In the recent episode of the Hemispheric Views podcast Andrew, Martin & Jason talk about their default apps in several categories. This has prompted some bloggers to share their default apps as well, which Robb is now collecting over here.
I really enjoyed hearing about their app usage and reading these posts as well, so I thought I’ll share my default apps, too:1
- Mail Client: Spark
- Mail Server: GSuite (or whatever they are calling it right now)
- Notes: Drafts and Notion as a personal and work related wiki
- To-Do: Things and Apple’s Reminders for tasks shared with my wife
- iPhone Photo Shooting: Apple’s Camera app
- Photo Management: Apple’s Photos app
- Calendar: Fantastical
- Cloud file storage: iCloud+ with family sharing, Dropbox with a family plan, Google Drive
- RSS: Feedbin with Reeder
- Contacts: Cardhop synced with GSuite
- Browser: Safari on iOS, Arc on macOS
- Chat: iMessage, WhatsApp, Signal, Threema and Slack; also some clients are forcing me to use Teams
- Bookmarks: Anybox
- Read It Later: GoodLinks and Omnivore because of it’s read-aloud voices; also testing it for newsletters right now
- Word Processing: Apple’s Pages (since Pages 09!)
- Spreadsheets: Good Old Excel
- Presentations: iA Presenter
- Shopping Lists: Drafts
- Meal Planning: –
- Budgeting & Personal Finance: AirTable and custom Scriptable widgets; planning to switch to a Notion database soon
- News: Tagesschau and Artifact
- Music: Apple Music plus saved, not yet listened to tracks in MusicBox
- Podcasts: Pocket Casts (syncs on all my devices including my Google Automotive powered car)
- Password Management: 1Password
- The last time I did this for my macOS apps was in 2014 – back when it was still called Mac OS X. 😳 [↩]