Glaze by Raycast - Create your own Mac apps by chatting with AI
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Glaze is the easiest way to go from an idea to a Mac app. Describe what you want, and it builds a real app that lives in your dock, launches instantly, works offline, and taps into the full power of your computer.
Software that's finally personal, shaped around you. From the makers of Raycast.
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This is exciting. I’d probably use it to finally build a few small Mac apps I’ve been putting off for a while.
Raycast
@akashnawani go for it. It’s almost too easy and tons of fun.
How does Glaze actually handle more complex app logic, like connecting to external APIs or saving user data locally, or is it mainly for self-contained little tools right now?
Raycast
@kamile1170180 It can connect to anything. I have apps connected to Linear, Notion, GitHub, local CLIs and MCPs. Just ask the agent and it will figure it out.
I installed this app and created a menu bar app that displays the current weather conditions from my weather station in less than 15 minutes. It's great for those cases where you just want a simple local app on your machine and don;t want to fuss with more complicated tools.
Raycast
@manuel_castaneda1 that's it! No fuss, just what you need.
Dial
love that raycast is going after this, the "lives in your dock and works offline" part is the actual hard problem most AI app builders skip since they're all web output. does the generated app get real native access (menu bar, keyboard shortcuts, notifications) or is it more of a sandboxed webview wrapper under the hood?
Raycast
@omri_ben_shoham1 Bunch of stuff we wire up in a smart way.
Dial
fair enough, ha. curious specifically about keyboard shortcuts though - can the generated app register its own global hotkeys, or does that part stay outside what the AI can wire up on its own
Raycast
@omri_ben_shoham1 you can add hockey. I have a few apps that have them. Best to just ask the agent.
Dial
good to know, thanks - I'll just ask the agent directly next time instead of trying to guess what's supported upfront.
Already a user and lover of Raycast for years, Glaze is such a nice tool! Already built a personal finance tracker and many ideas to come 🤗
Raycast
@edgar_renoud1 Perfect and both go nicely hand in hand. We have tons of ideas to make it connect even better.
Katalyst
How does app signing and all work?
Raycast
@divyansh_lohia All on your Mac. Benefit of having built the most popular on the Mac, we know the one or other thing 😜
the site-specific-browser-meets-generative-AI framing is a great way to put it. curious where the generated apps actually run — fully local on the Mac, or phoning home? that boundary is the whole ballgame for anything touching personal data.
Raycast
@sabber_ahamed Fully local on your Mac! So you can turn off wifi and they still work.
Creating apps I can use instantly from just a few sentences is genuinely fun and kind of unbelievable. I've already built two apps I actually needed. Congrats on the launch!
Raycast
@ondergenc this is amazing! Enjoy your apps. What did you build?
@thomaspaulmann Thanks! One is a little note app for keeping track of my Claude memories/context, and the other is a tracker for our amateur halı saha (small-sided football) games, fixtures, scores, and who's showing up each week :)
Congrats on the launch! 🚀 What’s the most unexpected personal app someone has built with Glaze so far?
Raycast
@doganakbulut One of the first apps was a working synthesizer. We used it in our announcement video. That was pretty rad!
Cool product! I tried to make a music player with the trial credits
Raycast
@pyrodonkey wow this looks amazing