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SuperCmd
Open source alternative to Raycast Pro
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Open source alternative to Raycast Pro
151 followers
SueprCmd is MacOs Launcher — open source alternative to Raycast Pro, WisprFlow, and Speechify in one place. With Raycast-compatible extensions, unlimited clipboard, notes, snippets, Excalidraw canvases, voice dictation with local models, text-to-speech from any app, a powerful calculator with live currency conversions, and AI via your own key or Ollama. Open source productivity suite to 10x yourself
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Great question 😃
The biggest trigger I've seen is pricing — Raycast's pro features add up, and a lot of devs just want a solid launcher without a subscription. SuperCmd is completely free and open source, so that friction is gone.
Privacy and offline-first is the other big one.
Everything runs locally, no cloud dependency.
On migration — I've put a lot of work into making sure the experience feels familiar. SuperCmd already supports most of the features people use 90% of the time (hotkeys, snippets, clipboard history, window management), so the switch is pretty seamless. You're not relearning anything. I'm also actively working toward full feature parity for the remaining edge cases.
And beyond just matching what's already out there, we're adding things Raycast doesn't have — like SuperCmd Canvas, which gives you a built-in Excalidraw workspace right inside the launcher. So it's not just a free alternative, it's heading somewhere different.
I'm curious about the sustainability here. The design is almost identical to Raycast, the features are the same, and you're using Raycast's open-source extensions. At some point, users will just use the original. The audacity to present this as original work is remarkable. There's no shame in being inspired by great products, but there should be shame in just copying them.
@michael_hansen11 SuperCmd is open source and built from the ground up. Being inspired by a category leader isn’t the same as copying Raycast itself was inspired by Alfred. The open-source community seems to appreciate having an alternative they can extend and own.
@elicep There's a difference between being inspired by a "category leader" and shipping nearly identical design. That's not "being inspired" — that's repackaging.
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Hi @michael_hansen11 I completely get you.
SuperCmd is open source and completely free, so you're welcome to contribute and make it even better!
SuperCmd is MIT-licensed, and so are the Raycast extensions. Raycast extensions are community-driven, and it's awesome that anyone can contribute and reuse them. So it's not that I'm copying and calling it mine. I'm taking something that's open source and keeping it open source. and we have mentions and reference to Raycast & Raycast extensions all over SuperCmd's read me page.
Now, just to make it not look like a copy, I can't just build a completely different design nobody is familiar with. You stick to what works and what's proven. Countless hours and days have been spent figuring out what works, and for a single person to research all of this from scratch is impossible. Users expect the same experience because they're used to it. Same UI, same patterns make it easier to switch. It's not that I really wanted to copy; it's just the law of "switching cost," which you need to minimize. I'm just building on what's already proven to work, like everyone else does
Now, SuperCmd also offers canvas, voice dictation, text-to-speech in a natural voice, and custom backgrounds. Things that Raycast doesn't have. If Raycast adds them tomorrow, should I freak out? No! I believe competition makes you move faster and build better products. I'm sure Raycast must have learned something new from the launch of SuperCmd.
I hope that helps.
@shobhit98 Fair points on the open-source licensing and the features you've added. But there's a difference between using open-source code and repackaging an entire product ecosystem with near-identical design. README mentions aren't the same as in-app attribution. That said, if you're genuinely building something better, competition is healthy. Time will tell if users see SuperCmd as a real alternative or just a Raycast variant.
I never thought I'd give up Raycast, but after running this for a few hours, it has everything I use and and a couple of things I'm setting up to start using. Open Source FTW!