Raycast’s Glaze launches Mac app-building tool with free tier and Pro subscription

Raycast’s Glaze, a vibe-coding tool for building Mac apps, opened to all users in early June after a waitlist period. The tool includes a free tier with a one-time bundle of credits sufficient to build one or two apps. A Pro subscription, priced at $20 per month at launch, provides 200 credits monthly with the option to purchase additional credits if needed.

Glaze differentiates itself by offering a working Mac app template, which reduces the need for extensive prompting and scaffolding. The tool compiles and installs apps automatically and integrates image-generation models natively. Users can edit an app while it is running, including drawing circles around elements to guide coding agents. Apps can be published to Glaze’s store or used privately.

In testing, a reviewer built three apps within a month using Glaze. The first, a Nightwing-themed to-do app, generates comic-book-style imagery and animations for completed tasks. The app also displays a random Nightwing comic synopsis and the current day of the year. The reviewer acknowledged the app’s lack of practical utility and potential copyright or safety concerns but noted it made chores more enjoyable.

The reviewer also created a Platformer Mac app that performs semantic searches over the publication’s archive using an Anthropic API key. The app includes a home page with key topics, people, recent columns, and randomly selected quotes from past coverage. Described as a cheap, elegant research assistant, the app was built in about a day and tailored to the reviewer’s specific needs.

The reviewer’s third project, a half-built contacts app called Source Code, aims to visualize the user’s professional network by combining phone and LinkedIn contacts. The tool’s live visual updates during development were cited as making vibe coding feel more interactive than prior experiences.