Default Apps
Updated on: October 2025
- ✉️ Mail service: Fastmail (personal), MS Office 365 (work)
- 📬 Mail client(s): FMail 3 on Mac (personal), Outlook for work
- ✅ Tasks: Apple Reminders (personal)
- 🛒 Grocery: AnyList
- 🏦 Finances: Monarch
- 📋 Project Management: Asana (work)
- ✈️Travel Planner: Craft
- 📰 RSS service: iCloud Sync
- 📌 Bookmarks: Raindrop
- 🗞️ RSS client: Reeder
- ⌨️ Launcher: Apple Spotlight or Raycast
- ☁️ Cloud storage: iCloud and Dropbox (personal), Box (work)
- 🌅 Photo library: iCloud, Glass, Adobe Portfolio
- 🤳🏻 Photo editing: Apple Photos (iOS), Lightroom (Mac and iOS)
- 🌐 Web browser: Zen (personal), Firefox (work)
- ⌚️ Productivity: Slack, Pastebot, Otter.ai, Soulver
- 📹 Video: FaceTime (personal), Zoom (work)
- 📝 Tracking: GoodReads (books), Letterboxd (movies), Trakt (TV), LifeCycle (places), Yummi (restaurants), Auto Sleep (sleep)
- 📆 Calendar: Outlook (work), Apple Calendar (personal)
- 💬 Messages: WhatsApp (India), Apple Messages (personal), Slack (work)
- 📖 Reading: Apple News, Libby, Readwise Reader, Kindle,Readwise Reader
- 🌤️ Weather: Apple Weather
- 🎙️ Podcasts: Overcast
- 🎶 Music: Apple Music
- 🔐 Passwords: Apple Passwords (personal) 1Password (work)
- 🐘 Mastodon: Ivory
- 💁🏻 Other Social: Micro.blog, Threads (a little), Instagram (lurker), and Bluesky (lurker)
- 🖼️ Screenshots: CleanshotX
- 📝 Notes: Drafts, Agenda (work)
- 🧮 Code Editor: Visual Studio Code (personal) Stata (work)
- 📊 Spreadsheets: MS Excel (personal), Google Sheets (work)
- 📓 Journaling: Day One
- 🔃 Backup: External Physical Drives and iCloud
- 👨🏻 💻 Blogging: iA Writer and web apps