Raycast alternatives for Mac
Raycast — Control your tools with a few keystrokes — is installed 8,210 times a month through Homebrew. These are hand-picked alternatives that occupy the same slot, ordered by how comparable their user base is.
Run
brew install --cask raycast to install Raycast itself.- Alfreduniversal · 3.6× smaller user base
- Keyboard Maestrouniversal · 53.3× smaller user base
- Pasteuniversal · 90.2× smaller user base
- BetterTouchTooluniversal · 11.1× smaller user base
- Karabiner Elementsuniversal
- Mosuniversal · 3.0× smaller user base
- Amethystuniversal · 13.0× smaller user base
- Hazeluniversal · 60.4× smaller user base
Full comparison
| Raycast | Alfred | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | GUI app | GUI app |
| Category | Productivity | Productivity |
| Open source | Not declared | Not declared |
| Licence | Not declared | Not declared |
| Apple silicon | Apple silicon only | Universal |
| Latest version | 2.9.0.0 | 5.8.1,2349 |
| Dependencies | 0 | 0 |
| Installs (30 days) | 8,210 | 2,307 |
| Install command | brew install --cask raycast | brew install --cask alfred |
How we picked these
The list comes from a hand-maintained set of same-purpose apps, not from keyword matching. Alternatives are removed automatically when Homebrew no longer carries them. Ordering reflects 30-day install volume, not paid placement. Data updated 2026-10-26.