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Raycast alternatives

18 other productivity tools listed on this site share a category with Raycast. They are ordered by how many categories they share and then by upvotes here — that is an ordering, not a verdict. We have not tested any of them, and there is no score on this page.

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Raycast alternatives at a glance

ToolPricingOpen sourceUpvotes here
CursorFreemiumNo30
SpellbookContact for pricingNo43
Hugging FaceFreemiumNo42
BrowserbaseFreemiumNo41
You.comFreemiumNo41
v0FreemiumNo40
TabnineFreemiumNo40
HarveyContact for pricingNo40
Fireflies.aiFreemiumNo39
PerplexityFreemiumNo39
LangChainFreemiumYes38
LexFreemiumNo37
ClaudeFreemiumNo35
GrammarlyFreemiumNo35
FigmaFreemiumNo35
TavilyFreemiumNo35
ClineFreeYes33
LlamaIndexFreemiumYes33

Cursor

AI coding agent built into a familiar editor

Cursor is a code editor built on VS Code that puts an AI agent at the centre of the workflow. It indexes your repository so completions, chat and multi-file edits stay grounded in your actual code, and it can run longer…

Freemium · Shares 3 categories with Raycast

Spellbook

AI contract drafting and review inside Word

Spellbook works as a Microsoft Word add-in, suggesting clause language, flagging unusual or missing terms, and reviewing a contract against a firm's playbook without leaving the document.

Contact for pricing · Shares 2 categories with Raycast

Hugging Face

The hub for open models, datasets and demos

Hugging Face hosts hundreds of thousands of open model checkpoints, datasets and interactive Spaces demos, along with the libraries most of the ecosystem builds on.

Freemium · Shares 2 categories with Raycast

Browserbase

Headless browser infrastructure for web agents

Browserbase runs managed headless browsers so AI agents and scrapers can load real pages, handle sessions and interact with sites without a team maintaining browser fleets.

Freemium · Shares 2 categories with Raycast

You.com

AI search and research APIs for developers

You.com started as a consumer AI search engine and now focuses on selling web search, news and research APIs that give agents current, citable data.

Freemium · Shares 2 categories with Raycast

v0

Generate React UI and full-stack apps from prompts

v0 is Vercel's AI builder for web interfaces. Describe a screen or paste a design and it produces React and Tailwind components you can refine conversationally, then push to a repository or deploy to Vercel.

Freemium · Shares 2 categories with Raycast

Tabnine

Private AI code assistant for regulated teams

Tabnine provides code completion, chat and agentic assistance with an emphasis on privacy and provenance. It can run on-premises or in a private cloud, be trained on a team's own repositories, and restrict suggestions to…

Freemium · Shares 2 categories with Raycast

Harvey

Domain-specific AI for legal and professional services

Harvey builds AI workflows for law firms and in-house legal teams, covering contract analysis, due diligence, research and drafting against a firm's own document set.

Contact for pricing · Shares 2 categories with Raycast

Fireflies.ai

Meeting recorder that pushes notes into your CRM

Fireflies.ai records and transcribes calls across the major conferencing platforms, generates summaries and action items, and syncs the results into CRMs and project tools so meetings turn into updated records.

Freemium · Shares 2 categories with Raycast

Perplexity

Answer engine that cites its sources

Perplexity answers questions by searching the web and writing a synthesised response with inline citations you can check, rather than a list of links.

Freemium · Shares 2 categories with Raycast

LangChain

Framework and platform for building LLM agents

LangChain provides open-source libraries for composing language model calls, tools, retrieval and agent loops, in Python and TypeScript.

Freemium · Open source · Shares 2 categories with Raycast

Lex

Word processor with AI feedback for serious writers

Lex is a clean document editor aimed at people who write prose rather than marketing copy. It offers inline drafting help, but its distinctive feature is structured feedback: you can ask for a critique of an argument, cl…

Freemium · Shares 2 categories with Raycast

Claude

Anthropic's assistant for writing, analysis and code

Claude is Anthropic's AI assistant, available on the web, desktop, mobile and through an API. It handles long documents, structured analysis, writing and software development, and can use tools, browse connected data sou…

Freemium · Shares 2 categories with Raycast

Grammarly

Writing assistance that follows you across apps

Grammarly checks grammar, spelling, clarity and tone as you write in the browser, desktop apps, email clients and mobile keyboards.

Freemium · Shares 2 categories with Raycast

Figma

Collaborative canvas for interface design and prototyping

Figma is a browser-based design tool where interface design, prototyping, design systems and developer handoff happen in one shared file.

Freemium · Shares 2 categories with Raycast

Tavily

Real-time web search API for RAG and agents

Tavily provides a search and content extraction API tuned for language models: results come back cleaned and summarised rather than as raw HTML, which reduces token cost in RAG pipelines.

Freemium · Shares 2 categories with Raycast

Cline

Open-source coding agent for VS Code and the terminal

Cline is an open-source AI coding agent that runs inside VS Code and the terminal. It separates planning from execution so you approve a plan before it edits files or runs commands, and it supports MCP servers plus your…

Free · Open source · Shares 2 categories with Raycast

LlamaIndex

Connect LLMs to your documents and data

LlamaIndex is a framework for retrieval-augmented generation and document workflows, handling ingestion, chunking, indexing and querying over private data.

Freemium · Open source · Shares 2 categories with Raycast

How to choose a Raycast alternative

This site holds four things about each of these products that are worth comparing before you open any of them, and none of them is an opinion. The pricing model above is the one recorded on the listing — a product marked Contact for pricing will cost you a sales call before it costs you anything else. The open-source column decides whether leaving later is a migration or an export. The shared-category count is how close the overlap with Raycast actually is: a tool sharing three categories is doing roughly the same job, one sharing a single category may only touch the same part of it. Upvotes are votes cast here by people with accounts, and they say what this site’s readers picked, not what is best for you.

What we do not hold is a test. Nobody here has run these products side by side, so the last step is yours: open two of them and give each one the job you actually have.

Raycast alternatives FAQ

What can I use instead of Raycast?
18 other productivity tools listed here share a category with Raycast: Cursor, Spellbook, Hugging Face, Browserbase, You.com, v0, Tabnine, Harvey, Fireflies.ai, Perplexity, LangChain, Lex, Claude, Grammarly, Figma, Tavily, Cline and LlamaIndex.
Are any Raycast alternatives free?
Cline record a free model; Cursor, Hugging Face, Browserbase, You.com, v0, Tabnine, Fireflies.ai, Perplexity, LangChain, Lex, Claude, Grammarly, Figma, Tavily and LlamaIndex record a freemium one — a free tier with paid plans above it. Those are the models on their listings here, not a check of their current price lists.
Are any Raycast alternatives open source?
LangChain, Cline and LlamaIndex are listed as open source.
How was this list of Raycast alternatives put together?
By query, not by hand. It is every published listing on this site that shares at least one category with Raycast, ordered by how many categories it shares and then by upvotes here. It is not a ranking against Raycast — we have not tested any of these products, and nothing on this page is a score.