rustcast-cross

A fork of rustcast with active cross platform development

RustCast, Raycast and PowerToys Run are productivity tools. They provide a popup search bar that people can use to do many things, like opening apps, calculators, quick-notes, etc.

Community: https://discord.gg/bDfNYPbnC5 (rustcast-cross channel)

Why does this fork exist?

The main repo recently stopped having official support for platforms other than MacOS. This fork is meant to have that.

It'll probably be less polished than the main repo, at least in the short term, and they probably won't have perfect feature parity by any means, since that's just not all that important.

Supported platforms

• Windows
• MacOS *
• Linux *

* Probably rather wonky

Installation

Homebrew

brew tap unsecretised/tap
brew install --cask rustcast

Then launch it via launchpad or spotlight (hopefully the last time you have to use spotlight :) Have fun!)

Via github releases

1. Go to the releases page
2. Download the .zip file or .dmg file
3. If .dmg file, open it and drag the RustCast.app to your /Applications/ (you should be guided)
4. If .zip file, extract the RustCast.app to your /Applications/

Building it youself

MacOS

1. Clone the repo with git clone https://github.com/rustcast-cross/rustcast-cross/rustcast.git
2. Install cargo bundle with cargo install cargo-bundle (Requires cargo to be installed)
3. Run cargo bundle --release to build RustCast for your system (The App Dir will be available at: target/release/bundle/osx/RustCast.app)
4. Move the RustCast.app directory to your /Applications/ folder, and launch RustCast

Windows and Linux

1. Clone the repo with git clone https://github.com/rustcast-cross/rustcast-cross/rustcast.git
2. Run cargo build --release to build rustcast for your own device

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 cliboard history page, which allows u to access your clipboard history,
• Blur / transparent background (7/1/2026) and then use main to switch back, or just open an close the app again
• 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

Planned

• Popup note-taking
• Plugin Support (Partially implemented on 15/12/2025)
• Hyperkey - Map CMD + OPT + CTRL + SHIFT to a physical key
• Ability to pick between tabs in firefox / chromium browsers - using Puppeteer

RustCast wouldn't be possible without these people:

Note

Taken verbatim from the upstream repo

• Nazeofel - First sponsor + initiater 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!

All the people who starred my repo!!

Those who sponsor me also get a free easter egg inside RustCast, so if you want a free easter egg, a dollar is all you need!

Contributors

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