Hopping aboard that Default Apps 2023 train

A lot of very cool people I know on the internet are writing about what their default apps of choice are, inspired by a recent episode of the podcast Hemispheric Views.

Ever someone willing to share his unnecessarily non-standard setup, I figured “eh, I’ll write up my list too.”

Here goes…


📨 Mail Client – Mimestream on computer,  Mail on mobile devices.

📮 Mail Server – Google Workspace

📝 Notes – Bear

✅ To-Do – Things

📷 iPhone Photo Shooting –  Camera

🟦 Photo Management –  Photos, usually edited with either Photomator, Pixelmator Pro or Affinity Photo 2

📆 Calendar – Fantastical

📁 Cloud File Storage – Google Drive (for what needs to be shared) and iCloud (for my own stuff)

📖 RSS – Reeder, using Feedbin as the backend

🙍🏻‍♂️ Contacts –  Contacts

🌐 Browser – Safari

💬 Chat – iMessage

🔖 Bookmarks – I don’t really keep bookmarks? Most of what I’d want I keep in…

📑 Read It Later – Instapaper

📜 Word Processing – Pages

📈 Spreadsheets – Numbers

📊 Presentations – Keynote

🛒 Shopping Lists – An  Note shared with my lovely wife

🍴 Meal Planning – I don’t, but I should…

💰 Budgeting and Personal Finance – Well, it was Mint. Maybe YNAB next?

📰 News – Reeder mostly, with a touch of  News+ (I mean, it’s part of Apple One, so…)

🎵 Music –  Music

🎤 Podcasts – Overcast

🔐 Password Management – 1Password


What are you using, dear reader?