A window switcher, next to a launcher

No. Its Switch Windows command lists windows, so a browser with twenty tabs open is one row of text. Here, every tab in Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Brave, Edge, Vivaldi and Opera is a card of its own, and search matches the website behind a tab, which is the difference between finding a document and finding the window it is buried in.

Yes. Switch Windows is in Raycast's free tier and lists individual windows you can filter by title or app name, as rows of text in the same panel that runs your other commands. This is the visual side of that job: every window as a real picture, arranged in one of seven 3D shapes you orbit, with browser tabs as cards of their own.

Not verified. Raycast's own site does not say either way, so this comparison does not claim that it does or does not show previews, and neither should you assume one way from a screenshot alone. Better Window Switcher shows a real picture of every window, captured live, rather than an icon and a title, which is one honest way the two products differ in how they look while you decide.

Its window switching is, since Switch Windows sits in the free tier. Raycast Pro is a subscription for extra commands, at 10 USD a month or 8 billed annually, so 96 to 120 USD a year for as long as you keep it. Better Window Switcher is 19.99 USD once for two Macs, with every feature included and nothing recurring afterwards.

Yes. Raycast is a general launcher and this is a dedicated visual window switcher, so the two do not conflict in any way, and installing one changes nothing about how the other behaves. Plenty of people run both for their own separate strengths, one for commands and text, and one for finding a window by sight rather than by typing its exact name.

No, and no launcher does. Raycast is a command bar: a list of names you filter by typing. This app arranges the same windows as real perspective cards in seven shapes, Cover Arc, Carousel, Ring, Flip 3D, Panorama, Grid and 2D Row, that you orbit with the trackpad, so you pick a window by recognizing it rather than by naming it.

Yes. Raycast's Switch Windows command lists individual open windows and lets you filter them by title or by app name as you type, the same way most command bars work. Better Window Switcher searches the same way, and also matches the website behind a browser tab, which Raycast's window search does not cover based on what its own site documents.

Yes. Every feature is unlocked for seven days with no account and no card, so you can keep Raycast open for everything else it does and judge the switcher on its own, next to the Switch Windows command you already have. There is a 14 day money back guarantee after that, and one payment of 19.99 USD covers two Macs with nothing recurring afterwards.