Ferdi VS extensions

Compare Ferdi vs extensions and see what are their differences.

Ferdi

Ferdi is a free and opensource all-in-one desktop app that helps you organize how you use your favourite apps (by getferdi)

extensions

Everything you need to extend Raycast. (by raycast)
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Ferdi extensions
81 23
645 4,695
- 3.6%
9.3 10.0
over 1 year ago 3 days ago
JavaScript TypeScript
Apache License 2.0 MIT License
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Ferdi

Posts with mentions or reviews of Ferdi. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-08.

extensions

Posts with mentions or reviews of extensions. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-07.
  • Loungy: An Application Launcher Written with GPUI, the Zed GPU UI Framework
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Feb 2024
    I agree for 99% of extensions their model is amazing. And I wouldn't expect me to come up with a better one any time soon.

    The problem is that I want to do more in my launcher. Two examples:

    - I wasn't happy with the official bitwarden extension, because going through the clipboard and copy/pasting individual items felt cumbersome. They also only supported one vault even though I asked about this years ago [0]! In raycast I wrote my own bitwarden extension that hooked into Hammerspoon and used the AX spoon to autofill credentials. That felt very hacky though so in my own launcher I am using the accessibility API directly through swift-rs.

    - I wanted to build my own keyboard centric matrix chat client into raycast. I got pretty far, but in the end I was just too limited by the available components. Also I discovered that once your extensions heap reaches 100 MiB, it just gets killed. That basically made it impossible to just load the matrix-sdk including crypto.

    In the end I just didn't want to keep investing time in some proprietary software that doesn't allow me to do what I want to do :)

    [0] https://github.com/raycast/extensions/issues/1544

  • Need help updating Alfred script to work with Arc instead of chrome.
    2 projects | /r/ArcBrowser | 29 Jan 2023
  • iOS Shortcuts Actions Added!
    2 projects | /r/Tailscale | 25 Jan 2023
    This is how fancier automations like the Raycast extension (source) are built.
  • Typeform Navigator: My Raycast Extension
    2 projects | dev.to | 5 Sep 2022
    The only pain point is publishing in on their storage because you need to create a pull request to their extensions repository.
  • Maccy is an open source lightweight and searchable clipboard manager for macOS
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Jun 2022
    I'm not sure about what data it sends home, a lot of stuff I use with Raycast tend to be done locally.

    also all extensions on the store are open sourced (https://github.com/raycast/extensions) so you could audit it yourself as well.

  • What are your favourite Raycast workflows?
    2 projects | /r/macapps | 22 Jun 2022
    .new: Search and open .new web app shortcuts
  • Integration/extension/plugin system in Nodejs
    4 projects | /r/node | 12 Jun 2022
    Hey, thanks for the reply! I'm talking about how it could be implemented using Node. I found this app (Raycast) that uses something similar to what I'm interested in implementing - here it seems that external developers can develop and push extensions to an npm repository in order to publish and use the extension in the program.
  • Open app links inside the app?
    2 projects | /r/macapps | 20 May 2022
    Hi, I'm a Raycast extension developer and saw your post, so I added the ability to open URL Scheme in Open Path extension. If you are a Raycat user, you can try the extension. (The current version doesn't open URL Scheme, I've submitted a PR for the new version and expect to review and update it in a week or two)
  • The only open source app you'll need for your Mac
    2 projects | /r/MacOS | 2 Mar 2022
    Not sure if I'm missing something. The title says the app is open source, but checking GitHub, I see extensions and script-commands, and I don't think the "main" repo is there
  • Best Mac apps of the year 2021?
    4 projects | /r/macapps | 10 Dec 2021
    how they implemented extensions, this app is not sandboxed, so it has access to everything, and all the extensions are written in JavaScript with Node and NPM, and they also run in not sandboxed environment. More details at https://github.com/raycast/extensions/issues/200, I am sure Raycast team reviews those extensions

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Ferdi and extensions you can also consider the following projects:

ferdium - Ferdi when Ferdi is gone

franz - Franz is a free messaging app for services like WhatsApp, Slack, Messenger and many more.

Ferdium - Ferdium is a desktop app that helps you organize how you use your favourite apps by combining them into one application.

caprine - Elegant Facebook Messenger desktop app

community-edition - Free and Open Source messaging and emailing app that combines common web applications into one.

hamsket - Free and Open Source messaging and emailing app that combines common web applications into one.

telegram-react - Experimental Telegram web client with tdlib, webassembly and react js under the hood

element-ios - A glossy Matrix collaboration client for iOS

matrix.to - A simple stateless privacy-protecting URL redirecting service for Matrix

matterbridge - bridge between mattermost, IRC, gitter, xmpp, slack, discord, telegram, rocketchat, twitch, ssh-chat, zulip, whatsapp, keybase, matrix, microsoft teams, nextcloud, mumble, vk and more with REST API (mattermost not required!)

matrix-doc - Proposals for changes to the matrix specification [Moved to: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals]

Monica - Personal CRM. Remember everything about your friends, family and business relationships.