What's on my Phone 2026!

Name: What's on my Phone 2026!
Uploaded: 2025-11-26T19:27:30Z
Channel: Marques Brownlee

November 26, 2025 | 16 products mentioned

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Tech reviewer Marques Brownlee walks through his complete phone setup in 2026, detailing the apps and devices he relies on daily across his two-phone system of a OnePlus 15 (primary Android) and iPhone 17 Pro (secondary). The episode showcases how his app ecosystem and device preferences have evolved over five years, with significant changes driven by app discontinuations (like Dark Sky and Pocket) and new discoveries that better serve his workflow.

Key takeaways

• Brownlee maintains a dual-phone setup with one Android and one iPhone, with the Android serving as his primary device and main phone number.
• Task management is central to his workflow, with TickTick serving as his primary productivity app and even integrated into his iPhone's Action button for quick task creation.
• Reddit still has viable third-party app options like Relay for Reddit, which he pays $5/month for despite most other quality alternatives disappearing.
• CARROT Weather successfully replaced the defunct Dark Sky by cloning its superior layout while adding customization features and a snarky AI weather assistant.
• For Apple Watch users, Athlytic aggregates fitness data from Apple Health to replicate premium wearable tracking features without requiring an additional device like Whoop.
• Cross-platform file sharing via Blip enables quick link and file transfers between devices across distances, replacing traditional AirDrop functionality.
• Podcast consumption remains separate from music streaming, with Pocket Casts and emerging alternative Neuecast offering dedicated podcast app experiences.

Recommendations (16)

Arc uses

"I actually have the Arc Search here, the Arc browser app, which I no longer use on the desktop because they're kind of not paying attention to it anymore. But it is still kind of useful to have mob..."

Marques Brownlee · ▶ 3:46

OnePlus 15 uses

"Among all the stuff that I've tested this year, the phones that I've gone back to the most have been Galaxy S25 Ultra, then Pixel 10 Pro and now this OnePlus 15."

Marques Brownlee · ▶ 1:24

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iPhone 17 Pro uses

"I have actually mostly been sticking to the iPhone 17 Pro in Orange and not the Max."

Marques Brownlee · ▶ 1:57

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TickTick uses

"I basically live in the TickTick app. It's how I remember to do anything in life."

Marques Brownlee · ▶ 7:01

Relay for Reddit uses

"I have Relay for Reddit, which is a paid app. There's not that many good Reddit apps anymore for obvious reasons, but I do pay the five bucks a month for this one."

Marques Brownlee · ▶ 2:36

Notion uses

"Notion is the one that we use at the studio for keeping track of everything."

Marques Brownlee · ▶ 2:56

ChatGPT uses

"You've got Waze, you've got the ChatGPT app, the Google Home app."

Marques Brownlee · ▶ 3:32

Raindrop.io uses

"I use the Raindrop.io app to save links and I use that because the Pocket app also died this year. I used to use Pocket all the time for this and now it's gone. So I use Raindrop.io for the exact s..."

Marques Brownlee · ▶ 4:27

Blip uses

"It's kind of like a nice, cross-platform Airdrop and file sharing app, but it's actually more than just Airdrop because it can do it wherever your devices are. So I can Blip something to someone ac..."

Marques Brownlee · ▶ 5:02

Pocket Casts uses

"I also still use Pocket Casts for all of my podcasts on the go. There's a bunch of different podcasts apps, but that's the one I've stuck with."

Marques Brownlee · ▶ 5:20

CARROT Weather uses

"CARROT, over on the left is my new weather app of choice. Essentially what CARROT did was clone the Dark Sky layout that made it so good, but then also gave us a whole bunch of customization with o..."

Marques Brownlee · ▶ 7:36

Superhuman uses

"Copilot is a finance tracker app and then Superhuman for email."

Marques Brownlee · ▶ 7:35

Neuecast uses

"This one here is called Neuecast. I use Pocket Casts most of the time, but Neuecast is one that I found that might replace Pocket Casts for me. It's a really clean layout and just shows me my most ..."

Marques Brownlee · ▶ 9:25

Athlytic uses

"What Athlytic does is takes the information from the Apple Watch and from Apple Health, aggregates it all and gives me a lot of that same information that the Whoop would. I like Athlytic."

Marques Brownlee · ▶ 9:41

Flighty uses

"There's another app called Flighty, which is, as someone who's flown quite a bit lately, one of the most useful apps of all time. It basically just pulls the data directly from the source and often..."

Marques Brownlee · ▶ 10:58