Raycast User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience53.2% of reviews
Neutral13.5% of reviews
Negative experience33.3% of reviews

~ Based on 111 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Raycast Safe?

Raycast: AI, Notes and more appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Raycast is 88/100.

This assessment is based on 234 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.5/5.

Safety Analysis

86.8% of ratings point to a safe experience
2.1% of ratings suggest some concerns
11.1% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 234 App Store ratings for Raycast.

Is Raycast Legit?

Raycast: AI, Notes and more appears legitimate, with a few gaps. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Raycast is 60/100.

Based on 60 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Sem clipboard?

Não tem a função que mais utilizo e que mais tinha interesse no mobile, o Clipboard.

Missing clipboard feature

Great part of desktop app not available

Raycast vs Alfred

i’ve been using ALFRED for 10 years or so and it’s pretty awesome and it’s doing more and more for me every day.

But the new truth is Raycast does so many things that my ALFRED cannot do and much of it is available on the iOS devices, which is absolutely a game changer thank you so much!

Dictation broken

Each time I click the dictate button from the custom keyboard, it keeps sending me back to the actual application instead of leaving me in the keyboard.

Also, it doesn't handle the music properly. The music stops and doesn't restart automatically when I stop dictating.

The Swiss Army knife for the MCPH and for ADHD people like me

Raycast, at first glance, may seem like a tech enthusiast's tinkerer's box. But underneath, if you really dig deep, you'll find that you have a Swiss Army knife to make something that will make your life a lot easier on what is arguably the most important computing device that you can own: your phone.

Particular attention to MCP, voice dictation, and the availability of all AI LLMs, or at least most of them, at your fingertips, both on the lock screen, the home screen, the widget screen, and on the keyboard in virtually any application.

By connecting your finances, your marketing, your sales CRM, your personal to‑do list, or any other application that might have an MCP server connection available, you can truly, from one hand on your phone from anywhere in the world, quickly summarize, get updates, and even create a new contact from the Raycast app easily, and at the same time synchronize with your iPad and your MacBook. I'm not aware of any other application that can do that right now. So kudos to the Raycast team. Worth every penny.
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Untapped Potential

I would really like to love this app since it has so much potential. So far it is very much limited to Snippets, quick links and and too much AI. Some updates to the Keyboard could make this really useful. Simple thinks like an Emoji picker, clipboard history the ability to togle the Raycast calculator from within the keyboard. Very much hope these updates will come eventually
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German support

Nice app.. plz add german

Meh

What use ? Just expensive AI tokens, nothing like its « Mac »brother..

Amazing

Thank you for this app, it is lovely

The right idea

fantastic app on both Mac and iPhone. I do wish they'd cleaned up rough edges like the AI (paid) failing all the time and the quick ai not following instructions or using web search automatically. otherwise, and perhaps even more so, a great Search replacement and central command hub for Mac. I see the iPhone app taking shape and love the keyboard
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Works great

Ai needs improvement I just wish I could access this system wide like on macOS.

Nevertheless great app
10/10 highly recommended

No locally hosted AI options as of April 2026

I’m an avid user of the MacOS Raycast app and had high hopes for the iOS app. I self-host my own LLMs and am able to access them through the MacOS Raycast app, but there’s no such option in iOS. This makes the iOS app basically useless for me which is a huge bummer.

If Raycast ever implements Ollama support in their iOS app, I’ll come back and revise this review.
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It doesn’t work

Always getting the error ‘cannot open the link’ when I try to login with any of the methods.

Unusable

Chats are garbled and unreadable on iOS 18.

Pro + Advanced AI totally worth it

I love the fact that I can have access to the latest models literally the day they become available. No need to have separate subscriptions to the top AI vendors.

Also, being able to start an AI chat on iOS, and then pick it up on macOS (and vice versa) is awesome.

In addition, the keyboard and iOS Shortcuts are a very powerful set of tools.
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Buggy and sloppy

Great Mac app, super rough and buggy iOS app.

Nothing likeit

And that’s a crutch. I love the MacOS version, tho its 100% a beta version app. Does a lot of stuff Spotlight doesn’t, but does almost nothing perfectly. I really, really want to love this app, it’s super ambitious but it’s soooo needed. Fills a void in MacOS/iOS left by unfulfilled Siri expectations. It’s just… where tf did the team go? It’s like development was halted a few months ago, right as it should have been ramping up. now the app feels janky and old and derelict. Man…
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App is crashing

App is crashing not able to open after download the app does not open and crashes please fix this issue

Raycast iOS Crashes Immediately on Launch – iOS 18.0.1

Raycast opens and instantly crashes back to home screen on iOS 18.0.1. Tried force restart, delete & reinstall, but still happens. App was working fine before. Please fix ASAP – love Raycast on Mac, really want the iOS version too!

iphone16 pm, 18.01

This isn’t the Raycast you know

This should be a differently named app because calling it Raycast is extremely deceiving for users of Raycast on Mac. This app is basically worthless if you are on the free plan and don’t want or use the AI junk. Mac version AI can be completely dialed, this is just all AI besides Quick Links, Raycast Notes, and Snippets — which won’t sync on the free plan.

There’s no extensions. It’s just a glorified AI front end deceptively named like the Mac app. I’m sure it has usefulness if you have a paid subscription.
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