Settings
Every setting, its default, and the pane it lives in.
Settings opens with ⌘, from the palette, or the Settings command. It is a normal resizable window, and each pane is a standard macOS form.
Sixteen panes in four groups.
General
Global Shortcuts
| Setting | Default |
|---|---|
| App Launcher | None |
Search
| Setting | |
|---|---|
| Learned ranking → Reset | Clears every learned choice. See learned ranking |
| Search Scopes | Folders indexed for applications. See search scopes |
Hyper Key
| Setting | Options | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Hyper Key | None · Caps Lock · Right Control · Right Shift · Right Option · Right Command | None |
| Quick Press | Does Nothing · the original key · Trigger Escape | Does Nothing |
| Include Shift (⇧) | — | On |
See Hotkeys.
Appearance
| Setting | Options | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Theme | System · Light · Dark | System |
| Compact mode | — | Off |
| Show favorites in compact mode | — | On |
| Follow the cursor across displays | — | On |
| Drag to reposition | — | Off |
General
| Setting | Options | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Launch at login | — | Off |
| Show in menu bar | — | On |
| Pop to Root Search | Immediately · 5 · 15 · 30 · 60 · 90 seconds | Immediately |
| Auto-switch input source | None, plus every enabled keyboard source | None |
Shortcuts keep working with the menu-bar icon hidden.
Permissions
Shows the Accessibility status and opens the right System Settings pane. See Permissions.
Launcher panes
Applications · System Settings · System Actions · Commands · Quicklinks
Each is a list with a Show in launcher master toggle and, per row, a visibility checkbox, a shortcut recorder and an alias field. Longer lists have a filter field.
Commands additionally holds the Custom Commands switch, and Quicklinks holds the Quicklinks switch.
Feature panes
Seven features, all off by default.
| Pane | Switch | Other settings |
|---|---|---|
| File Search | Enable File Search | Search Scopes, Ignore Patterns |
| Notes | Enable Notes | Per-command visibility and shortcut |
| Snippets | Enable snippets | Show in launcher, New Snippet, Snippets Folder |
| Window Management | Enable window management | Show in launcher, Cycle sizes on repeat, Gap (0–64 pt, default 0) |
| Clipboard | (always on) | Keep history for (3 Months), Disabled Applications, Clear history |
| Emoji & Symbols | (always on) | Emoji Skin Tone (Default) |
| Extensions | Enable extensions | Show in launcher, package manager, registries, custom search paths, Storage |
Clipboard and Emoji have no feature switch — they are part of the palette itself.
Advanced
Backup — export and import Tinycast settings, and import from Raycast. See Backup.
About — version, license and links.
What is never in a backup
| Excluded | Why |
|---|---|
snippetsEnabled | It is consent to keystroke matching |
extensionsEnabled | It is consent to run third-party code |
| Extension registries, package manager, custom search paths | Machine-specific |
| Palette position | Machine-specific geometry |
| Per-snippet confirmation flags | — |
A backup can never grant a capability. That is a deliberate security control, not an oversight.