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reMarkable Paper Pro Move: Two-minute review
The reMarkable Paper Pro Move embodies everything I want in a writing tablet. The size is perfect. The features are focused. The writing experience is divine. This is the tablet I’ve been hoping somebody would create, and it’s both surprising and not surprising that reMarkable has created it.
It’s surprising because reMarkable doesn’t make many products. Its first mainstream (read: not a Kickstarter) tablet was the reMarkable 2, which launched in 2020, and the colorful follow-up, the reMarkable Paper Pro, arrived only last year. For reMarkable to launch another tablet so soon after its last one is uncharacteristic, and the Paper Pro Move must have been in the works since before the Paper Pro was announced.
I spent a few weeks using the reMarkable Paper Pro Move, and it mostly replaced the reMarkable Paper Pro that I use daily. The Paper Pro Move is much easier to carry – it even fits in the pockets of some of my pants. It’s taller than a Moleskine notebook, but also more narrow across and thinner front to back. I kept the Paper Pro Move enclosed in a Folio, and it was the perfect size and weight.
Having a reMarkable tablet that’s pocket-sized is a dream come true, because it means I can truly take my writing tablet everywhere. The Paper Pro and the Paper 2 tablets are too large to carry to the grocery store, for instance, or keep on a nightstand if you want an uncluttered look.
Journaling is easy enough with the bigger reMarkable tablets, but if you want to keep a food journal during the day, or track your workout progress at the gym, a smaller tablet like the Paper Pro Move is ideal.
The Paper Pro Move came with me everywhere, and I used it to do everything I do with my Paper Pro tablet, and so much more. Like most reMarkable owners, there are one or two other things I wish it could also do, but I love the simplicity the Paper Pro Move offers.
It’s unsurprising that the Paper Pro Move is such a fantastic experience, because the Paper Pro was nearly perfect. It delivered on reMarkable’s singular focus – a distraction-free sheet of digital paper that will help you gather your ideas and access them from nearly anywhere. No more and no less than that lofty ambition… now in color.
If you’re looking for an electronic reader like a Kindle, look elsewhere. If you want to run your favorite apps, or chat with an AI, or browse the web… this is the wrong tablet. The reMarkable Paper Pro Move is focused, refined, and it doesn’t do much, by design.
At least, if you’re new to reMarkable, it won’t appear to do much, but fans of previous reMarkable Paper tablets will find the most advanced reMarkable yet in the Paper Pro Move.
What doesn’t it do? There’s no clock, for instance. You won’t be hassled by the time. There are no alerts or notifications. It won’t ever buzz or vibrate for your attention. It also won’t serve you ads in any way, or spam you with messages you don’t care about.
What can it do that’s new to reMarkable? There are features coming to all reMarkable tablets, leading with the Paper Pro Move. Now reMarkable tablets will convert your text to type, and finally the search feature will look through the handwriting in your documents, not just typed text and the tags that you append.
Both of those features are powered by machine learning – aka AI – but you don’t have to care about AI on the reMarkable Paper Pro Move. It won’t offer to draw doodles for you with AI, and it won’t prompt you with insipid AI journal queries.
Nope, the reMarkable Paper Pro Move experience is restrained, and though most reMarkable fans have one or two features they wish were included (I’d kind of like to read my books on the tablet), reMarkable software remains distraction-free by design, and slow to evolve.
I hope it stays that way, because the reMarkable Paper Pro Move does just enough to be the perfect writing tablet. If you want more, keep looking. If you need less, the Paper Pro Move gets less just right.
reMarkable Paper Pro Move review: price and availability
- Very expensive – this is a luxury device, not a bargain
- The required subscription stings a bit at this price range
The reMarkable Paper Pro Move is an expensive writing tablet, there’s no doubt, and it justifies the price by giving you less, not more. It’s much less expensive than the reMarkable Paper Pro, which has a display that’s more than twice as large, and even more expensive than the reMarkable 2 monochrome writing tablet. Color is pricey, apparently.
The Paper Pro Move costs $449 / £399 for the bundle with a Marker and $499 / £439 for a bundle with a Marker Plus, which adds an eraser function to the opposing end (pricing for Australia is TBC). Is $50 / £40 worth having a dedicated eraser? If you’re asking that question, you’re considering the wrong tablet. This is a luxury device, not a practical tool.
It’s hard to measure the reMarkable Paper Pro Move against the competition, as there isn’t any real competitor at this size. The Amazon Kindle Scribe is the closest competitor on features, but the Kindle Scribe is a big and chunky (albeit gorgeous in green) reading tablet, and its price is very close to the Move at $399.99 / £379.99 / AU$649.
