App Defaults in 2023
A list of default apps I use for various tasks at the end of 2023
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Inspired by others I've seen across various blogs and on Mastodon, here's a list of default apps I've been using at the end of 2023. I doubt this will change much year-to-year, but we'll see what next year brings.
- Email: Gmail
- Calendar: Google Calendar
- Documents/Cloud Storage: Google Drive
- PDF Reader: SumatraPDF
- Photos: Google Photos
- Password Manager: Bitwarden
- Notes/Lists/Tasks: Google Keep, Tasks.org (Android)
- Terminal: Windows Terminal, Termux (Android)
- Text Editor: Visual Studio Code
- Screenshots: ShareX
- Browser (Desktop): Firefox Developer Edition, Chrome (Google apps only)
- Browser (Mobile): Fennec, DuckDuckGo, Cromite, Chrome (Google apps only)
- I use URLCheck to pick which app to use when tapping a link
- Search Engine: DuckDuckGo
- Chat: Google Messages, Discord, GroupMe
- Music: YouTube Music, MusicBee, Symfonium (Android)
- Podcasts: Pocketcasts (Android)
- Audiobooks: Audiobookshelf
- Ebooks: Calibre
- RSS Reader: FreshRSS
- Mastodon: Moshidon (Android)
- Hacker News: Harmonic (Android)
- Twitch: Xtra (Android)
- Habits: Loop Habit Tracker (Android)
- File Browser: Solid Explorer (Android)
- Ad Blocker: uBlock Origin, NextDNS
- VPN: Mullvad, Google One, Tailscale
See also my Uses page for hardware and other software.