Default Apps 2026
- 📨 Mail Client: Gmail (web and iOS) with ImprovMX for domain routing
- 📮 Mail Server: Gmail
- 📝 Notes: Obsidian
- ✅ To-Do: TickTick
- 📷 Phone Photo Shooting: Default iOS Camera App
- 🟦 Photo Management: Lightroom or Google Photos
- 📆 Calendar: Fantastical with Google Calendar backend
- 📁 Cloud File Storage: Google Drive
- 📖 RSS: Feedbin (web + iOS)
- 🙍🏻♂️ Contacts: Cardhop (only because it comes bundled with my fantastical sub), rarely opened
- 🌐 Browser: Google Chrome
- 💬 Chat: iMessage + Whatsapp
- 🔖 Bookmarks: Raindrop.io
- 📑 Read It Later: Instapaper
- 📜 Word Processing: Google Docs
- 📈 Spreadsheets: Google Sheets
- 📊 Presentations: Google Slides
- 🛒 Shopping Lists: A frankenstein system made up of custom shortcuts + Apple Reminders + TickTick
- 🍴 Meal Planning: PlanToEat
- 💰 Budgeting and Personal Finance: I don't budget ever (used to use Banktivity in a previous life)
- 📰 News: Google News, but I rarely read news.
- 🎵 Music: Spotify
- 🎤 Podcasts: I barely listen, if I do then it's Spotify
- 🔐 Password Management: 1Password
Also see all the gear I use in Uses page.
- Previous: Lightroom CC to Google Photos