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Default Apps 2025
Here are my Default Apps of 2025.
“Apps I’ve been using regularly this year.” Heavily inspired by Jeff Triplett. Catalogued by Robb Knight’s App Defaults
- Mail Client: Edison Mail and gmail in browser
- Notes: Obsidian, SimpleNotes
- To-Do: Bullet Journel
- Photo Shooting: iPhone, Canon 6D
- Photo Editing: PhotoShop, Gimp
- Calendar: Notion Calendar
- Cloud File Storage: iCloud + Google Drive
- RSS: NetNewsWire
- Contacts: Apple Contacts & Google Contacts
- Browser: Arc, Zen Browser and Safari
- Chat: Apple Messages, Discord, Slack
- Bookmarks: RainDrop.io
- Read It Later: Safari Reading List
- Word Processing: Apple Pages
- Spreadsheets: Google Sheets
- Presentations: Figma
- Shopping Lists: Amazon
- Budgeting and Personal Finance: paisa
- News: Perplexity.ai, NetNewsWire
- Music: Youtube Music
- Password Management: 1Password and Apple Passwords
- Code Editor: Zed & Cursor
- VPN: AdGuard, Zscalar
Bonus Items
Important enough to include here, ordered roughly by how often I rely on each.
- Launcher: Raycast
- Ad Blocking: AdGuard
- Terminal: iTerm 2 with ZSH
- Search Engine: DuckDuckGo and Google
- Version Control: lazygit
- Screenshots: CleanShot X (also trying out Xnapper)
- Mastodon Client: Mastonaut
- Code Repositories: GitHub
- Reading: Kindle
- Writing: Obsidian, Zed
- Design: Figma, Gimp
- App + Server Monitoring: Sentry
- Brainstorming: Obsidian
- Video Calls: Meet, Zoom
- Snippet Sharing: Github Gist
- Project Management: Linear, Jira