You can find smaller ereader tablets with a pen from Boox, like the Boox Go Color 7 Gen II that we recently reviewed. That tablet costs $299.99 / AU$439 (about £245), which might seem like a bargain compared to the Paper Pro Move, but read our review first – it’s not exactly our favorite writing tablet.
The Paper Pro Move launches with new folio options, and reMarkable supplied me with a leather folio and a recycled cloth folio. Surprisingly, I may prefer the cloth; it’s a fantastic color with a unique design that’s very appealing. There’s a discount on folio accessories at launch, but no cheap bundle with a folio.
The larger reMarkable tablets have a type folio keyboard option, but reMarkable has skipped this accessory for the Paper Pro Move, at least for now. I think it would be cool to see a mini keyboard for this tablet, but reMarkable had nothing to show me.
| Row 0 – Cell 0 |
reMarkable Paper Pro Move |
reMarkable Paper Pro |
reMarkable 2 |
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With Marker |
$449 / £399 / AU$TBC |
$629 / £559 / AU$929 |
$399 / £389 / AU$669 |
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With Marker Plus |
$499 / £439 / AU$TBC |
$679 / £599 / AU$999 |
$449 / £429 / AU$749 |
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reMarkable Connect |
$2.99 / £2.99 / AU $4.99 /month |
Row 3 – Cell 2 | Row 3 – Cell 3 |
reMarkable Paper Pro Move review: specs
The reMarkable Paper Pro Move uses a dual-core processor that runs at a higher clock rate than the quad-core processor in the larger Paper Pro. You can see the difference when you use the two tablets side by side, as I discuss in the Performance section below.
The Paper Pro Move isn’t as thin as other reMarkable tablets. The reMarkable 2 is still one of the thinnest tablets you can buy overall at 4.7mm, while the Paper Pro is a svelte 5.1mm. The Paper Pro Move is 6.5mm, which is just a bit thicker than an iPad mini (6.3mm), and thinner than an iPhone 16 (7.8mm).
The Paper Pro Move also weighs much less than an iPad mini, at 235 grams versus the iPad’s 293 grams. More importantly, it weighs less than a standard Moleskine notebook.
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Starting price |
$449 / £399 |
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Operating System (as tested) |
reMarkable OS – Linux-based |
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Chipset |
1.7GHz dual-core Cortex A55 chipset |
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Memory |
2GB LPDDR4 RAM |
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Storage |
64GB |
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Display |
7.3-inch Canvas Color, based on E Ink Gallery 3 |
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Weight |
235g |
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Battery |
2,334mAh |
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Supported File Formats |
PDF, ePUB |
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Supported Cloud Services |
Google Drive; Microsoft OneDrive; Dropbox; Slack |
reMarkable Paper Pro Move review: display
- Great for writing with a unique feel
- Caveats apply – this is not a bright, illuminated screen
The color E Ink display on the Paper Pro Move is probably not what you’re expecting, and while it’s a fantastic display for a writing tablet, you should be prepared before you buy one.
E Ink technology does not use light to create an image, it uses tiny particles that float closer or farther from the surface – including transparent color bits and reflective white particles. Because the particles actually move, E Ink displays react slower than a normal display – by a lot! You can see the ink move, and if you draw in color, you’ll see the display shift a few times as it forms the final image.
Some folks find this distracting – I think it looks cool. I love E Ink technology; it reminds me of steampunk and alternate future concepts that don’t rely on bright, irritating LCD and OLED panels. It’s not for everybody, though.
The reMarkable Paper Pro is admittedly dark to read. The panel is not a perfect white when it’s blank; it looks more like light-grey newspaper. There are lights on the Paper Pro Move – just like on the Paper Pro – but they’re not bright enough to even light the screen adequately at night. You’ll need extra light if you want to write in the dark (and you can’t use the Paper Pro Move as a flashlight to get to the bathroom – I tried).
If you’re expecting an iPad or even an e-paper display like the TCL NXTPaper, this will be a disappointment. If you’re looking for a screen that looks – and more importantly feels like real paper, this is the tablet for you.
Writing on the reMarkable tablet feels exactly like writing with a pen on paper. I feel like I’m using my favorite Pilot Precise roller ball pens on a thick Moleskine notebook. When the results appear, looking remarkably like ink on paper and not bright lights on a display, the effect seems magical.
I’m astonished that reMarkable continues to refine its writing experience with each new device. While reMarkable tablets become even more pleasing and paper-like, the competition… doesn’t exist? It doesn’t even seem like any other tablet maker cares about the feel of writing and making its tablets feel like pen and ink on the page. So reMarkable is only improving to impress itself and its return customers.
reMarkable Paper Pro Move review: Design
- Tall and thin like a great reporter’s notebook
- Pocketable, even inside a folio case
The reMarkable Paper Pro Move is a thin and very lightweight writing tablet that feels incredibly solid for its subtle heft. I had no trouble holding the tablet in the palm of my left hand and writing comfortably across the whole page with my right. Then I just tucked the tablet into the back pocket of my jeans.
