Asyar

The power of Raycast. The speed of Alfred. Privacy by design.

A fast, native Rust & Tauri launcher for macOS, Windows, and Linux.

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Tiny Footprint. Native Performance.

Asyar is built with Tauri + Rust instead of Electron. That means:

• Significantly less RAM — no bundled Chromium, no V8 runtime sitting idle
• Instant startup — the Rust backend initializes in milliseconds
• Real OS integration — native APIs for app indexing, clipboard, global hotkeys, and accessibility
• Secure by default — extensions run in isolated iframes; a broken extension can't crash the launcher

Native performance, web flexibility — Rust does the heavy lifting, Svelte 5 keeps the UI snappy.

Measured against Raycast

_{Measured 2026-10-04 on a Apple M4 Max (36 GB RAM), macOS 27.0.1, each app as installed, summoned by its own registered global hotkey, one at a time on a quiet machine. Black-box measurement: synthetic hotkey press → launcher window on screen. Reproduce with benchmarks/bench.sh.}

Don't take my word for it: benchmarks/bench.sh measures Asyar against Raycast black-box on your own machine — hotkey-to-window latency, cold start, full-process-group memory, idle CPU and wakeups, idle disk writes, and app size — and regenerates this table with --update-readme. Raycast Beta is included automatically when it is installed; the run above was made on a machine without it. The three privileged rows (CPU ms/s, idle wakeups, idle disk writes) need passwordless sudo for powermetrics and fs_usage and report n/a without it — see benchmarks/README.md.

Screenshots

Fast fuzzy search	AI agents with tool calling
Instant calculator	Clipboard history
MCP servers	Window management
Snippets	Scripts
Extensions	Browser integration
Keyboard-first	Settings

Installation

macOS / Linux:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Xoshbin/asyar/main/install.sh | sh

macOS, via Homebrew:

brew tap Xoshbin/asyar
brew trust --tap xoshbin/asyar   # one-time — Homebrew 6+ requires trusting third-party taps
brew install --cask asyar

Windows, or a manual download for any OS: grab the installer for your platform from Releases.

Linux (Wayland) Shortcut Setup:

The Linux installer places the AppImage at ~/.local/bin/asyar and a lightweight summon command beside it at ~/.local/bin/asyar-summon. Wayland protocol security prevents background applications from intercepting global keyboard shortcuts directly, so bind your preferred shortcut in your desktop environment or window manager to execute asyar-summon:

• GNOME: Open Settings → Keyboard → View and Customize Shortcuts → Custom Shortcuts, click +, set Name to Asyar, Command to asyar-summon, and assign your shortcut (e.g. Ctrl+Space or Super+Space).
• KDE Plasma: Open System Settings → Shortcuts → Custom Shortcuts (or Command/URL), add a new global shortcut for asyar-summon, and set your trigger key (e.g. Alt+Space or Meta+Space).
• Hyprland: Add bind = ALT, SPACE, exec, asyar-summon to ~/.config/hypr/hyprland.conf.
• Sway: Add bindsym Mod1+space exec asyar-summon to ~/.config/sway/config.

Switching from Raycast?

If you are moving over from Raycast, you don't have to rebuild your configuration from scratch. I built an instant importer directly into Asyar so you can carry over your setup in seconds:

• 1-Click Migration: Export your data from Raycast (Export Settings & Data ➔ .rayconfig), summon Asyar, and search Import from Raycast (or click the button on the Welcome onboarding screen).
• What Carries Over: Snippets (with keywords and dynamic expansions), Quicklinks (mapped directly to Portals with {query} support), and App Hotkeys/Aliases.
• Privacy & Safety First: Duplicate items are skipped cleanly, your Raycast setup is never altered, and imported data is protected locally with AES-256-GCM encryption backed by your OS Keychain.

👉 Read the full Migrating from Raycast Guide or the Raycast Importer Reference.

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