App Defaults at the End of 2025

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Robb Knight has a page listing people's descriptions of their default app choices, and he just did an update for this year. I thought it sounded fun, so here are some of mine as of the end of 2025:

  • Adblocker: uBlockOrigin
  • Browser: Firefox; FFUpdater to keep vanilla Firefox for Android updated without the Play Store
  • Calendar: Fossify Calendar, DAVx5, macOS Calendar.app
  • Chat: Signal
  • Cloud File Storage: Mega
  • Contacts: GrapheneOS Contacts app
  • E-Books: Readest
  • File Sharing: LocalSend, OpenMTP, Syncthing
  • Local Backups: FreeFileSync
  • Mail Client: Mailspring on desktop, Thunderbird on mobile
  • Maps: Organic Maps
  • Music: Auxio, Lollypop, Music.app
  • Notes: Obsidian and Markdown-Oxide/Neovim
  • Password Management: Bitwarden
  • Podcasts: AntennaPod
  • RSS: NetNewsWire, Capy Reader
  • To-Do: Same as notes for writing the lists; taskfinder for tracking/organizing
  • Two-Factor Authentication: Aegis
  • Weather: Breezy Weather
  • Word Processing, Presentations, and Spreadsheets: LibreOffice

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