I use Obtainium (available in F-Droid) alongside F-Droid since both have auto-updates
this is still tolerable to the old days of updating manually
biggest upside is I can update Tubular/Newpipe faster via Obtainium while F-Droids build system takes days
you might be interested in pinchflat or tubearchivest which are made for this task
thats a big hit for non-commercial laser cutting enthusiasts
Between Visicut and Lightburn, the later was miles away even with its quirks and testing all sorts of stuff with boxes.py was a lot of fun
bummer
If you use KDE Plasma and want an app which looks like your other Qt apps: https://apps.kde.org/keysmith/