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Reference

Limits and known gaps

What Beam does not do, and what the code cannot tell us.

Not in Beam 0.1.0

  • No extension store or extension API.
  • No cloud sync, accounts, or team features.
  • No Hyper Key, Auto Quit, Quick Look or OCR.
  • No settings export. Raycast import covers quicklinks and snippets only.
  • File search matches names, not contents.
  • The clipboard database is not encrypted.
  • Snippets have no tags.

Depends on your Mac

  • Apple Intelligence needs macOS 26 and an eligible Mac.
  • Liquid Glass needs macOS 26.
  • Window thumbnails, AI screenshots and the Command-Tab replacement need their permissions.
  • Fn dictation needs the globe key set to Do Nothing.

Not confirmed from the code

  • Which languages Apple dictation handles fully on-device. Beam asks for on-device recognition when supported.
  • Where Settings shows the numeric ID of a command. A code comment says Settings → Commands shows it, but no place that displays it was found. The Deep links page shows how to read the IDs from the database.
  • Emoji skin tone selection. A comment mentions it. No feature was found.