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September 6, 2026

This Week in Raycast — August 31 – September 6, 2026

A developer-heavy week: a port reaper, a Neovim manager, a MySQL client, a just runner, and on-demand CI runners all landed, alongside a batch of service wrappers spanning calendars, recipes, and case law.

Productivity

Portreaper — by @fanhefeng

Finds orphaned dev-server processes still squatting on a port after you killed the terminal that launched them, and lets you reap them from Raycast. It doesn't just list listeners — it decides which ones are reparented vite/node/cargo run zombies so you act on a verdict rather than guessing which PID to kill.

Neovim — by @RG-IL

Manage Neovim sessions, plugins, and keymaps from Raycast: list and reorder persistence.nvim sessions, open Finder files or folders in nvim, spin up a fresh instance in your terminal of choice, and browse installed plugins read from lazy-lock.json.

MySQL Client — by @Im-Tae

A keyboard-first client for MySQL, MariaDB, and Aurora MySQL. Run queries and copy results as JSON or CSV, drill through databases → tables → columns, view CREATE TABLE statements, and manage multiple connection profiles.

just — by @alastairsounds

Run just recipes from Raycast. Browse recipes across configured justfile directories with their docs and params visible, run them inline to see output, or use the headless Run Recipe command that fires a recipe silently and reports via HUD.

Aqua Registry Search — by @TyceHerrman

Searches the live Aqua registry for CLI tools and copies the exact command that adds a package to your aqua.yaml. Matches on identifiers, descriptions, repositories, paths, and binaries.

RunPool — by @aicayzer

Manages pools of self-hosted GitHub Actions runners on a Mac. The pools are on-demand — they wake within about a minute of a job queueing and stand down once idle — so the machine isn't carrying idle runner processes all day. Drives the MIT-licensed runpool CLI.

Shortcut Library — by @rhrabun

A personal, searchable cheat sheet for the custom keyboard shortcuts you configure across your apps — Karabiner layers, editors, terminals, window managers. Grouped fuzzy search with category/tag filtering and full add/edit/duplicate/delete. Works on macOS and Windows.

Capture — Quick Notes — by @FurkanSimsir

Connects Raycast to Capture, a quick-note app for Apple platforms. It calls the capture-cli helper bundled inside the app, so there's no API key and no setup — the CLI path preference is prefilled.

AI to PDF — by @guuskaashoek

Converts Adobe Illustrator .ai files to print-ready PDF, with the bleed read from the file, set by hand, or switched off. It drives Illustrator's own Save as PDF over Apple events rather than parsing the file, so presets, color management, fonts, and transparency behave exactly as they do in the export dialog.

Updates to existing productivity extensions:

  • BetterTouchTool: reworked onto the official typed client (local socket with HTTP fallback), with full action-catalog browsing, generated parameter forms, all-trigger browsing, variables, and Clipboard Manager access.
  • Homebrew: the Show Outdated command is now Show Upgrades — review available upgrades and pick which formulae to include before running.
  • GitHub: native pagination added to lists.
  • Portless: the portless executable path is now a preference (for non-global installs), and you can swap Copy URL and Open in Browser between primary and secondary actions.
  • Language Tool: new Check Selected Text command.
  • Google Cloud CLI: fixes the empty project dropdown on accounts with many projects.
  • LastPass Credentials Search: keeps the master password out of the shell and the logs.

Worth a Look

AndroMeld — by @heruoxin

Search the apps installed on a connected Android device and open them on your Mac. Requires AndroMeld for Mac, which publishes the app catalog to a local JSON file the extension reads — no network access, no credentials.

BOOX Companion — by @metrovoc

A local-network extension for BOOX e-ink devices running BOOXDrop. Discover devices, browse the library, handwritten notes, and storage, upload/download and organize files, and view or capture the device screen through a bundled BOOX Lens helper.

PushToDisplay — by @sourceshipper

Send real-time updates to display boards — a TV wall, dashboard, or any screen running the PushToDisplay app. Compose a styled update with board and panel pickers and per-block text sizing, or use Quick Send to fire a message off with one keystroke.

KuandoHUB — by @lyager

Control a Kuando Busylight presence light through the local kuandoHUB HTTP API with three one-shot commands: Set Busy (red), Set Available (green), and Turn Off Light.

Updates to existing extensions:

  • Cobalt: added Windows support.
  • Inoh: new Search Word from Screenshot command — drag a box around a word anywhere on screen (video captions, PDFs, ebooks) to look it up, using on-device OCR.
  • Meme Generator: live preview while you type.
  • Spotify Player: next and previous actions now work for podcast episodes.

Wrappers for Other Services

Sunsama — by @artistro08

Sunsama is a daily planner that pulls tasks in from tools like Jira, Linear, Asana, Trello, and Notion; this extension adds and completes tasks from Raycast, signing in once through the browser with OAuth.

OneCal Unified Calendar — by @keito4

A Raycast view for OneCal, the calendar-syncing service that merges multiple Google, Outlook, and iCloud calendars. It reproduces OneCal's Unified Calendar — all events from all synced calendars grouped by day, with clone events hidden by default.

Screens — by @bendrucker

Built for people who use Screens 5 by Edovia, the VNC/RDP/SSH client for macOS. Lists your connections grouped by type and ordered by how often you use them, and imports connections from a .screens archive.

CourtListener Search — by @cro64

Connects Raycast to CourtListener, Free Law Project's open database of US court opinions. A single Search Case Law command lets you search, read enough to confirm a case, then open, save, or copy its citation without a browser.

Mealie — by @joschkarick

A client for Mealie, the self-hosted recipe manager and meal planner, bringing your recipe collection into Raycast.

Arandu — by @luizvi

Arandu is a personal-assistant SaaS (currently in controlled access); the extension lets users manage their day from Raycast — today's events, tasks, reminders, and habits with inline completion, plus quick-capture forms for tasks and reminders.

Update:

  • Infisical: added folder support, and copied secret values are now kept out of Clipboard History.

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