Erez Hod

Sketch used to be the forefront in UI/UX design for me since version 1.0. But since Figma took over, it brought a lot of more innovative and convenient tools so unfortunately I had to ditch Sketch, even though the native desktop performance and user interface were no less than awesome.

Figma has very innovative features, but most of the time I find it very buggy and clunky. Probably it is the nature of current web-based apps, even when wrapped in Electron for the desktop. Sketch is much more performant and stable, but unfortunately, lacks a lot of necessary features that Figma currently has.

A great versatile tool for virtually every development platform. The fact that it's a web app wrapped in Electron is a bummer, but forgivable in this case since it works very well most of the time.

I very much dislike WhatsApp. Especially compared to Telegram. It's has not been innovative in any way since 2014. All of their new features are basically copy-cat from other services, and even when implemented, they don't work very good. The desktop client is an extremely slow Electron app. And the worst thing is that I have to backup WhatsApp manually to my own cloud service which is pretty stupid.

I love TablePlus. It does everything I need from a database client and the user experience is very good. The fact that a native desktop client for database management like this exists in 2023 is bringing me pure joy. Thank you for this!

GitHub offers a great dominant service in the source-control world for developers. I use this for Open Source contributing and also private repositories for my business. Great value, great service.

Zoom is fine. The user interface and experience is very sub-par and weird, but it does the job. Only wish the free version would allow 1-on-1 calls with no time limit like Google Meet does.

Spotify most definitely has the best music streaming user experience. Whether it's managing playlists or finding new music to listen it, it does it great. I only wish it had the lossless format streaming option like Apple Music does. The difference in audio quality is very noticeable on most of my devices.

The best messaging app, period. Always implementing new innovative features in the instant messaging world, keeps on improving day-by-day and doing it flawlessly. The native desktop macOS app is a blast to use (especially compared to the horrible WhatsApp one). The experience is fast and seamless. It makes me happy to be a Premium subscriber. Thank you so much!