It has now been over a year since Andrew, Martin, and Jason of Hemispheric Views listed their app defaults, causing probably the biggest internet movement of 2023, documented with meticulous detail by Robb.

Time to update my list. Indicated are unchanged entries (🔒) and updated entries (✨). I still use the various categories as written by Andrew:

  • 🔒 Mail Client: Mail.app
  • 🔒 Mail Server: iCloud with custom domain and posteo.net
  • 🔒 Notes: Obsidian and some stuff left in Notes
  • 🔒 To-Do: Reminders (and Things at work)
  • 🔒 iPhone Photo Shooting: iOS Camera
  • ✨ Photo Management: Photos, supplemented by Photomator and PowerPhotos
  • 🔒 Calendar: Calendar
  • 🔒 Cloud file storage: iCloud Drive
  • ✨ RSS: Classic Reeder (macOS) and Lire (iOS) in conjunction with Feedbin 1
  • 🔒 Contacts: Contacts
  • 🔒 Browser: Safari
  • 🔒 Chat: iMessage, Threema, WhatsApp
  • 🔒 Bookmarks: Anybox
  • 🔒 Read It Later: Readwise Reader
  • 🔒 Word Processing: Pages (MS Word at work)
  • 🔒 Spreadsheets: Numbers (MS Excel at work)
  • 🔒 Presentations: Keynote
  • 🔒 Shopping Lists: Pons
  • 🔒 Meal Planning: Mela
  • 🔒 Budgeting & Personal Finance: YNAB
  • 🔒 News: Mastodon, tagesschau.de
  • 🔒 Music: Apple Music
  • ✨ Podcasts: Apple Podcasts
  • ✨ Password Management: Apple iCloud Keychain with 1Password as backup

  1. In between, also the new Reeder and Tapestry. I have the feeling that this will change a few more times in the near future. ↩︎