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- The reMarkable Paper Pro offers a very responsive stylus input and excellent new color screen with backlight for distraction-free note-taking.
- While the hardware shows an impressive industrial design, the Paper Pro, as a luxury device, is not ideal for multitasking.
- The reMarkable Paper Pro comes at a high price with limited software versatility and pricey accessories, compared to more versatile options.
The reMarkable Paper Pro advances reMarkable’s mission to redefine E Ink tablets with a distraction-free focus. Priced at $579, it offers a color display, front lighting, and improved performance, positioning itself as a premium productivity tool—though not for everyone or every budget.
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reMarkable Paper Pro
The reMarkable Paper Pro is an immpressive entry in reMarkable’s e-ink tablet line with its new color e-ink display, front lighting, and upgraded writing latency, which offers an unparalleled distraction-free note-taking experience.
However, its high price tag, limited software versatility, and bulky accessories make it less appealing compared to more versatile options like the iPad Air. While the Paper Pro is ideal for professionals seeking focused productivity, its value is difficult to justify for first-time buyers, especially with the more affordable reMarkable 2 still available. Ultimately, it’s a luxury device for those who prioritize a tactile, analog-like experience over multitasking or app-rich environments.
- Very responsive stylus input
- Excellent new color screen with backlight
- Impressive industrial design
- Expensive base bundle with pricey accessories
- OS still feels very limited
Price and Availability
The reMarkable Paper Pro can be bought for $579 directly on reMarkable’s website as well as Amazon. Much like its predecessor, there are no colors for the device itself aside from the subtle warm-hued silver it comes in, and you’re limited to the sole 64GB configuration. The device comes with the regular Marker stylus, and you can choose to upgrade to the Marker Plus with eraser support for $50 or bundle along with different folios and accessories to further build out your tablet.
Specifications
- Brand
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reMarkable
- Screen
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11.8-inch color display
- Resolution
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2160 x 1620 with 229ppi
- Storage
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64GB
- Front Light
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Yes
- Battery
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5,030 mAh
- Weight
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525g
- Dimensions
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274.1 x 196.6 mm
A Familiar Design, Scaled Up

The first thing you’ll notice about the reMarkable Paper Pro is its larger size. At 11.8 inches, the display is 30% larger than the reMarkable 2’s 10.3-inch screen. This increase in screen real estate is excellent for annotating PDFs or writing notes. Still, it comes with a trade-off, which is the tablet’s weight of 525 grams, which makes it noticeably less comfortable to hold for extended periods one-handed.

Despite the added heft, the Paper Pro is still relatively light compared to traditional tablets, and it retains the minimalist aesthetic that’s become synonymous with reMarkable, which is the device’s thinness. At 5.1 mm, the Paper Pro continues to be one of the thinnest tablets on the market.

I will say that the reMarkable 2 still stands out as being thinner, lighter, and overall more compact than this latest iteration, but the design choices reMarkable decided to make with their first tablet to sport the “Pro” moniker live up to that name. This tablet gives off an industrial and utilitarian stance with squared-off edges and ridged sides that span the frame.
Accessories like the Marker Plus attach magnetically for easy storage and rubber pads on the back provide stability when you place the tablet on a flat surface. These work much better than the ones on the reMarkable 2.
The Display Finally Adds Color

The most significant upgrade to the Paper Pro is its Canvas Color display, now capable of rendering 20,000 colors at 229 ppi. As someone who has never used an E Ink display with color before, the first couple of times of seeing and interacting with it really felt magical. reMarkable is using E Ink’s Gallery 3 display for the Paper Pro, and it makes note-taking on an E Ink display much more engaging.
That said, the colors can look a bit muted—think pastels rather than vibrant hues. While this is sufficient for productivity applications like note-taking and the occasional highlighting, I think creatives looking for true-to-life colors may find it limiting.

Arguably, the biggest addition to the Paper Pro’s display over the reMarkable 2 is front lighting. This is an absolute game changer because it finally lets you use the device without having to rely on an external light source. I cannot begin to list the times I wish I could’ve used my reMarkable 2 in bed at night to read a book, only to realize I’d have to keep my room lights on if I wanted to actually see what was on the screen.

Overall, the Paper Pro’s implementation is solid, with an even distribution of light across the display. It’s much less harsh on your eyes in low-light environments compared to using something like an iPad, which is really nice. However, it lacks warm light adjustment, which has become a standard feature in E Ink devices like the Kindle Paperwhite, and I think it would have been an excellent further addition to reducing eye strain.
A Unique Writing Experience
Now, in terms of writing, if you’ve used a reMarkable tablet before, you’ll know its writing experience is almost second to none. The Paper Pro improves on this with 12ms latency, making it one of the most responsive E Ink tablets on the market. Writing feels natural, with strokes appearing instantaneously compared to the reMarkable 2.

