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The biggest feature that was missing when I was testing the closed beta was Window Management! Hope that made / makes it into this version of the app soon.

Great piece of software and proud to advocate for its use on macOS to anyone willing to listen.

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Alfred (https://www.alfredapp.com/) has been an indispensable part of my computing since it debuted. It's excellent.

Because of that, I've found it difficult to even give Raycast a try, let alone switch over to it.

Perhaps you could offer your best argument to persuade me why it would be worthwhile.

Give it a test drive. I've been a past Alfred user, and I think Raycast is better on pretty much every metric.

Without knowing what you value about Alfred, there could be a million different things one could argue on.

I'm a pretty happy Alfred user and the only thing keeping me off of Raycast is the VC funding, the AI-down-throat shoving, and I prefer Alfred's licensing scheme. Over 90% of my Alfred usage is to quickly Kagi search something, access clipboard history, or launch an app. I'm by no means a power user, and likely the new Spotlight in macOS 26 could meet my needs, but Alfred just keeps chugging away.

We have basic window management now available like Left Half, Center, and so on. More to come!

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