Aside from the device, there is no monthly fee or subscription to use the device or the various free streaming apps like Pluto, Tubi, or even the Roku stream itself. Our device did require registration and payment info as you can add and access “pay” apps like Netflix, etc. Of course YMMV.
Yes. We paid for a Weather channel just to get rid of the ads asking us to subscribe :-)
I’m a YouTube addict, and watch all kinds of interesting things. That’s free on Roku, no subscription.
I understand that ‘Roku TV’ is a different thing, though.