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Raycast
✓ verifiedFreemium
A fast, keyboard-driven Mac/Windows launcher with an extension store and built-in AI commands for power users who live in shortcuts.
1.1M visits/mo3.4K saves
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LightOn
✓ verifiedFreemium
Production RAG API for developers: parse, extract and search documents with SOTA OCR and cited retrieval, cloud or on-prem.
29K visits/mo
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Interviews Chat
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI interview copilot delivering real-time answer suggestions and live transcription across video, phone and coding interviews.
120K visits/mo6.2K saves
Pricing
Pro (with AI): $8/month
Free trial available
Starter: Free + usage (parsing €0.002/page)
Business: €149/mo + usage (100 GB storage, unlimited users)
Free trial available
No public pricing
Core features
- ✦Extendable command-bar launcher for macOS and beta Windows support
- ✦Thousands of third-party extensions from a public store
- ✦Built-in AI chat and custom AI command automation
- ✦Clipboard history, window management, and calculator utilities
- ✦Text snippets and quicklinks for repetitive actions
- ✦Hotkeys and aliases for common apps and commands
- ✦Team plan for sharing snippets, quicklinks, and extensions
- ✦Parse endpoint with SOTA OCR (LightOnOCR-2)
- ✦Extract endpoint for schema-based JSON
- ✦Search endpoint with hybrid retrieval and citations
- ✦MCP-native and LLM-agnostic
- ✦Workspaces and chunk-level access control
- ✦On-prem, VPC or air-gapped deployment
- ✦Real-time answer suggestions
- ✦Live interview transcription
- ✦STAR and bullet response formats
- ✦Chrome extension for online assessments
- ✦AI interview prep and mock interviews
- ✦Multiple AI models (GPT, Claude, Gemini)
Use cases
- →Launching apps and running quick commands without leaving the keyboard
- →Automating repetitive text and file tasks with snippets and quicklinks
- →Getting AI answers or writing help without switching apps
- →Sharing productivity tooling and extensions across a team
- →Build production RAG without a long in-house pipeline
- →OCR and structure scanned documents
- →Grounded document search with citations for agents
- →Deploy secure enterprise document intelligence
- →Getting live help during interviews
- →Answering online coding assessments
- →Practising with AI-generated questions
- →Handling phone and video interviews
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