State of the Apps (2025)

Published: 21/12/2025

• Email: Spark Mail
• Notes: Apple Notes
• To-do: Linear
• Photo shooting: Fujifilm XE-4, iPhone 16 Pro
  • Lenses: XF 35MM F1.4, XF 27MM F2.8
• Photo management: Apple + Google Photos (Experimenting with Ente!)
• Photo editing: Apple Photos
• Calendar: Cron (I still refuse to call it Notion Calendar)
• Cloud storage: Google Drive
• Search engine (new category!): Kagi
• RSS: NetNewsWire
• Contact management: Google Contacts
• Browser: Orion by Kagi (macOS and iOS), Arc for Google Meet
• Chat: Discord, WhatsApp, Signal (in order of usage)
• Bookmarks: Bookmarks in Orion, trying out Raindrop
• Read later: Later (an app I'm building), Luego (an app by my friend Arun)
• Spreadsheets: Google Sheets
• Word processing: Obsidian
• Presentations: Apple Keynote
• Shopping list: Apple Notes
• Budgeting and finance: Google Sheets
• News: Kagi News, YouTube, other people
• Music: Spotify
• Podcasts: Pocket Casts
• Password management: 1Password
• Books: Physical books and Kindle
• App launcher: Raycast (Pro!)
• Code editor: Android Studio and Zed
• Terminal: Ghostty
• Git client: Sublime Merge
• AI assistant: Claude Code, Kagi Assistant, Claude Web

My app of the year was NetNewsWire.

Last year's list of app is here.

More lists of (default) apps, documented by Robb Knight here.