I’ve always wanted a writing tablet like this. The Kindle Paperwhite might be a good candidate for a pen some day, but it’s wider than the reMarkable Paper Pro Move, and just a bit harder to stuff in a pocket, especially with a nice cover.
The Paper Pro Move fit easily in my larger pockets, even with the leather or recycled cloth cover attached. I kept a cover on my device because it’s looks great and keeps the pen in place, not because I was worried about durability. The Paper Pro Move feels very sturdy, even though it sadly lacks the IP water and dust protection you’ll find on a smartphone or a fancy Samsung Android tablet.
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There’s only one button on the Paper Pro Move – the power button – because the tablet doesn’t have speakers. It doesn’t make any noise, so there’s no need for volume rockers. There’s a USB-C port for charging on the bottom.
The pen attaches magnetically, and I need a case to feel secure with this arrangement or else I’m sure to lose my pen. The pen is proprietary technology, like the Paper Pro tablet, and not common EMR technology, like the reMarkable 2 tablet and the Samsung S Pen, so it’s expensive to replace.
reMarkable Paper Pro Move review: Software
- There’s more things it can’t do than things it can – by design
- New AI features are disappointing, but could be improved easily
The easiest way to think about the reMarkable Paper Pro Move is as digital paper, and little more. You can create notebooks, then save them in folders. You can also insert tags throughout notebooks to make them easier to search.
What reMarkable does best, besides the luxurious hardware and writing experience, is the background templates it offers for your writing. The selection is enormous, better than you’ll find on the Amazon Kindle Scribe or other writing tablets. That selection is growing fast, too – but there’s a catch.
Sadly, reMarkable has become friendly with two of the evil villains of the digital world: subscriptions and AI. These are bugbears for the Move tablet.
Some of the best features on the reMarkable Paper Pro Move require a monthly subscription. It isn’t much money – $2.99 / £2.99 / AU$4.99 per month – and it adds good value if you use the new templates reMarkable offers only to subscribers, called Methods. But it stings that this ultra-simple tablet needs a subscription plan at all.
Other new features will use AI machine-learning tools, but these don’t run on the Paper Pro Move. If you want to convert your handwriting to typed text, that happens in the cloud.
The handwriting recognition results ranged from useless to dangerously hilarious. When I wrote a checklist of items and asked the tablet to convert my writing, I got a paragraph of items, not a list.
The reMarkable AI doesn’t format text neatly. In fact, instead of converting my writing on the page where I wrote it, the tablet would create a new page with my converted text. I suppose reMarkable expects me to cut and paste those results into the right spot. No thanks; I’ll stick to writing.
The actual results were bad, too. My handwriting can be terrible, but I’ve been a teacher and I know students can read my scratch off a blackboard, so it’s not a terminal case.
The remarkable Paper Pro Move got many words wrong, and in one case it got R-rated. Instead of a “Vertical kitty” toy from my list, it typed “vertical titty.”
Ummm, what the what!?! You can’t say that, reMarkable tablet! You can’t make a mistake that offers one of the seven words you can’t say on television! Even on a simple writing tablet like this, AI proves once again that it can be horrible and useless.
Since this happens in the cloud, I’m hopeful that reMarkable can just hook up with a better service. Handwriting recognition is a useful tool for a writing tablet, and it drives better features like searching through handwritten text.
I’ve seen much better AI-based handwriting recognition on the Kindle Scribe, so if your main goal is converting your scribbles into type, that’s the tablet to choose.
reMarkable Paper Pro Move review: Performance
- Best performance of any reMarkable tablet so far
- It doesn’t do much, so there isn’t much to worry about
The reMarkable Paper Pro Move is not an Android tablet running apps. Still, it has a unique interface, and the display technology from E Ink is very complicated and requires some formidable hardware development. I’m happy to say the Paper Pro Move is the most responsive and fastest reMarkable tablet I’ve used, for whatever that’s worth on a writing tablet.
That means the tablet opened faster from sleep, and it was more responsive to typing from the moment I tapped out my passkey. Menus respond faster to touch, and I can pan and zoom on documents faster on the Paper Pro Move than on the Paper Pro tablet. The difference is noticeable.
If you’re just writing with the tablet the response feels instantaneous – there’s no perceivable delay between touching the Market Plus to the screen and the E Ink appearing. If you write calligraphy or draw with the paint brush tools, you’ll appreciate the responsiveness.
