Raycast: AI, Notes and more 4+

As a Raycast user on macOS, I was eager to see its transition to iOS. The app brings over essential features like AI Chat, Notes, Quicklinks, and Snippets, all of which sync across devices—a boon for enhancing productivity on the go. The integration of multiple AI models and the ability to capture ideas swiftly is excellent. Plus, with Whisper voice integration, it already understands almost at the level of ChatGPT (Siri, are you listening!!?), which is pretty amazing.

However, I noticed that some functionalities are still limited. Given the platform’s constraints (sigh), this is understandable, but I hope to see features expanded in future updates. I would love for this app to essentially take the place of Finder in iOS, which I use just like a launcher, adding AI and other more in-depth integration like Raycast does with the Mac. For example, as a bridge until more shortcuts can be created directly in Raycast, the ability to trigger iOS shortcuts directly from the Raycast bar would be very useful. Plus, I heard that they are working on a keyboard as part of this. If this is as good as Raycast for Mac OS, sign me up!

I was skeptical that Raycast on iOS would provide much benefit given Apple’s constraints, but I’m a big fan of the app after just a few usages. Being able to use the standard “Share” button across applications and have that content usable in my AI commands means I can finally do things like read an article and have it output into a format for Notion. The main missing piece to me is having all AI command features available, ex. Normally my article todo takes the content and creates a new page in a specific database for me. On mobile I need to do that part myself.

I’ve used Raycast on my Macs for years. It’s rare that I write a review for something, but it’s one of the few apps that’s hard for me to live without because of the time it saves me and the ability to control my computer from a Spotlight search bar. I’ve been waiting for the iOS version for ages, and the fact that it skipped beta (that I’m aware of) is amazing. Because of iOS limitations, there’s obviously some things the mobile version can’t do, but I’m impressed with the UI nonetheless. It’s frictionless to ask AI a question, and the voice to text is remarkably accurate. With Pro, a lot of your settings and notes sync over as well. A few things I’d like to request in the future:

- Mobile web page extension so I can ask it to summarize web pages like I can on Mac
- Ability to create custom commands from mobile (I may have missed this in the settings)
- Extensions store for mobile, even if there are limitations