GitHub is the better app overall, scoring 9.0 to 8.8. GitHub wins on 2 of the 5 scores, Raycast on 3.
Developers and teams who want hosting, code review and CI in one place
Mac power users and developers who live on the keyboard
Score by score
The details
| Feature | GitHub | Raycast |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Developer Tools | Developer Tools |
| Category rank | #2 of 8 | #4 of 8 |
| Developer | GitHub (Microsoft) | Raycast Technologies |
| Pricing | Free + paid plans | Free + paid plans |
| Usable for free | Yes | Yes |
| iPhone & iPad | ✓ | ✓ |
| Android | ✓ | — |
| Mac | ✓ | ✓ |
| Windows | ✓ | ✓ |
| Web | ✓ | — |
Strengths and weaknesses
GitHub
- Industry-standard home for code and open source
- Actions automates builds, tests and deploys
- Generous free plan with unlimited private repos
- Feature sprawl makes settings hard to navigate
- Outages can stall your whole team's workflow
GitHub is the default home for open source and many company codebases, and its tools are hard to beat. Pull requests, code review, Issues and Projects cover the full workflow, and Actions runs your builds and deployments. Copilot adds AI code review and a coding agent that can open pull requests for you. Private repos are free. The catch is growing complexity, and an outage can stall your whole team.
Full GitHub review
Raycast
- Much faster and more capable than Spotlight
- Generous free tier covers most daily use
- Extension store connects many developer tools
- AI and cloud sync require a Pro plan
- Mac version is well ahead of other platforms
Raycast replaces Spotlight with a launcher that does far more: clipboard history, window management, snippets, quick calculations and a large store of community extensions for tools like GitHub, Linear and Jira. It is fast and keyboard-driven, and most of it is free. Raycast Pro adds AI chat with models from several labs, cloud sync and more. It is built for the Mac first, and other platforms are less mature.
Full Raycast review
