Switch from Raycast
Bring your setup. Keep your keys.
About ten minutes: take over ⌘Space, import your snippets and quicklinks, and install the plugins for the commands you use.
Five steps
Moving over.
- 1
Install Stackbar
Run
brew install --cask navbytes/tap/stackbar, or use the download page. Applications, Calculator and File Search come installed. - 2
Free up ⌘Space
In Raycast, open Settings › General and change or clear the Raycast hotkey. Then in Stackbar's Welcome window (or Settings › General) choose Use ⌘Space. If Spotlight still holds it, Turn Off Spotlight's Shortcut… takes you to the switch.
- 3
Export from Raycast
In Raycast, run Export Snippets and Export Quicklinks. Each saves a JSON file.
- 4
Import into Stackbar
Install Snippets and Quicklinks from the Store, then Settings › General › Coming from Raycast › Snippets… and Quicklinks… (or run Import Snippets in the palette). The template syntax is the same:
{clipboard},{selection},{date},{argument}and{cursor}keep working. - 5
Bring your muscle memory
Settings › Commands gives any command an alias or a hotkey, like the ones you set in Raycast, including arrows and punctuation. Using a Hyper key? Keep it in Karabiner-Elements: Stackbar hotkeys take all four modifiers (how). ⌘K, ⌘Return and ⌘1–9 work as you expect in the palette. Permissions lists what macOS will ask for.
What you used
Where it lives now.
Raycast's built-in commands, and the extensions people install most, with the Stackbar plugin for each.
| In Raycast | In Stackbar | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Search apps and System Settings | Applications | Installed |
| File Search | File Search | Installed |
| Calculator, currency, time zones | Calculator | Installed |
| Clipboard History | Clipboard History | |
| Snippets | Snippets | Paste by name, or type a keyword like ;sig in any app |
| Quicklinks | Quicklinks | Plus a library of ready-made searches |
| Window Management | Windows | |
| System commands (lock, sleep, empty Trash) | System Commands | |
| Search Emoji & Symbols | Emoji | |
| My Schedule, join meetings | Up Next | |
| Translate | Translate | |
| Switch apps and windows | App Switcher | |
| GitHub, Linear and Jira extensions | PR Cockpit, Linear, Jira | |
| Pomodoro and Caffeinate extensions | Pomodoro, Stay Awake | |
| Raycast AI | Agents and MCP | Your own agent uses every plugin; an Ask AI plugin with your own key is planned |
| Writing an extension | Your first plugin | One Swift file instead of a TypeScript project |
Missing something?
Ask for it in the plugin store's issues, or write it yourself in one Swift file, with your agent's help.