extensions

Raycast is successful because it's an incredibly widely used and adopted integration layer. The official repo has thousands of plugins, pretty well maintained together, collectively, and there are thousands more out there. https://github.com/raycast/extensions/tree/main/extensions KDE krunner has plugins. But there is not afaik a big tent ownership system like Raycast. And krunner is only going to attract KDE users. Raycast is mainly mac, but also, there's Vicinae which runs on a lot more systems, and it can run >50% of the Raycast plugins without a sweat, is designed to be drop in compatible. It's also absurdly easy to write Raycast extensions. It uses web platform technologies that "just work", that don't have ornery toolchains and need lots of dev libraries installed. With KRunner you can probably use whatever library you want to do wh

FYI, Raycast users, the bitwarden-cli version used with the bundled bitwarden extension is 2026-03-01, not the compromised one (2026-04-01). https://github.com/raycast/extensions/blob/6765a533f40ad20cc...

Speaking of Alfred, there’s also a Raycast[0] extension for NetNewsWire allowing one to combine the two[1]. Disclaimer: I authored the extension but like most Raycast extensions, it’s open-source[2]. [0]: https://raycast.com [1]: https://raycast.com/xmok/netnewswire [2]: https://github.com/raycast/extensions/tree/main/extensions/n...

I'm also a Raycast user. It has an extension: https://github.com/raycast/extensions/tree/main/extensions/n...

One way of doing this that might save you some effort is writing a plugin for Raycast, but I have no idea whether this covers the use cases you have in mind. Seems doable: https://github.com/raycast/extensions/blob/main/extensions/o... (Not affiliated, I just have Raycast installed and use it sometimes)

I use Raycast which is a drop-in replacement for Mac spotlight along with the ChatGPT extension that lets you quickly search conversations / ask questions / etc once you provide it with your OpenAPI key. https://github.com/raycast/extensions/tree/99c7c7c4fa02afba9...

For what it's worth, there's already a free Raycast extension that lets you supply your own OpenAI key which lets you do this pretty easily. Wherever possible, I lean towards the BYOK (bring your own key approach). https://github.com/raycast/extensions/tree/99c7c7c4fa02afba9...

I agree for 99% of extensions their model is amazing. And I wouldn't expect me to come up with a better one any time soon. The problem is that I want to do more in my launcher. Two examples: - I wasn't happy with the official bitwarden extension, because going through the clipboard and copy/pasting individual items felt cumbersome. They also only supported one vault even though I asked about this years ago [0]! In raycast I wrote my own bitwarden extension that hooked into Hammerspoon and used the AX spoon to autofill credentials. That felt very hacky though so in my own launcher I am using the accessibility API directly through swift-rs. - I wanted to build my own keyboard centric matrix chat client into raycast. I got pretty far, but in the end I was just too limited by the available components. Also I discovered that once your extensio

I'm not sure about what data it sends home, a lot of stuff I use with Raycast tend to be done locally. also all extensions on the store are open sourced (https://github.com/raycast/extensions) so you could audit it yourself as well.