Glaze by Raycast - Create your own Mac apps by chatting with AI

Hey Product Hunt 👋

I'm Thomas, co-founder and CEO of Raycast. Today we're opening Glaze to everyone, and I think it's a small step toward software finally getting personal. We couldn't be more excited to share it with the Product Hunt community.

Here's the thing that got us here. Tools are how we make progress, and today so many of our tools are apps. But most software is a compromise. To reach millions of people, you build for the average, and the average doesn't really exist. We're all individuals, so the "one app for everyone" always leaves something on the table.

Glaze flips that. You describe what you want, and it builds a Mac app shaped around you. It lives in your dock, launches instantly, works offline, and taps into the full power of your machine. When something isn't right, just talk to it and change it. It's so much fun iterating on it to get exactly what you're looking for.

And it doesn't stop at building. You can publish your app to the public store for anyone to use, or share it privately with your team, so internal tools stay internal and good ideas spread. We run our support and sales processes fully on Glaze apps at Raycast. Additionally, we've seen teams like Cursor, Linear, or Vercel building custom apps to optimize how they get work done.

A few of my favorite apps:

• World Cup: Simply stay on top of all matches, with live stats, a beautiful knockout stage view and more.

• Yolo: A terminal that is optimized for using agents with vertical tabs, AI suggestions and a ton of keyboard shortcuts.

• CS Glaze Synth: A full synthesizer 🤯 The app was used to create the sounds for our launch video.

Glaze is free to start, and there's a paid plan when you want to go further. Mac first, with more platforms to come.

Honestly, the part that blows me away is the creativity. People keep building things we'd never have thought of, and that's exactly what we hoped for.

One thing I'd genuinely love your take on: what's the one app you've always wished existed but never had the time or setup to build? Sign up, try to build it and share your link below.

Thanks for taking a look. We're early, and we'll learn most of this in the open with you 💠

Hey everyone 👋

I’m Alex, Product Designer at Raycast and part of the team behind Glaze. We’re incredibly excited to finally share Glaze with the world. It’s been a wild journey turning an idea into a product that lets anyone build fully functional, beautiful desktop apps.

A few of my favorite things about it:

• Describing an idea and watching it appear in my macOS dock, ready to use anytime

• Using Annotation to make changes directly inside my app and watching them happen in real time

• Generating app icons and exploring different concepts until one just feels right

• Browsing the Store and discovering apps built by my team and the wider Glaze community

A few apps I built myself:

1. Hotkey Explorer: helps me explore and organize hotkey systems for Raycast

2. Winamp: brings my favorite music player from the 2000s (and all its wild skins) to macOS

3. Glassmaker: helped me design the Glaze app icon by exploring glass shapes and materials

We can’t wait to see what you build! Share your apps and let us know what you think. We’re just getting started, and your feedback will help us shape what comes next for Glaze. 💠

Hey, one of the makers of Glaze here 👋 Being able to build truly personal apps in just a few prompts is SO powerful, especially when you don't have to think about boilerplate setup and how to distribute the app with others.

Here's a few personal ones built for myself:

• Spotify Classic: A dead simply Spotify client inspired by the original macOS app, no fluff - just playlists and search.

• Avalanche Map: Visually plan ski touring adventures with 3d maps showing the latest official Swedish avalanche report.

• Shader: I'm a huge sucker for evening sun, this makes it easy to visualize shadows from mountains, buildings and trees at any location, date, and time.

• Ray.fm: Create your own radio stations, and vibe to the retro cassette-style UI.

• Funky Mirror: Play with fun webcam effects on your laptop.
  

Really excited to see what everyone is shipping on the Glaze store!

Amazing tool!

I'm not a developer, but I made an app for myself in very short time — a diary writing app. Now I finally have what I've always wanted. It really blew me away how easy it was to make.. Glaze isn't just for developers; it's also for regular users like me. I already have several more apps in mind.

Congrats on the launch! 🎉

I jumped in early and already built two apps to test it out. Going from “I wish this existed” to something sitting in my dock in a few minutes still feels a bit magical.

To answer Thomas’ question: the annotation flow is what sold me — being able to just talk to the app and watch it change in real time made iterating genuinely fun rather than a chore.

Excited to see where this goes. 💠

The interesting constraint here is that "create a Mac app by chatting" covers a huge range of outcomes, from a quick menu bar utility that does one thing to something with persistent state and real UI. Curious where Glaze actually sits on that spectrum. Specifically, what happens when the generated app needs to store data between sessions or talk to an external API, does it scaffold something real that you can open in Xcode and extend, or is the output more like a self-contained script that lives and dies inside Raycast?

I've tried Glaze earlier this week. Would've been great if we could export apps as xcode projects. Other than that, it works really well. Love it!

I've seen early previews of Glaze and it has been really impressive. Just like everything else from the Raycast team, the level of polish and attention to detail has been amazing. Looking forward to building my own mini-apps without having to do any of the heavy lifting that is usually required for this!

Hello fam!

I built a Glaze app to help me archive all of my analog scans. It's such a personal app that I never would've found one that worked the way I wanted it. I feel happy every time I use it 😁 I even made a video on my YouTube channel about, check it out to see it in action.

I'm also currently building an app to help me manage everything that's in mymind!