Window Management: Sequoia × Raycast Comparison

Window management is finally native to macOS, starting in macOS Sequoia. We went over all of the new features and compared them to what Raycast has had for a while. Here's why we believe our offering is much better!

[uniqueo-gh]

can you please add an option to move current app to the next/previous desktop?

[etiennelenhart]

I love Raycast's Window Management, easily my most used extension. Only thing I'm missing is gaps in custom Window Layouts. Please consider supporting this.

[rmasoni]

I found the default gap between windows so charming in Sequoia. Didn’t know Raycast also had that! I’ll try it out.

[WesBos]

Two features raycast is missing for me to make the jump:

1. I want to be able to increase/decrease a window by X% or Pixels. Half a window is sometimes not enough, ⅔ is too much. I want to hit a key and have it grow/shrink
2. The MacOS side-by-side is great because if you drag the little white pill in-between windows, it resizes both at the same time - imagine that but for full tiling!

[heavenmx]

Please please add an option to snap the windows with the mouse, that's the only thing I miss from other apps and the new native one

[MrBionik]

Nice comparaison. What is that "Hyper" key you pressed at 6:33? How to have that?

[Goodpsychiatry]

Great vid! Still use raycast for quick typing for windows management. Way easier for me than going to the mouse/trackad.

I've seen that you guys use Arc in a few videos. How do you like it? I've been considering moving away from Chromium-based (currently running Brave) because of the upcoming v3 changes, and maybe returning to Safari. Do you guys have any thoughts on this and plan to stay on Arc or switch?

Appreciate you all and the constant use of Raycast <3

[ololadeagboola]

That shortcut to get to keyboard shortcuts at 4:13 — I cannot find that direct command on my Raycast. How did you set it up?

[janesam]

How did you highlight the active window with a colourful border?

[MostachoIrregular]

Have you ever thought of having a one-time payment version of Raycast? I understand that AI, Cloud save and others imply recurring costs to the team. But I was sad when I found that the Window Management feature was also behind the subscription paywall.

I would gladly pay for the "full software" but I don't want another subscription .

[onafanewlevel]

Can you update the clipboard history so it doesn’t record whenever I copy passwords from the passwords app when in its in menu bar form? Thanks!

[diggidydale]

With Raycast can I set a flow to be able to open/move specific apps to specific spaces? Like one move slack to desktop4 and discord to desktop5?

[igrb]

Raycast's window management changed how I use my computer, happy to see small company apple learning from yall. They still have a lot to learn tho

[lvn-yp]

Is there a way to set a margin only on the left and right sides between windows?

[cranfktubner]

Great reminder thank you 👍
I'm looking forward to the day we have the virtual desktop support 😅

[Harshabalakrishnan]

Gonna try to check raycast because of this, nice video!

[BLTDFRNT]

love raycast, great video, but btw if you hold option and the + in the window management, you will get the quarter options

[wohfab]

Not ready to give up my tiling window manager for this, but maybe one day, when raycast's window management becomes a little more "tiling" ;)

[mooncakevp]

In many Window Tiling Managers you can add keybinds to move your focussed app to another numbered workspace.
Is this also possible in Raycast?

For example, if I press hyper + 1 I move my focused window to workspace 1. hyper + 2 to workspace 2, etc.

[FBracht]

I did NOT know you could use Quicklinks in Window Layouts! This changes everything! I thought you could only set an app for each "section" of the layout, and it would be opened and/or resized to that portion of the screen. But if I can also set what CONTENT I want displayed on them, this makes it 1000% more powerful to me.