It’s the eve of 2025 and it is time for another default apps post.
Updated 2025-03-06 to reflect changes in workflow.
- 📫 Mail Server
- Fastmail
- 📨 Mail Client
- Nextcloud Mail
- Fastmail
- Thunderbird
- 📂 Cloud File Storage
- Nextcloud
- 🌐 Browser
- Vivaldi
- Zen
- 📆 Calendar
- Nextcloud Calendar
- 📑 Read It Later
- Readeck
- 💬 Chat
- Signal, Nextcloud Talk, Wire, Matrix, IRC
- 📝 Notes
- Nextcloud Notes
- Plain text
- Markdown files
- ✅ To-do
- Nextcloud Tasks
- 📸 iPhone Photography
- Halide II
- Moment
- iOS Camera
- 🔲 Photo Management
- Raw Photos
- Photos App
- PowerPhotos
- 📰 RSS
- FreshRSS for sync (selfhosted)
- Reeder 5 (iOS)
- ReadYOU (Android)
- 👯 Contacts
- Apple Contacts
- Fastmail Contacts
- Nextcloud Contacts
- 🎶 Music
- Jellyfin
- YouTube Music
- 🎙️Podcasts
- Apple Podcasts
- 🔐 Password Management
- 1Password
- Vaultwarden
Additional Categories
- 🖥️ Programming
- Neovim
- LazyVim
- Transmit SFTP Client
- 💻 Terminal
- 📷 Photo Editing
- Darkroom
- 🔃 Version Control
- 🗞 News
- RSS
- Hacker News
- Lobsters
- 💰Budgeting and Personal Finance
- Maybe (selfhosted)
- Spreadsheet
Non-Apple Apps
I have alternatives for some of these apps on Linux and Android. If anyone is interested just give me a holler.