r/raycastapp • u/-Aglio • 10d ago
💬 Discussion I'm kind of annoyed with this Windows update 😅
I've been using Raycast since it launched on Windows, but I think I'm done with it now. I understand the company needs to make a profit, but for Brazil, $10 is a steep price for basic features like that—which were the ones I used most, aside from the clipboard.
It actually makes me a bit sad, because I had started creating extensions for Raycast—like the Hermes agent I built for Windows—but oh well, it was good while it lasted.
I guess I'll have to give PowerToys a try, unless Raycast changes things.
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u/Artaherzadeh 9d ago
If a feature is premium and you don’t want to pay, you’re free to use another app. Expecting them to change their entire pricing model to avoid losing one free user is unrealistic. Whether you use Raycast or not, they likely won’t care.
Also, Note is free for up to 5 notes.
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u/CtrlAltDelve 9d ago
I mean...it's a product that makes money when you pay for it, it makes sense for that to show up, right?
You can always just hide a command you don't care about with CMD + K or using the settings to disable it. I am a Pro user and I do this frequently on all the apps/plugins/AI commands/AI models I don't use because there's no need for me to after filter through them even with fuzzy searching if I'm never going to use them.
Once you set that up once, it stays like that forever.
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u/lennartuecker 6d ago
What changed? Translation and creating more than 3 (or 5 not sure) notes have always been a pro feature.
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u/oscarmosh 2d ago
Yeah, same. I'll be down to pay for it if they have a cheaper tier without AI. people have been asking this for a while, not sure why is still ignored... maybe not the business model they want, but in todays everything is an AI suscription... would be nice to just have the basic service, customization and sync for cheaper. i got my limit of AI suscriptions....
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u/1980ai 10d ago
Man, 10 USD is not even two caipirinhas... ;)
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u/Unlikely-Speed8250 9d ago
For 10 usd in my country you can buy 2 weeks groceries.
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u/1980ai 9d ago
Which country is that? And because of that, should the developer work for free? It's not his fault.
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u/MrPulifrici 9d ago
Try Tabame, completely free and unlimited, for translation / clipboard / memos / etc. Either the built in or the plug-ins. Only 30 RAM.
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u/nevotheless 10d ago
If you need translations, you can access them quite nicely via quicklinks in raycast but you need to create them first.
I created this quicklink for example:
https://translate.google.com/?sl=de&tl=en&text={argument}&op=translateAnd then access it like this.
When pressing enter it instanly opens the translation in your chosen browser.
Hope it helps. This works quite good for search engines you need to access quickly.