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# Default Apps
- URL: https://www.chamline.net/default-apps/
- Published: 2023-11-04T22:07:45.000Z
- Updated: 2024-07-07T14:45:47.000Z
- Author: Habib
- Tags: Technology, Apple

[The Hemispheric Views podcast episode 097—Duel of the Defaults!](https://listen.hemisphericviews.com/097?ref=chamline.net) — The fun game show-styled episode in which the podcast host judges and awards points to podcast guests based on their chosen default apps spread across carefully selected categories.

[Fans of the show take to their blogs and share the default apps](https://defaults.rknight.me/?ref=chamline.net) they use based on the episode's chosen categories. What I didn't expect to discover was the sheer number of users who use default Apple apps on iOS, iPadOS and Mac.

![Screenshot of a tweet in which I shared a list of third party apps/services I stopped using in favour of Apple default native apps.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/e6/51/e651cf54-17b9-4578-bd5c-1392f8f10905/content/images/2024/01/1E0A5802-A135-4E45-8F98-A3DF99580550-1-1.jpeg)

Screenshot of a tweet in which I shared a list of third party apps/services I stopped using in favour of Apple default native apps.

Here are the current default apps I use based on the categories selected by the Hemispheric Views podcast Duel of the Defaults!:

📧 Mail Client: Apple Mail

📮 Mail Server: iCloud

📝 Notes: Apple Notes

☑️ To-Do: Apple Reminders

🤳 iPhone Photo Shooting: iOS Camera

🎞️ Photo Management: Photos on iOS/iPadOS

📅 Calendar: Apple Calendar

☁️ Cloud file storage: iCloud Drive / Files app

📇 Contacts: Contacts

🌐 Browser: Safari on iOS/iPadOS

💬 Chat: iMessage, WhatsApp

📑 Bookmarks: Safari, Apple Notes

📚 Read It Later: Reading List

🛒 Shopping Lists: Apple Reminders (via Mela)

🍱 Meal Planning: [Mela](https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/mela-recipe-manager/id1548466041?ref=chamline.net)

🗞️ News: RSS via [Reeder 5](https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/reeder-5/id1529445840?ref=chamline.net), Apple News+

🎧 Music: Apple Music

🎙️ Podcasts: Apple Podcast

🔐 Password Management: iCloud Keychain

🏦 Budgeting & Personal Finance: [Expenses](https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/expenses-spending-tracker/id1492055171?ref=chamline.net)

🛜 RSS: [Reeder 5](https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/reeder-5/id1529445840?ref=chamline.net) with iCloud as the backend.

The categories also included Word Processing, Spreadsheets and Presentation, neither of which I don't currently use, but if I did… .