Glaze is the easiest way to go from an idea to a Mac app. Describe what you want, and it builds a real app that lives in your dock, launches instantly, works offline, and taps into the full power of your computer. Software that's finally personal, shaped around you. From the makers of Raycast.
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 💠
Already a user and lover of Raycast for years, Glaze is such a nice tool! Already built a personal finance tracker and many ideas to come 🤗
Glaze is super fun — kind of the dream of site-specific browsers brought to the generative AI era!
I've built several personal apps so far and published Tesla Energy to help me track my solar production!
love that raycast is going after this, the "lives in your dock and works offline" part is the actual hard problem most AI app builders skip since they're all web output. does the generated app get real native access (menu bar, keyboard shortcuts, notifications) or is it more of a sandboxed webview wrapper under the hood?
I like the idea of Glaze, but are there any plans to let us use our own AI subscriptions instead of Glaze’s credit system? That’s my biggest concern with AI tools at the moment, as nobody likes paying API pricing, but I would happily pay for “Pro Features” on Glaze.
Hey everyone 👋 I'm Pavlo, AI engineer on Glaze.
I build the AI agent behind Glaze, from writing its prompts and refining the harness around it to wiring everything together so it can plan, write code, and validate its own work.
My favorite part is seeing all the effort and engineering behind creating an app disappear into an experience that feels like magic. You describe the app you have in mind, and Glaze helps bring it to life.
On a personal note, beyond being a blast and an awesome challenge to work on, Glaze has also had a real impact on my day-to-day life. I used it to build something I genuinely needed, a dashboard for monitoring my glucose levels tailored to my needs. I never felt like the existing options gave me exactly what I wanted, so I built one for myself with Glaze.
Can’t wait to see what you build. Share your apps, send us your feedback, and help shape what comes next for Glaze 💠
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the free allowance is 120 credits, how much is it actually?
what is the biggest desktop app you can build from scratch on the free trial?
same question for the paid plan, because the cheapest paid plan is $20 which is same as Codex or Claude Code entry subscription price, and this is what Glaze 200 credits compete with
congrats with the launch, it's gonna solve so many quick problems!
I installed this app and created a menu bar app that displays the current weather conditions from my weather station in less than 15 minutes. It's great for those cases where you just want a simple local app on your machine and don;t want to fuss with more complicated tools.
Me appreciate the offline support. how will updates reach existing apps? Automatic syncing could keep everything current with little effort.
How does Glaze actually handle more complex app logic, like connecting to external APIs or saving user data locally, or is it mainly for self-contained little tools right now?
This is exciting. I’d probably use it to finally build a few small Mac apps I’ve been putting off for a while.
The idea of describing what you want and getting a real Mac app in your dock that launches instantly is wild. Big respect to the Raycast team for actually shipping something this ambitious instead of just teasing it.
Yolo being built by one of your own engineers to juggle git worktrees and multiple coding agents is the most convincing demo here — that's exactly the kind of hyper-specific tool nobody ships commercially, and it's the one I'd use daily.
What stands out vs other app-gen tools is the distribution story: private team sharing means internal tools actually stay internal instead of dying as a repo someone has to clone and build. Congrats @thomaspaulmann — curious what the store looks like in six months.
How does Glaze actually handle updates when the underlying Mac OS or your prompt-based code changes, do you have to rebuild from scratch each time?
made a quick app to rename batches of files and it actually worked without me touching a terminal. The offline part is what sold me, didn't expect something this capable to skip the cloud entirely.
How does Glaze actually handle saving and sharing the apps it builds, like can you export them or are they locked to my machine?
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.
Tried it yesterday and already love it. Made a little synth in one prompt, then refined it with three more — now I’ve got this cute vintage synth.
Works really well, and the publish flow is super smooth.
Congrats to the awesome Raycast team 🎉
Hey PH 👋 I’m Alexandr, one of the engineers on Glaze.
One of the most fun parts of building Glaze has been dogfooding it. I spend a lot of my day juggling git worktrees, dev servers, and multiple AI coding agents, but no app felt quite right for my workflow. So I built my own terminal app with Glaze: Yolo.
This is why I’m so excited about Glaze: it makes software feel personal. Not “one app for everyone,” but apps shaped around the exact workflows, habits, and preferences of the people using them.
Can’t wait to see what you build with Glaze — please share your apps with us 🙏
About Glaze by Raycast on Product Hunt
“Create your own Mac apps by chatting with AI”
Glaze by Raycast launched on Product Hunt on July 3rd, 2026 and earned 428 upvotes and 74 comments, earning #1 Product of the Day. Glaze is the easiest way to go from an idea to a Mac app. Describe what you want, and it builds a real app that lives in your dock, launches instantly, works offline, and taps into the full power of your computer. Software that's finally personal, shaped around you. From the makers of Raycast.
Glaze by Raycast was featured in Mac (103.6k followers), Productivity (655.2k followers) and Artificial Intelligence (472.5k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 256.1k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
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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 💠