I saw that people are posting the apps they have installed on their Mac and thought I’d put my collection out there too. After throwing together my list, I realized that this exercise is based on a podcast episode where people were competing to see who used the most default apps. That’s cute, but I just want to share what I’m using and see what others are using. This is why my list is different than everyone else’s. I also realize some of these aren’t Mac applications, but I use them just like I do an app and figure they are worth mentioning.
 Activity Tracking: | Strava, WorkOutDoors, Apple Workout, Footpath |
 A.I.: | OpenAI, Perplexity, Raycast |
 Air Quality: | PurpleAir/Paku, IQ Air, Netatmo |
 App Store: | Setapp, Apple App Store |
 Audio: | Adobe Audition |
 Backups: | Rewind |
 Battery Management: | AlDente |
 Bookmarks: | Pinboard |
 Browser: | Google Chrome |
 Calculator: | Calcbot |
 Calendar: | Fantastical |
 Camera: | Apple Camera app, Sony Alpha 6400 |
 Chat: | iMessage, Slack |
 Clipboard Manager: | Paste |
 Cloud file storage: | Mega, Google Drive, iCloud Drive |
 Code: | BBEdit |
 Contacts: | Apple Contacts |
 Delivery Tracking: | Deliveries |
 Design: | Adobe Photoshop |
 Dictionary: | LookUp |
 Home Networking: | UniFi, WiFiman |
 Launcher: | Raycast |
 Location Tracking: | Swarm, Checkie, Arc |
 Mail Client: | Spark Mail |
 Mail Server: | Custom domain, Fastmail |
 Mastodon: | Ivory |
 Music: | Spotify |
 News: | Google searches |
 Notes: | Notion, Drafts, Scrap Paper |
 Password Management: | 1Password |
 Personal Finance: | StockCharts, One Finance, Charles Schwab |
 Photo Management: | Apple Photos iOS app |
 Photo Processing: | Adobe Lightroom |
 Podcasts: | Pocket Casts |
 Presentations: | Google Slides |
 Read Later: | Omnivore |
 Robocall Blocker: | Robokiller |
 RSS: | IFTTT (RSS to email), Reeder |
 Screen Capture: | CleanShot, Screen Studio |
 Search: | |
 Spreadsheets: | Google Sheets |
 Timer: | Gestimer |
 To-Do: | OmniFocus |
 Translation: | DeepL |
 Travel Directions: | Waze, Google Maps, Scenic |
 Travel Planning: | Furkot |
 Upload: | Transmit |
 Video Editing: | Adobe Premiere |
 VPN: | Cloudflare Warp |
 Watch Later: | YouTube, Notion |
 Weather: | Carrot Weather, Windy, Weather Underground, Apple Weather, Netatmo, IQ Air, Sunset Wx |
 Website Builder: | Adobe Dreamweaver |
 Word Processing: | Drafts, Google Docs |