Of course, adding color adds a delay, but this happens after you lift the pen. Some folks have told me they find this too distracting, as there’s a slight flash of color once or twice as the different layers activate. I actually find the effect kind of cool-looking, but your mileage may vary.
reMarkable Paper Pro Move review: Battery
- Doesn’t last as long as the big reMarkable tablets
- Still lasts for days and days, not just hours
I’m not disappointed with the battery life I got from the reMarkable Paper Pro Move, but it didn’t blow me away like the Paper Pro. I’ve had the tablet for more than two weeks and I’ve charged it twice, including the initial charge time. That’s pretty great for modern electronics.
Of course, the reMarkable Paper Pro lasted through my entire review period without needing a recharge, but that tablet is more than twice the size – and weight – of the Paper Pro Move. I think the trade-off is fair. I still get more than a week of battery life, and I can stuff this tablet in my back pocket.
It’s possible the Paper Pro Move died faster because I used it more. Since it’s so portable, it was easier to use in more places, like I said. If I used it as sparingly as I used my Paper Pro, it may have lasted another few days.
The reMarkable Marker has a battery inside, which makes it different than the Marker on the reMarkable Paper 2 tablet or styluses for other tablets like Samsung’s Galaxy Tab S11 devices. I would rather not have another battery to charge, but the Paper Pro Move juices up the pen when you attach it magnetically to the side. It charges very quickly, too, in case you let the pen battery drop to zero.
Should I buy the reMarkable Paper Pro Move?
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Attribute |
Notes |
Score |
|---|---|---|
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Value |
It’s expensive, but not shockingly so. Still, it’s price is more for the luxury than for a wealth of features on offer. |
3/5 |
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Dsplay |
A display that makes writing feel like pen on paper. The unusual refresh may be offputting to some, but I found it charming. It’s not bright enough for nighttime writing. |
5/5 |
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Design |
Thin and light enough to keep in the back pocket of my 501 jeans, but big enough to be useful for journaling and all sorts of writing tasks. |
5/5 |
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Software |
Simple and elegant at best, with tons of template options and perfect writing tools. At worst, you’re paying subscription fees and relying on AI for handwriting recognition – yuck. |
3/5 |
|
Performance |
Perfectly responsive writing, and now the interface responds faster to touch than any previous reMarkable tablet could. It keeps things simple and that pays off in performance. |
5/5 |
|
Battery |
Amazing battery life means you can forget to charge it for days, it lasts at least a week after tons of writing. Too bad you have to charge the pen, but at least it charges very quickly. |
5/5 |
Buy it if…
Don’t buy it if…
Also consider
| Row 0 – Cell 0 |
reMarkable Paper Pro Move |
Amazon Kindle Scribe (2024) |
reMarkable Paper Pro |
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Price |
$449 / £399 |
$399.99 / £379.99 / AU$649 |
$629 / £559 / AU$929 |
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Price for premium edition |
$499 / £439 / AU$TBC (Marker Plus) |
$449.99 / $429.99 / AU$729 (64GB, Premium Pen) |
$449 / £429 / AU$749 (Marker Plus) |
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Display |
7.3-inch Canvas Color, based on E Ink Gallery 3 |
10.2-inch E Ink Carta 1200 |
11.8-inch Canvas Color, based on E Ink Gallery 3 |
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Supported files |
PDF, ePub |
PDF, unprotected MOBI, PRC natively; PDF, DOCX, DOC, HTML, EPUB, TXT, RTF, AAX (Audible audio format) |
PDF, ePub |
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Storage |
64GB |
16GB |
64GB |
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How I tested the reMarkable Paper Pro Move
I’ve had the reMarkable Paper Pro Move for almost three weeks of testing, during which time I used it as my primary writing tablet for note taking, making lists, and journaling. I use a writing tablet daily, multiple times a day, even when I am not reviewing a new tablet, so you can trust I have experience with these devices.
I used the reMarkable Paper Pro Move to write notes for work that I would then send to my Google Drive, my work phone and tablet, and my laptop web browser. I sent web pages and documents to the reMarkable Paper Pro Move from my web browser and from the app. I shared doodles and notes on Slack using the new Slack integration.
I paid for a reMarkable Connect subscription to test reMarkable’s new Methods templates, as well as the advanced sharing features it offers. I also tested handwriting recognition by connecting the reMarkable to my home Wi-Fi.
For battery testing, I charged the reMarkable Paper Pro Move completely on the morning after I first received it, then measured the days until it ran out of battery. In 20 days of testing the tablet, I charged it twice.
I used the reMarkable Paper Pro Move in a leather folio and cloth folio provided by reMarkable. To keep the tablet secret and because I liked the feel, I kept the tablet in the folio for the entire review period.
Read more about how we test.
- First reviewed: September 2025
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