Published:Dec 10, 2025

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It’s been a year since I last updated my default apps list. The main driving force behind the update in 2025 is consistently the same app for multiple use cases and switching to Android from iOS as a primary device and eliminating some apps from my professional and personal workflows.

• 📨 Mail Client: Gmail
• 📮 Mail Server: Google
• 📝 Notes: Obsidian + Notes
• ✅ To-Do: Notes + Pen and paper + Linear for work
• 📷 Photo Shooting: Galaxy Z Fold 7 Camera app
• 🟦 Photo Management: Locally backing up in external drive on monthly basis
• 📆 Calendar: Google Calendar
• 📁 Cloud File Storage: Google Drive
• 📖 RSS: Reader
• 🙍🏻‍♂️ Contacts: Contacts app by Samsung
• 🌐 Browser: Chrome professionally on desktop and Android, Brave and Safari personal
• 💬 Chat: Slack, Telegram
• 🔖 Bookmarks: Readwise
• 📑 Read It Later: Readwise
• 📜 Word Processing: Obsidian + Notion
• 📈 Spreadsheets: Google Sheets
• 📊 Presentations: (rarely) Google Slides
• 🛒 Shopping Lists: N/A
• 🍴 Meal Planning: N/A
• 💰 Budgeting and Personal Finance: N/A
• 📰 News: N/A
• 🎵 Music: YouTube Music
• 🎤 Podcasts: YouTube Music
• 🔐 Password Management: 1Password
• 🧑‍💻 Code Editor: Cursor I’ve found that I used Cursor more than VS Code, both for work and personal projects
• 👾 Terminal Emulator: iTerm
• 🌌 (Annotated) Screenshots and quick videos: CleanShot X
• 🌤️ Weather: Weather by Samsung on Android

Now, there is one category I want to add myself:

• ✍️ Blogging: Built with Astro and hosted on Netlify

This covers app the list of apps that I use almost daily either for work or for personal use.

I’m a software developer and technical writer. On this blog, I share my learnings about both fields. Recently, I have begun exploring other topics, so don’t be surprised if you find something new here.

Currently, working on documentation at Expo.