Why now
Why we keep getting asked for a Paper Pro Move alternative
The reMarkable Paper Pro Move shipped in late 2025 and immediately became the most interesting small-form e-ink tablet on sale. It’s a 7.3-inch color writing slate, 235 grams, two-week battery, with the Marker included for $449 in the US. That’s a real device with a real audience, and we still get the same three reasons readers ask for a reMarkable Paper Pro Move alternative every week.
The first is price. $449 with the Marker is fair for what reMarkable builds, but the small-tablet market it’s competing in starts at $279.99. The pocketable color e-ink category exists now, and reMarkable is at the top of it, not the middle. The second is the closed OS. Like every other reMarkable, the Move runs a custom Linux-based OS with no Android apps, no Kindle reader, no Notion, no Obsidian. If your reading or note-taking workflow lives in any of those, the Move is a very nice device with a wall around it. The third is the color trade. The Move uses reMarkable’s Canvas Color panel, which is genuinely good for handwriting and decent for charts and diagrams, but it isn’t comic-book color. If you want vivid color reading on a 7-inch screen, the Kaleido 3 panels in the same price tier render brighter, and Amazon’s Colorsoft technology renders book covers and graphic novels noticeably better.
None of these are dealbreakers on their own. Together they’re the reason “remarkable paper pro move alternative” is the third-most-searched query in this whole product category. People aren’t bouncing off the Move because it’s bad. They’re checking whether something else fits the same use case for less, with apps, or with a fuller color experience.
Criteria
What we looked for in a real Move alternative
The 7-to-8-inch e-ink tablet tier has its own physics. A device in this band has to be pocketable enough to leave the bag at home, light enough to hold one-handed for a long meeting, and capable enough that you don’t immediately wish you’d bought the bigger sibling. That’s a narrow corridor, and it cuts out a lot of devices that work fine at 10 inches. Five criteria do most of the work.
- Form factor. 7 to 8 inches is the band. Anything under 6 stops being a serious writing tablet; anything over 9 stops being pocketable. Weight under 250g is the comfort line.
- Writing feel at small scale. Pen latency and friction matter more on a small screen because handwriting is denser per square inch. The Move sets the bar here; an alternative has to come close.
- Ecosystem and apps. What you can read, sync, annotate, and export. The Move’s closed OS is the constraint to beat or accept.
- Color vs mono. Honest about whether the color you’d be giving up is load-bearing for your use case. Most of us write in black ink anyway.
- Lifetime cost. Sticker plus pen plus case over three years. The Move’s “Marker included” pricing is more honest than it looks at first glance, and some Paper Pro Move alternatives that look cheaper aren’t once the pen is in the basket.
Pick 1
Boox Go Color 7 (Gen II), the one for app-stack people
The Boox Go Color 7 (Gen II) is the closest like-for-like alternative to the Paper Pro Move. It’s a 7-inch color e-ink tablet running Android 13 with the Google Play Store, which means Kindle, Kobo, Libby, Notion, Obsidian, Drafts, and almost anything else you currently run on a regular tablet works here too. It weighs 195 grams, lighter than the Move’s 235, and the price is the headline: $279.99 for the device alone, $316.99 if you want the InkSense stylus included.
The display is a Carta 1200 panel with Kaleido 3 color overlay, 4096 colors, 300 PPI in mono and 150 PPI in color. That’s the same color tech you’ll find on most Kaleido devices in 2026, and it renders book covers, charts, and PDF highlights with more punch than reMarkable’s Canvas Color, even if the writing surface is glossier and a touch less paper-like. The InkSense Plus stylus runs 4096 levels of pressure with tilt support, which puts it firmly in serious-writing-tablet territory rather than note-taking-as-an-afterthought.
Where it loses to the Move: writing latency on Android e-ink is never quite as smooth as a purpose-built Linux writing OS. App refresh quirks, animation tearing, and the occasional need to optimize a specific app for e-ink are real, and they’re the price of openness. If your Move frustration was the missing apps or the price, the Go Color 7 (Gen II) is the device. If it was a calmer writing surface that doesn’t pull you into notifications, this isn’t.
Pick 2
Supernote A6 X2 Nomad, the one for writing purists
The Supernote A6 X2 Nomad is the writing-first answer to the same question. It’s a 7.8-inch monochrome e-ink tablet, slightly larger than the Move, weighs around 240 grams, and starts at $329 for the Crystal model with the Standard Pen and Leather Folio included. That bundle pricing is unusual, and it changes the value math: a Move at $449 plus a folio is roughly $500; a Nomad with everything you need is $329.
Two things put the Nomad on this list. First, the writing surface. