Raycast: a command per window.
Open Raycast, type a window command, and the front window moves. Saving a layout of several apps takes Raycast Pro. Everything you copy, for every project, lands in one shared clipboard history.
Raycast does a bit of everything. Flincth sets up your desk.
Raycast is a launcher with window commands built in, and saved layouts locked behind a subscription. Flincth does one job properly. One switch moves every app’s window into place, hides the apps you don’t need, and brings up the clipboard history for that work, for one price, once.
Flincth: every window, one switch.
A setup names the apps for a kind of work and the region each one belongs to. Switch to it and they all move at once, and the clipboard shows only what you copied for that work.
Illustrative diagrams, not app screenshots.
One job, done all the way.
Raycast adds windows to a long list of features. Flincth is built around the desk you need for each kind of work.
| Feature | Flincth | Raycast |
|---|---|---|
| Whole desk in one step | Yes. Every app in the setup moves at once | No. Saved layouts need Raycast Pro |
| Clipboard history for each kind of work | Yes. A separate text history for each setup | No. One shared history for everything you copy |
| One click back to your old desk | Yes. “Not Flincth” restores the desk as it was | No. Restores one window at a time |
| Every feature for one price | Yes. Pay once, nothing to unlock | No. Layouts and unlimited clipboard history need Pro, $10 a month |
| Works without Accessibility access | Yes. Windows move through Apple Shortcuts | No. Requires Accessibility access |
| No usage tracking | Yes. No analytics in the app | No. Some interactions are tracked anonymously |
| From the Mac App Store | Yes. Installed, updated and reviewed by Apple | No. Downloaded from raycast.com |
| Multiple displays | Yes. Regions across every display | Yes. Moves windows between displays |
Raycast Pro, for saved layouts and unlimited clipboard history, every year$96.00
Flincth, paid once$9.99
Raycast’s free plan includes single-window commands and three months of clipboard history; Pro is $10 a month or $96 a year (raycast.com/pricing). Raycast is also an app launcher with extensions and AI. Prices checked on 30 September 2026.
Why people move to Flincth.
A launcher is for the next command. Your desk is for the whole day of work.
Your desk, ready in one switch
Coding, writing, meetings: each setup knows its apps and where they go. No more dragging the same windows into the same places every morning.
The right snippets, not all of them
Each setup keeps its own clipboard history, so client notes never turn up in your code and yesterday’s research stays with the research.
Fewer permissions to hand out
Flincth never asks for Accessibility access. It moves windows through the “Flincth Apply” shortcut you install once in Apple Shortcuts.
Nothing to lose by trying
“Not Flincth” puts your desk back exactly as it was, one click away. Your setups and clipboard history never leave your Mac.
Love Raycast as a launcher? Keep it. Flincth takes care of the desk and keeps a clipboard for each kind of work, and the two sit side by side on the same Mac.
Good questions.
Is Flincth a Raycast alternative?+
Yes, for the window and clipboard side of Raycast. Flincth saves the whole desk for each kind of work, with its own clipboard history, and restores it with one switch, for one price paid once.
Raycast is free. Why pay for Flincth?+
Raycast’s free plan moves one window at a time and keeps one clipboard for everything. Saved layouts and unlimited history take Raycast Pro, a subscription. Flincth gives you every setup, its layout, its hidden apps and its own clipboard history for one price, paid once.
Can I use Flincth and Raycast together?+
Yes. Flincth moves windows only when you switch setups and then leaves them alone, so Raycast keeps working as your launcher and for one-off window commands.
Why does Flincth need a shortcut instead of Accessibility access?+
Flincth is sandboxed and never asks for Accessibility access. It moves windows through the “Flincth Apply” shortcut, which you install once in Apple Shortcuts. The app walks you through it.
Can Flincth move windows between desktops?+
No. It places ordinary windows on the current desktop and does not move them between Mission Control desktops or into or out of full screen.
Does Flincth snap windows when I drag them?+
No. Flincth applies your layout when you switch setups. It does not watch for drags or rearrange windows afterwards.
Stop rebuilding the same desk.
One switch for the windows. One clipboard for the work.
Requires macOS 14 or later · No subscription