Default Apps (2025)

Just an update to the apps I currently have set as the default on my laptop and my phone!

It’s been a couple of years since I’ve updated my default apps list, so I thought I may as well do it. My previous list is still available if you want to check it out as well! See my uses page for more.

One of the notable changes is the lack of any Nextcloud services. My Raspberry Pi is still not online, and I haven’t really missed it that much. Most of my file management is now done on my computer with local files, and I sync stuff with Syncthing to my pho, and I sync stuff with Syncthing to my phone.

Other changes would be browsers, and a couple new sections I saw some people add, like blogging and social media.

Here we go:

• 📮 Mail Server: Disroot.org, Proton.me
• 📨 Mail Client: Thunderbird, K-9 Mail
• 📝 Notes: Joplin, Signal (Note to Self)
• ✅ To-Do: Signal (Note to Self)
• 📱 Launcher: KISS Launcher, Rofi
• 📷 Photo Shooting: Google Camera
• 🟦 Photos Management: Fossify Gallery
• 📆 Calendar: Fossify Calendar
• 📅 Calendar Backend: Local-only
• 📁 Cloud File Storage: Syncthing
• 📖 RSS: FreshRSS, Newsboat, Capy Reader
• 🙍🏻‍♂️ Contacts Management: Fossify Contacts
• 🔎 Browser: Zen Browser, Fennec
• 💬 Chat: Signal, WhatsApp, Threema, Discord
• 🔖 Bookmarks: Zen Browser
• 📑 Reading: Mihon, KOReader
• 📚 Book tracking: Bookwrym, The Storygraph, This site
• 🍿 Media Tracking: Letterboxd, Backloggd
• 📜 Word Processing: Neovim, Markdown
• 📈 Spreadsheets: Google Sheets
• 📊 Presentations: Google Slides
• 📰 News: FreshRSS, The Verge, 404 Media, etc.
• 🎵 Music: YT Music, RiMusic, BlackPlayer
• 🎼 Music scrobbler: Listenbrainz, Simple Scrobbler
• 🎤 Podcasts: AntennaPod
• 🔐 Password Management: KeepassXC, KeepassDX, Aegis OTP
• 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Social Media: Fosstodon, Polymaths Social
• 🔍 Search Engine: DuckDuckGo
• 📝 Blogging: Jekyll, Vercel

What are yours?

Changelog

- New sections: Social Media, Blogging, etc
- Added Neovim
- Replaced FeedMe with Capy Reader
- Replaced Tachiyomi with Mihon
- Replaced Firefox/Mulch with Zen Browser/Fennec
- Replaced Spotify with YT Music.
- Replaced Simple Apps (calendar, gallery) with Fossify forks
- Replaced Mi Cam with Google Camera (modded apk)
- Removed Tasks.org
- Removed Shotwell
- Removed Khal
- Removed MEGA
- Removed Nextcloud from most defaults.
- Removed sections: Shopping List, Meal Planning, Budgeting

This is post 56 of #100DaysToOffload

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