So I created Enkel originally to fulfil my own desire for a clean and simple way to consume news. Having tried a few platforms, I found them to be cluttered and distracting. Further more, some placed ads among feeds and offered no methods of reading the article without visiting the source site and being bombarded with ads, popups, video etc. The free tiers were rather limited, bugged you to upgrade and have fallen into the current trend monitizing user data.

The intial offering of Enkel is somewhat less than other competitors, which is why it comes at a significantly lower price. However it's in continous development with new features being implemented regularly.

Enkel isn't the right tool for everyone, and that's okay. It's intedned for those who want a clean and simple way to consume written media regularly without distraction.

I also use the free version of https://feedly.com/ . Can't see what this has over that for $2 a month.

Feedly is about the only app that I have left to get rid of (Android) that pings Facebook when you open it

I can't even create an account with an email in Feedly. And Inoreader has recently updated design and became unusable: too much bells and whistles.

So, there's no more simple and clean rss-readers that I know of.

> I can't even create an account with an email in Feedly.

umm, you can? It isn't obvious from the UI, but you can definitely create one - https://feedly.com/v3/auth/login?newUser=true