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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what does glaze do that claude writing swiftui cant
Raycast
@tomcome it's a full ecosystem. You can simply share it in the public store or private team stores. Also it's integrations make everything a whole lot easier. Plus it's a one shot monster with terrific design!
This is an amazing app. Kudos to the team. Is there a plan for selling your own apps? Subscriptions?
Raycast
@ajbatac we have ideas around that we haven't fully explored. Could be subscriptions or some revenue share. But it would be the best incentive.
Glaze gives me peace of mind. I can focus on building my app instead of dealing with AI products that mistake a contrived "human-like" persona for a feature.
The part that hooks me is that these are real Mac apps living in the dock that launch instantly and work offline, not web wrappers, that local-first direction is exactly what I want. When a generated app taps into the full power of your machine, what's the permission model: does each app run sandboxed with scoped access I grant, or does it inherit broad filesystem access by default? And once built, is the app fully local, or does iterating on it keep round-tripping context to your servers?
What's the difference between it & Claude Code, Codex? You mentioned "launches instantly, works offline". Does it use local LLM? Then it helps people deploy on web hosting or playstore/appstore?
Building little Mac apps just by chatting with AI is an interesting evolution of what Raycast already does well. It lowers the barrier for custom tools a lot. Wondering what kinds of apps feel easiest vs. hardest to create this way right now.
Interesting to see how it's becoming literally no cost to build these apps. I wonder how that would impact the app ecosystem in the next 24 months 🤔
One thing I'd love is a simple "version history" toggle so I can roll back to an earlier build of my app if a change breaks something. Right now I'm hesitant to iterate quickly because there's no safety net, and being able to snap back to a known-good version would make experimentation way less nerve-racking.
Described a tiny script for renaming folders by regex and had a working mac app in my dock in under a minute, launching instantly. The "finally personal" framing actually lands here, it really does feel like the app was shaped around me.
Made a tiny habit tracker in like two minutes and it actually sits in my dock and opens instantly. Wild that describing what you want just works.