Inspired by Rebecca Owen's post and over 130 others from the community as of this writing, I am also joining the trend of sharing my current default apps list. I've done something similar back in 2017 with my checklist of apps and configurations when starting fresh on a new Mac, and my Uses page also contains a smaller list of software. But this will be a more complete and up-to-date list at the time of this publication.
As far as I understand, the initial intent of this from the Hemispheric Views podcast episode (which admittedly I haven't listened to) was to look at how many of these categories are the built-in default apps that come with the OS such as Apple Mail, Notes, Reminders, etc. But it seems like this has evolved quite a bit and people have thrown in their own categories that may not have platform default counterparts. So I'm separating them into main categories and a list of additional ones of my own.
Main categories:
- Mail Client: Spark
- Mail Server: Fastmail (referral link)
- Notes: Notion and occasionally Apple Notes
- To-Do: Apple Reminders
- iPhone Photo Shooting: Camera app for most things, Halide if I want to get serious
- Photo Management: Apple Photos
- Calendar: Fantastical
- Cloud File Storage: iCloud Drive
- RSS Reader: NetNewsWire
- Contacts: Apple Contacts
- Browser: Safari
- Chat: iMessage, WhatsApp, LINE, Telegram, and Discord
- Bookmarks and Read It Later: Matter (but I'm bad at actually going back to read them)
- Word Processing: Pages
- Spreadsheets: Numbers
- Presentations: Keynote
- Shopping Lists: Apple Reminders and Grocery for groceries
Meal PlanningRecipe Manager: Mela- Budgeting and Personal Finance: Copilot
- News: Not any one place, but I guess Mastodon, RSS, and very rarely Apple News (used to mostly be Reddit, but RIP)
- Music: Apple Music
- Podcasts: Overcast
- Password Manager: 1Password
Additional categories:
- Calendar Server: iCloud, occasionally Fastmail
- Weather: CARROT Weather
- Navigation: Google Maps, but trying to use Apple Maps more
- Photos Editing: Adobe Lightroom Classic, and sometimes Photoshop
- Search Engine: Ecosia
- Video Call: FaceTime
- Journal: Day One (and a physical gratitude journal from Kurzgesagt)
- Movie Tracking: Letterboxd
- Reading Tracking: Goodreads and my app Tsundo
- Mastodon Client: Ivory
- Launcher: Raycast
- Clipboard Manager: Pastebot
- Terminal: iTerm 2 with fish and Oh My Fish
- Code Editor: Visual Studio Code
- Blogpost Writing: BBEdit