It’s a really powerful idea to enable the act of handwriting and note-taking to merge with our modern systems of digital organization and manipulation without taking away the tactility and inherent boringness that can come from it. Yes, a blank slate with no apps or any external connections is very boring— but that’s the entire point of the reMarkable Paper Pro. It’s meant to be a digital notebook that takes you away from your distractions and lets you focus, and in that way, it’s quite effective.
It genuinely just feels like paper; from the friction the stylus creates on the screen to the sound of the strokes themselves, it’s a very bizarre experience to have a digital device feel so analog. Coming from an iPad writing experience, which does begin to wear you down over time, that feels very liberating.
Adequate Performance With Excellent Battery Life

Under the hood, the Paper Pro runs on a 1.8 GHz quad-core processor with 2 GB of RAM and 64 GB of storage. These upgrades result in noticeably smoother navigation and faster load times compared to the reMarkable 2, particularly for large PDFs. However, that isn’t saying much because ReMarkable’s OS remains narrowly focused on note-taking and PDF annotation, with no support for third-party apps or library integrations.

The reMarkable app, available across all major platforms, is an excellent tool for accessing and syncing documents and notes across devices, but it doesn’t do much else.
This simplistic approach to the company’s software feels like a double-edged sword because, while it ensures a distraction-free experience, it limits the device’s versatility compared to competitors like the Onyx Boox Note Air 3 C, which runs Android, and this is honestly my biggest point of contention with the Paper Pro and reMarkable’s broader software experience. It’s definitely an intentional choice that the company is making to drive home this idea of a uniquely distraction-free productivity environment. Still, sometimes, when you need modern, more complex tools to do meaningful work, simplicity becomes an obstacle.

It’s simply not the device for multitasking. For students, it’s really difficult to justify recommending a Paper Pro. As much as I would love to use this as my primary note-taking device when it comes to inevitably needing multiple files open at once, I can’t do things like split screen, and I can’t access new files without having to upload them to my reMarkable account and then waiting for them to sync before I have them on my tablet.

That said, the Paper Pro’s battery life continues to be a strong point. The 5,030 mAh battery delivers up to two weeks of regular use or 90 days on standby, and generally, I am getting just about a week and a half, with the backlight on for the majority of my usage. Additionally, the Paper Pro supports faster charging, with the device reaching 90% in just 90 minutes.
Very Pricey Accessories
Onto accessories, this is where I think this is an area where reMarkable goes a bit off the rails. Starting off with the Marker Plus stylus, priced at an additional $50 over the regular Marker, it adds the eraser functionality on the other side of the stylus, which is convenient and a natural way of interacting with the tablet but not essential given the software’s robust erasing tools, not to mention sometimes the eraser component sometimes registers as a stylus stroke.

However, the optional Type Folio keyboard, at a staggering $299, is blatant robbery. Firstly, the lack of a proper palm rest on this keyboard reminds me a lot of how it feels to use Apple’s Magic Keyboard for the iPad. This one for the Paper Pro is so shallow that it’s quite uncomfortable to rest your entire palm on it.

If you manage to somehow fit your palm on the folio, the position of your fingers will, without a doubt, be too high to type fast and comfortably, and to top it all off, the software to handle the typing experience is very frustrating. For one, documents don’t format text that well— you’re limited to where the text goes the way reMarkable sees fit, and you’re not able to freely change it around wherever you want the same way something like you could on an app like Notability or Goodnotes on the iPad.

Overall, for what you’re getting at the $299 price-point, I don’t think it’s worth it for a device that is inherently designed to be stylus-first.

Reviewing the reMarkable Paper Pro echoes my experience with the reMarkable 2—these devices offer a writing experience that feels genuinely tactile in ways that iPads and Android tablets can’t match and likely never will.
The core question is whether the Paper Pro’s effectiveness justifies its nearly $600 price tag. This question limits my ability to recommend it broadly, as its value proposition isn’t immediately apparent unless you’ve experienced it firsthand. An iPad Air with an Apple Pencil Pro costs about the same while offering apps, superior performance, and more storage.
For professionals, the Paper Pro excels at meeting notes and distraction-free reflection, though an iPad can also serve these purposes. To echo my reMarkable 2 sentiments: “To get less (in a world where you get more of everything, including distractions), the reMarkable [Paper Pro] perfectly bridges the gap between analog and digital experiences without distractions; you just have to pay for that luxury.” And with the more affordable reMarkable 2 still available, this new Paper Pro becomes harder to justify for first-time buyers.
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reMarkable Paper Pro
The reMarkable Paper Pro is an immpressive entry in reMarkable’s e-ink tablet line with its new color e-ink display, front lighting, and upgraded writing latency, which offers an unparalleled distraction-free note-taking experience.
However, its high price tag, limited software versatility, and bulky accessories make it less appealing compared to more versatile options like the iPad Air. While the Paper Pro is ideal for professionals seeking focused productivity, its value is difficult to justify for first-time buyers, especially with the more affordable reMarkable 2 still available. Ultimately, it’s a luxury device for those who prioritize a tactile, analog-like experience over multitasking or app-rich environments.