Default Apps

Following many others, this is my list of default apps in 2023. The categorization is coming from the Hemispheric Views Podcast and should be equal to all others that have submitted their default apps.

• 📨 Mail Client: Outlook
• 📮 Mail Server: Office365
• 📝 Notes: Agenda and Tot
• ✅ To-Do: Things
• 📷 iPhone Photo Shooting: Camera
• 🟦 Photo Management: Adobe Lightroom Classic for editing and Photos for organization
• 📆 Calendar: Fantastical Calendar
• 📁 Cloud File Storage: iCloud Drive
• 📖 RSS: Reeder with FreshRSS
• 🙍🏻‍♂️ Contacts: Apple Contacts on iOS and CardHop on MacOS
• 🌐 Browser: Safari
• 💬 Chat: Messages and WhatsApp
• 🔖 Bookmarks: Linkding
• 📑 Read It Later: none
• 📜 Word Processing: Word
• 📈 Spreadsheets: Excel
• 📊 Presentations: PowerPoint
• 🛒 Shopping Lists: Things
• 🍴 Meal Planning: Paper and pen
• 💰 Budgeting and Personal Finance: Banktivity
• 📰 News: NRC, NOS and Tweakers.net
• 🎵 Music: Apple Music
• 🎤 Podcasts: Pocket Casts
• 🔐 Password Management: 1Password

Some additional categories:

• 🔖 Journal: Day One
• 🚀 Launcher: Alfred
• 🗺️ Maps: Google Maps
• 🔐 VPN: ProtonVPN
• 🌦️ Weather: Carrot Weather

Updates:

2023/12/25: 290 people submitted their default apps. All submissions are listed here.
2023/11/27: Updated the list with the emoji’s per category provided by Gabz.