Raycast vs Shortwave

Side-by-side comparison of Raycast and Shortwave: pricing, features, API access, and community ratings.

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	Raycast Your shortcut to everything Visit	Shortwave Automate your email with AI — organize, schedule, write and search with just a prompt Visit
Category	Productivity	Productivity
Pricing	Freemium	Paid
Starting price		USD 30/mo
Free tier
Audience	All audiences	All audiences
API available
Open source
Self-hostable
Model provider		Multiple (top AI research labs)
Founded		2021
Headquarters		San Francisco, USA
Key strengths	·Extendable launcher with thousands of community extensions ·Keyboard-first ergonomic design ·Built-in AI agent with tool integrations (Quick AI, AI Chat, AI Extensions) ·Snippets and Quicklinks for automation	·AI-powered email automation and organization ·Multiple Claude model tiers (Haiku, Sonnet, Opus) ·Team collaboration features (shared threads, comments, assignments) ·AI-powered search across email history