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Default Apps

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People are writing about their default apps in the small community that is the indie web. Here are mine.

πŸ“« Mail Server/Service and Client

  • Fastmail on iOS and iPadOS
  • FMail2, free and open source Fastmail client for macOS

πŸ“ Notes

  • Notes app
  • Obsidian

βœ… To-do

  • Things
  • Taskpaper

πŸ“Έ iPhone Photography

  • Moment Pro Photo app

πŸ“Ή iPhone videography

  • Moment Pro Photo app
  • Filmic Pro Legacy

🟦 Photo Management

  • RAW Photos
  • Photos.app
  • PowerPhotos (macOS only)

πŸ“† Calendar

  • Calendars 366
  • Structured Calendar (Lifetime purchase)

πŸ“† Calendar Backend

  • Fastmail
  • iCloud

πŸ“‚ Cloud File Storage

  • iCloud
  • Nextcloud1
  • Synology Drive

πŸ“° RSS

  • NetNewsWire & Readwise Reader
  • RSS Backend iCloud2

πŸ” Browser

  • Arc
  • Safari

πŸ’¬ Chat

  • iMessage
  • Signal
  • IRC

πŸ”– Bookmarks

  • Notes.app
  • Goodlinks

πŸ“œ Word Processing

  • VS Code

πŸ€‘ Budgeting

  • Google Sheets
  • My bank app

🎢 Music

  • Downloaded tracks with yt-dlp
  • IINA on macOS
  • Still need to pony up for iTunes Match
  • YouTube Music

πŸŽ™οΈ Podcasts

  • Overcast, though I am really finding I am done with the majority of Apple and tech focused podcasts. Been listening to this stuff for over 10 years now. Need a breather.

πŸ” Password Management

  • 1Password3
  • Vaultwarden4

πŸ“Έ Photo Editing

  • RAW Photos
  • Darkroom
  • Photomator
  • Pixelmator Pro
  • Pixelmator Photo

What are yours?

Footnotes

  1. I am unfortunately still out of work and I’ve had to find creative ways to cut back on expenses. I self host a lot of services where I am staying, my friend’s mom letting me setup my home lab in my room. I can host these services for free. It is not for the faint of heart; if you hate tinkering, if you hate doing research on bug fixing and troubleshooting, if you hate learning how to secure a network and fight the bots that will inevitably pummel your network with junk packets, if you hate YAML, it isn’t for you. ↩

  2. I am looking at moving away from as many proprietary services as I can so FreshRSS, another self-hosted alternative to RSS backends will be my move. NetNewsWire has the option to grab your feeds from your own self-hosted RSS service. ↩

  3. I love 1Password. I have everything in it. The problem for me right now is affordability. I don’t think it is possible for me to switch as it’s just too important to my workflow; ssh keys, GitHub tokens, all of this built right into the client. It’s just too good. ↩

  4. I am testing out Vaultwarden as a 1Password alternative. It is an open source client you can, surprise surprise, self-host. It is severely lacking in features so it looks like 1Password is still my go to for the foreseeable future. ↩