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RustCast

An open-source, Rust-powered productivity, blazing fast popup launcher for apps, utilities, and workflows.

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Those who sponsor me also get a personal easter egg inside RustCast

Config docs: https://github.com/MystikoLab/rustcast/wiki

Community: https://discord.gg/bDfNYPbnC5

Plugins: RustCast Library for shell scripts

For support use github discussions / issues / the discord

You can also contact MystikoLab / secretised at admin@rustcast.app

RustCast Demo

Installation:

Via Homebrew:

brew install --cask unsecretised/tap/rustcast

Via github releases

  1. Download the dmg from this link https://github.com/MystikoLab/rustcast/releases/latest/download/rustcast.dmg

Config:

Full config docs can be found here

The config file should be located at: ~/.config/rustcast/config.toml RustCast creates the default configuration for you, but it does use its default options Here's a full list of everything you can configure The list.

Feature list:

Finished:

  • Autoload installed apps 11/11/2025
  • Search through apps 11/11/2025
  • Generate randomvar (between 0 and 100) via the app. Simply type randomvar and it will generate the num for you
  • Image icons next to the text 13/12/2025
  • Scrollable options 12/12/2025
  • Customisable themes (13/12/2025)
    • Configurable colours
  • Spotify control - Ability to control spotify via the app
  • Allow variables to be passed into custom shell scripts.
  • Google your query. Simply type your query, and then put a ? at the end, and press enter
  • Calculator (27/12/2025)
  • Clipboard History (29/12/2025) This works by typing cbhist to enter the clipboard history page, which allows you to access your clipboard history,
  • Blur / transparent background (7/1/2026)
  • Select the options using arrow keys
  • Tray icons (8/1/2026)
  • Unit Conversions (19/1/2026) thanks to Hriztam
  • Emoji Searching (19/1/2026) Allows people to search for emojis through rustcast
  • RustCast modes (2/3/2026)
  • Better documentation for the config (3/3/2026)
  • Image rendering from clipboard history (13/3/2026)
  • File searching (11/3/2026)
  • CTRL n / p (vim motions) navigation for search results (5/3/2026)
  • Settings Panel (22/3/2026)

Planned:

  • Popup note-taking
  • Plugin Support (Partially implemented on 15/12/2025)
  • Hyperkey - Map CMD + OPT + CTRL + SHIFT to a physical key
  • Better hotkey picking
  • Ability to pick between tabs in firefox / chromium browsers - using Puppeteer

Not planned:

  • Cross platform support Cancelled for now, as not within my ability to support and maintain it

RustCast wouldn't be possible without these people:

  • Nazeofel - First sponsor + initiator of windows support
  • Mnem42 - Helped add windows support
  • Random Scientist - First ever community contributor to rustcast
  • Lemon - Sponsored me, and gave me free Discord Nitro
  • Julie / Zoey - Gave me amazing feedback and has been using RustCast since almost the first version!
  • Hriztam - Added support for unit conversions to rustcast
  • Lars-Schumann - Sponsored me
  • Tanishq Dubey - Contributor, improved the file search to use mdfind
  • JON - Contributor,

And of course, all the people who starred my repo!!

And the updated list of contributors to the macos version:

Easter egg list:

  • Nazeofel (Random Variable on discord) -> led to the randomvar easter egg
  • Lemon -> led to the lemon easter egg that shows "lemon" on rustcast
  • Lars-Schumann -> search f and get ferris.rs as a result
  • Me -> 67

If you like rustcast, consider starring it on github :)

Star History Chart

Motivations:

I didn't want to pay for raycast + wanted to get better at rust. Raycast in itself is one of the most useful productivity apps in my opinion, and it is truly an underappreciated marvel of computer engineering

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