Does anyone know an example of an instant app? I’d like to see what this is before it gets shut down.

If you buy from a reputable seller with a good free return policy, at worst you’ll have to send the device back. If you have access to a credit card or PayPal, it’s a good idea to use them, in case the seller becomes unresponsive.

Your entry for Omnivore says the link to the hosted version is broken. That’s because it shut down at the end of last year.

It was a good option for read-it-later, whereas most of the of the bookmarking self-hosted apps seems more focused on saving and sorting links.

Is it good for read-it-later functionality, for example to read from a phone without online connectivity?

If you have access to a Mac, use the Apple AAC encoder. It will give you better results than libfdk_aac, which itself is much better than the ffmpeg built-in aac encoder.

MiXplorer is great! I’ve been using it for several years, and it always does everything I want and much more.

In fact, scrolling is the main difference to me. App opening/closing animations also appear smoother, but I find you get used to those much easier if you go back to 60 Hz after having used 120 Hz. Scrolling, however, isn’t the same…

I don’t like it because it has become very iPhone-like in the bad ways, meaning it takes several clicks to do simple, common tasks. I much prefer Samsung’s OneUI for how easily accessible everything is.

F-Droid is great! The official client is not the most user-friendly, but Droidify is a great alternative.

You can also look at Obtanium to download binaries straight from the applications’ developers instead of those built by F-Droid.