My defaults app end of 2025
A little behind schedule this year. Following 2023 (and admitting I missed 2024), these are the apps I used throughout 2025.
Communication
- HEY
- Chat
- iMessage
- WhatsApp (because everybody uses it 🤮)
- Discord
- Mastodon server
- omg.lol
- Mastodon client
- Ivory
Productivity
- Tasks & Notes
- Workflowy
- Shopping list
- Reminders app
- Calendar
- Fantastical
- Contacts
- Cardhop
- Markdown editor
- iA Writer
Reading & Media
- RSS service
- Miniflux (self hosted)
- RSS client
- Reeder on iOS and web client elsewhere.
- Reading
- Readwise Read
- Podcasts
- Castro
- Music
- Spotify
- Navidrome (self hosted)
Photography
- Photo library
- iCloud
- Photo editing
- Darkroom
- Camera app
- Leica LUX
Development
- Code editor
- Nova
- Terminal
- Ghostty
- AI code assistant
- Claude Code
System Utilities
- Launcher, Clipboard manager & AI assistant
- Raycast
- Automation
- Keyboard Maestro
- Screenshots
- CleanShot X
- Passwords
- 1Password
- VPN
- ExpressVPN
- Dictation
- MacWhisper
Internet
Cloud Storage
- Photos
- iCloud
- Files
- kDrive
Daily Life
- Map
- Swisstopo
- Apple Maps
- Weather
- MeteoSwiss App