It has been more than a year since Episode 097 of my podcast Hemispheric Views, where we held a Duel of the Defaults! competition.

Others have been updating their lists, one year on.

It seems appropriate that I should do the same.

If there is a change from my list last year, I’ve indicated it with a leading ✨.

Change? Category Default Comment on Change
✨ Mail Client FMail2 & Apple Mail Back to FMail2 app & no more MailMate
Mail Server Fastmail & Apple Mail
✨ Notes Obsidian for Work; Apple Notes for Home Different apps for different contexts
To-Do OmniFocus
iPhone Photo Shooting Camera.app
Photo Management Photos.app
Calendar BusyCal (plus Calendar.app)
Cloud file storage iCloud (plus OneDrive)
RSS Reeder with FreshRSS
Contacts Contacts.app
✨ Browser Vivaldi (plus Safari) Vivaldi is great, and Arc has been deprecated by the developer
Chat Signal
Bookmarks GoodLinks
✨ Read It Later GoodLinks I hardly read later anymore
Word Processing Pages
Spreadsheets Numbers (plus Excel)
Presentations Keynote
Shopping Lists AnyList
Meal Planning AnyList
✨ Budgeting & Personal Finance Actual Budget on PikaPods YNAB became overpriced
News Apple News (plus ABC RSS feed)
Music Apple Music (plus Spotify) I have access to a Spotify account for variety, now
✨ Podcasts PocketCasts I left Overcast after the disastrous rewrite

Six changes out of 23 categories. 26% of the apps have been changed. Yikes.