Raycast brings its super-powerful Mac launcher to iOS, sort of

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Raycast users person been asking the app's developers for an iOS app for a agelong time. It took a while, though, for the developers to fig retired precisely what that app was expected to do. See, connected a Mac (and soon a Windows PC), Raycast is a hugely almighty tool for navigating your computer. You tin usage it to motorboat apps, alteration settings, execute commands, power the layout of your windows, and dozens of different features. Much of that is irrelevant connected a phone, and immoderate of it is conscionable simply not allowed. Actually gathering the Raycast iOS app was, successful galore ways, easier than figuring retired wherefore to physique it successful the archetypal place.

The archetypal iteration of the app, which is launching contiguous for iPhone and iPad, leans heavy connected 2 of Raycast's much fashionable features. The archetypal is AI: Raycast has a built-in chatbot that integrates a fig of antithetic models, and you tin usage the aforesaid chat connected your phone. You tin besides usage your phone's camera to connect a photograph to the chat, oregon talk to the bot via voice. There are plentifulness of iOS apps for talking to AI, of course, but Raycast co-founder Petr Nikolaev says users wanted a mode to sync their conversations, and a acquainted interface for doing it connected mobile.