rustcast

RustCast

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

[!IMPORTANT]
Rustcast is no longer being maintained. I was recommending Tinycast, but the dev seems to take bug reports as “bad”, but now I’ve decided to become a contributor to Floe. Another good alternative I know off is Tuna but that’s inspired by Quicksilver, and is closed source.

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 [email protected]

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 :)

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