Import from Raycast
Read a Raycast export and bring your shortcuts, favorites, snippets, quicklinks and history across.
Tinycast reads Raycast's own export file directly, in Settings → Backup → Raycast Export, or in the welcome screen the first time you open Tinycast.
Which exports it reads
Raycast v2.0 and newer only. Tinycast reads the .rayconfig file that Raycast v2.0 and later
write, and nothing else. Check your Raycast version in Raycast → Settings → About before you
export.
Raycast v1.x exports are not supported. That format was dropped in Tinycast v0.10.5, along with the Raycast X beta format — both were deleted rather than carried. If your file will not open, export it again from a current Raycast.
Steps
- In Raycast, export your settings and data, and note the passphrase.
- In Tinycast, go to Settings → Backup → Raycast Export and choose the file.
- Type the passphrase, tick the things you want, and import.
- Quit Tinycast and open it again.
Quit and reopen Tinycast once the import finishes. Not all of what you brought across takes effect in the running app, so a full restart is what makes the whole import live. Quit from the menu-bar icon — closing the Settings window is not enough — then open Tinycast again.
Tinycast recognizes the file before you type the passphrase, so a wrong passphrase is reported as a wrong passphrase, not as "this is not a Raycast file".
About that passphrase
Raycast encrypts the export even if you never set a password. It makes one up and keeps it in your login Keychain.
You can see it in Raycast → Settings → Extensions → Export Settings & Data, or in Keychain Access
under the service Raycast and account export_passphrase.
Tinycast never reads your Keychain. You paste the passphrase in yourself.
What comes across
| Category | Notes |
|---|---|
| Shortcuts | App shortcuts, command shortcuts, and your Hyper key setup |
| Favorites | From Raycast's pinned items |
| Aliases | App aliases |
| Clipboard history | Text, and images whose files still exist |
| Snippets | Name, text and keyword |
| Quicklinks | Name, link and the app it opens with |
| Emoji skin tone | Raycast's default becomes Tinycast's Default |
| Compact mode | From Raycast's window mode |
| Pop to root | Only when the timing matches one Tinycast offers |
| Launch at login | |
| Menu bar visibility | From Raycast's menu bar icon setting |
The list of apps kept out of clipboard history comes across with Clipboard history.
A shortcut with a modifier Tinycast does not recognize is skipped whole, rather than imported as something slightly different from what you had.
Clipboard history
Images come across only if their files still exist on this Mac. The summary tells you how many were missing, rather than dropping them silently.
Snippets
Snippets are added in their original order, without overwriting anything you already have. Ones that cannot be read are skipped. A name you already use gets a number added, and repeated keywords are kept as they are.
Imported snippets arrive switched on and visible in the launcher, with confirmation off.
Importing never turns on keyword expansion. That switch is yours alone; see Backup. The summary says so, so a keyword that does nothing yet does not look broken.
If the snippet files cannot be written, the summary says so, and the other categories still import.
Quicklinks
Quicklinks are added to your library, never replacing it, and duplicates are skipped just like a
quicklink import. Raycast's {Query} becomes
{argument}.
Importing at least one quicklink turns the Quicklinks feature on.
What else you can bring
Two things are not in a .rayconfig, so they have their own importers:
- Extensions. Settings → Extensions → Import from Raycast copies the extensions you have installed. See Installing extensions.
- Script commands. Settings → Commands → Import Raycast Scripts turns a folder of scripts into custom commands. See Commands.
Afterwards
There is a Quit Raycast button in the pane, for when you are ready.
Nothing in Tinycast needs Raycast to be installed, except importing extensions from it, which by definition reads its folder.