Recast Users have long been asking the developers of the app for an iOS app. However, it took some time for developers to find out what that app should have done. See, on a Mac (and soon a Windows PC), the recast is a highly powerful tool to navigate your computer. You can use it for launching apps, changing settings, performing commands, controlling the layout of your windows and dozens of other features. Most of this is irrelevant on a phone, and some of them are not simply allowed. In fact, the creation of the Raycast iOS app, in many ways, was easy to find out why it was made in the first place.
The first recurrence of the app, which is being launched for iPhone and iPad today, is heavier on two of the two more popular features of Racact. The first is AI: Raycast has a built-in chatbot that integrates many different models, and you can use the same chat on your phone. You can also use your phone camera to attach a photo in chat, or talk to the bot through voice. There are lots of iOS apps to talk to AI, but the co-founder of the Recast Petr Nicolev says that the users wanted a way to sink their conversation, and a familiar interface to do it on mobile.
Another major feature of Raycact for iOS is Racact Notes, a bare note -taking system that sinks on platforms. In Racate’s desktop app, the notes received a big upgrade recently, and co-founder Thomas Paul Mann says that mobile requests went immediately later. “This is the first material that people are making and stored in the recast,” they say, “and people want to go to it.”
The app has other features, such as using a Quicklinks page you can quickly navigate on a URL or another app, and a snipet page to store the bits used often used. These are highly useful desktop features-Recast Mac has an excellent text-expansion app, and you can use its URL plan to go almost anywhere-but they are limited on mobile that allows Sild platform of Apple.
This is a lot of app. The team’s goal was just to put something in front of users, to see how they use it and what else they want. Inside the company, the potential roadmap seems long: both Mann and Nicolev happily close some things that they are now thinking about adding to the app that it is out. They are especially excited about the idea of ​​a custom keyboard, which you can bring to other apps and easily reach snipet and other bits of other information. They also want to repeat the focus, a feature that lets you block apps and websites so that you can get the goods.
A huge unknown penis on all these plans: How much did Apple do RACACT on iOS? Co-founder would prefer to bring support for the recast extensions, which lets you use the recast to add and recover information from other apps, but they feel that Apple will not allow the possibility as it will look like an app store inside an app. Recast can change the spotlight on a Mac, but nothing can change the spotlight on the iPhone, so they are not sure how much this app makes sense as launcher. They are supporting action buttons, control centers and other surfaces on iOS, but still there is no way to make Racast AI as Siri as Siri. Given all this, how useful can Racast be actually?
A clear solution to these problems will be to build the app for Android, a much more open platform. Nicolev says that they are thinking about it – the idea of ​​building a full system launcher is very attractive – but the company is currently better to create an Apple app. “We want to see how iOS goes,” says Nikolav. “So tell your friends, make it popular! If it is successful, we will make it on Android.”
For now, the team is talking about the mobile app mostly as a partner of the desktop app, which is a way to sink some information in equipment. But the recast works properly because it can change the way you do almost everything. It would clearly like to do the same for the phone. If only it is allowed.
