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May 10, 2026

This Week in Raycast — May 4 – May 10, 2026

A productivity-heavy week: seven new utilities aimed squarely at faster workflows, plus Windows support for Tabby and a handful of command fixes.

Productivity

App Updates — by @gfazioli

Check for available updates of installed macOS apps by scanning three sources at once: Sparkle appcasts (via each app's SUFeedURL), Homebrew Casks (brew outdated --cask), and the Mac App Store (mas outdated). Includes a menu-bar count badge that refreshes hourly, a Brew Maintenance command that runs update/upgrade/doctor/cleanup on a schedule, and a Doctor Advice command that uses Raycast AI to explain brew doctor warnings. Scans both /Applications and ~/Applications.

Wrap Unwrap — by @chrismessina

Two commands for Markdown-aware text reflow. Wrap Text wraps selected (or clipboard) text at a configurable column width, with the line budget accounting for blockquote (>) and list-item prefixes so wrapped output stays within the chosen column. Unwrap Text reflows wrapped text into continuous paragraphs while preserving headings, fenced and indented code, blockquotes, lists, pipe tables, and reference link definitions; soft-hyphen stripping is optional. Exposes a cross-extension provider so other extensions can call wrap/unwrap via launchContext.

Save Clipboard — by @untitledpng

A single-purpose command for saving files or screenshots from the clipboard to a chosen folder on disk.

DefinitelyTyped — by @tcelestino

Search the npm registry for @types/* packages and copy npm install -D @types/<package> to the clipboard with one shortcut. Pin frequently-used packages as favourites (persisted via local storage) and jump straight to the package page on npmjs.com or its source on GitHub. Cross-platform.

Webhook Sender — by @binaryblitz10

Send GET/POST/PUT/PATCH/DELETE webhooks with either a key-value form (per-field type selector so true the boolean and "true" the string don't get confused) or raw JSON with validation. Every send is auto-saved to a 50-entry history; press Cmd+↵ on a history item to open the form pre-filled and resend. Saved presets, colour-coded status, pretty-printed JSON, and response timing.

FlashSpace — by @krmbzds

A Raycast control surface for FlashSpace, an open-source virtual-workspace manager for macOS. Create, delete, and activate workspaces, assign running apps (or "all visible apps") to a workspace, toggle floating apps, focus windows by direction, and view connected displays — sixteen commands in total covering workspaces, profiles, and per-app behaviour.

Finicky Rule Manager — by @NormCopeland

Manage Finicky rules from Raycast without hand-editing the config file. Set the default browser, create rules from your currently-open browser tabs (via Raycast Browser companion), and add/remove/edit existing rules. Finicky is a macOS tool that routes URLs to specific browsers based on user-defined rules — useful for keeping work links in one browser and personal links in another.

Updates to existing productivity extensions:

  • Tabby: full Windows support — config and executable paths picked up from %APPDATA%/%LOCALAPPDATA% and Program Files/Local\Programs, with preferences to override.
  • KEF Control: Set Source and Set Volume commands have been fixed.
  • Raindrop.io: fixes "Unsupported App: Arc" by adding a name-based fallback when getFrontmostApplication() returns an unexpected bundle ID for Arc.
  • Visual Studio Code – Recent Projects: falls back to storage.json when VS Code Insiders stops writing the recent-folders key into state.vscdb. Stable VS Code is unaffected.
  • Obsidian: vault discovery respects per-platform paths — APPDATA on Windows, XDG_CONFIG_HOME on Linux.
  • Immich: customisable Windows download folder, with registry-based detection as the fallback default.
  • Ente Auth: Import Secrets parser handles export URLs containing bare &issuer parameters and +-separated secrets that previously caused the importer to silently return zero entries.
  • Open With App: reads selection from Bloom in addition to Finder, behind a pluggable FileManagerProvider interface so other file managers can be added with a single class.
  • Slack: accent-insensitive name search in Open Channel and Send Message — typing Angeles now matches Ángeles (Unicode NFD + diacritic stripping).
  • Plexamp: Cmd+Enter on an album in the artist view starts playback immediately, without first drilling into the track list.
  • cmux: prepends /usr/local/bin to the extension's PATH so symlinked cmux binaries are found — Raycast doesn't inherit the user's shell PATH.
  • PM2: switched to PM2's programmatic API and bumped the dependency to PM2 7.0.
  • Parcel: ambiguous dot-separated dates (e.g. 06.07.2025) now respect the system locale's month/day order via Intl.DateTimeFormat, instead of always assuming US format.

Worth a Look

Harmonic — by @chandlervdw

A music-theory reference inside Raycast. Look up notes by name (A flat, C#, Bb) to see frequencies and MIDI numbers across octaves 0–8, with notable labels (Middle C, Concert A); search chords in lead-sheet notation (Cmaj7, Dm7b5, F#7#11) across 40+ chord types organised by family (Triad, Seventh, Extended, Altered, Jazz, Lydian, Modal); and play configurable tones (Warm, Pure Sine, Bright, Soft Decay) for 1s/2s/5s/infinite — pitches stack, and Cmd+Shift+S stops everything.

Bhagavad Gita Quotes — by @Swayyum

Read and search quotes from the Bhagavad Gita.

Updates to existing extensions:

  • X/Twitter Video Downloader: v2.0.0 release adds a Download Video from Clipboard no-view command, an inline URL argument on Download Video, multi-video tweet support, and preferences for default download folder and filename templates ({username}, {tweetId}, {index}, {date}).
  • Kaomoji Search: switched to native copy/paste actions, preserving recents and fixing a Vicinae issue where the window didn't close on copy/paste.

Wrappers for Other Services

Keeply — by @RolfKoenders

A Raycast frontend for Keeply, a personal bookmark manager. Browse the library by folder or tag, then save new URLs from Raycast with optional title/description/note, folder assignment, and inline tag creation. Per-bookmark actions cover open, copy as Markdown link, edit, archive, and delete.

IONOS Sync — by @wdeu

Built for web developers in the DACH region (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) who host on IONOS, the largest web-hosting provider in the region. Push and pull projects via rsync over SSH from Raycast, with a dry-run preview before every sync, streaming line-by-line output, per-project excludes, and a safety lock that disables --delete on root-level (~/) remotes to prevent accidental wipes.

Lattice Scholar — by @frank-miao

Connects Raycast to Lattice Scholar, a macOS literature/reference manager. Talks to the app's local 127.0.0.1 API to search and manage your library directly from Raycast.

Userplane — by @wizenheimer

Userplane is a B2B tool that lets support teams request screen recordings from end users — capturing logs, network activity, and session state so an agent can reproduce an issue without back-and-forth. The extension brings the request flow into Raycast for support engineers who live in their inbox.

CoCart Docs — by @seb86

Search the API documentation for CoCart, the headless-WooCommerce REST API. Copy doc URLs to the clipboard or open them in the browser.


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