier League: Matches, Table, Clubs, and Squad were still showing 2025/26 now that 2026/27 has started, because the upstream season config tends to catch up a few weeks into a season. From July onward the extension reads the season off the furthest-future fixture when the config hasn't published it yet, and defers to the config once it does.
• Music: a Search Apple Music command covering the catalogue for songs and albums, with album tracklists, Open in Music, and an Add to Library action that first checks whether the item is already there. Sign-in goes through Raycast's OAuth proxy.

Wrappers for Other Services

Companies House — by @aicayzer

Companies House is the UK's registrar of companies, and its public register — company details, officers, ownership, filings, charges, insolvency, and disqualified directors — is now searchable from Raycast. Search Companies finds a company by name or number and Search Officers follows a director's appointments across every company, with profiles, filing history, charges, and persons with significant control as drill-downs. AI tools expose the same data to Raycast AI, and each user brings their own free Public Data API key.

Teamwork — by @workeffortwaste

Built for teams on Teamwork.com, the project-management platform with built-in time tracking. Search the tasks assigned to you, start timers on them, and watch a running timer from the macOS menu bar.

PwPush — by @Mouxy

PwPush — Password Pusher — creates one-off links that carry a secret and then expire, by time or by view count, so a credential doesn't sit in a chat log forever. The extension creates text, URL, QR code, and file pushes with expiration, passphrase, and workspace options, and works against the public service or a self-hosted instance.

Fibery Quick Capture — by @janjezek

Creating a task in Fibery, the no-code work-management platform that lets teams model their own entities and workflows, no longer means opening the workspace. The command discovers active databases and their fields, supports optional fields such as due date and owner, and remembers the last selected database.

Logbook — by @Rushi0508

A client for Logbook, a daily log and task app. Add Task is a no-view command taking the task text as an argument, so capture happens from the root search without a window ever opening. Search Tasks browses and filters by Pending, Completed, or All, marks tasks complete, deletes with confirmation, and offers to create a task when nothing matches.

DigiKey — by @xmok

DigiKey is a globally authorised distributor of electronic components and automation products; the extension searches for a product and returns its details. Note that its API requires filling in a form justifying your use case before access is granted.

Updates:

• Notion: an Add Note command for quick daily note-taking without searching for a page first. A note is appended to a page titled with the current date, nested inside a notes page, both created on demand. It takes a launch argument, so a note can be written straight from the root search or a Quicklink, and preferences cover the page name, date format, and whether notes are bulleted, to-do, or plain.
• Deepcast: hyperlinks survive translation. Deepcast sent plain text to DeepL, so copied hyperlinks were dropped; it now reuses clipboard HTML when it matches the text being translated, sends it as markup, and copies the result as rich HTML with a plain-text fallback.
• MOCO: every request was failing. All four API clients for MOCO — the project-management and time-tracking tool for agencies — built their base URL with a single slash after the protocol, which Axios rejects before sending anything.

From Raycast

Raycast 2.0 is out of beta (August 21). v2 replaces v1 with a guided in-app update: existing v2 beta data is unchanged, v1 data can be imported during the update, and some permissions may need re-authorizing. Dictation and AI Chat, free while the beta ran, are now part of Raycast Pro — signing in gives a 7-day trial, no credit card required. 2.0 also adds a Clear Chat action, mentioning AI extensions in the Ask User Question tool, and loopback OAuth redirects for MCP providers such as Atlassian, with faster Screen Awareness screenshots and PDF OCR, and window centring that respects Stage Manager.

Version 0.71 (August 19), the last beta build before 2.0, brought Screen Awareness into AI Chat and Quick AI along with a Send Focused Window to AI command, added modifier chord hotkeys (left ⌘ + right ⌘, for instance), and let dictation import vocabulary from other apps. Text fields now expand macOS Text Replacements, filesystem indexing uses less CPU, and fixes covered tool permission prompts, chats stuck busy, Focus settings, and Hyper Key remapping.

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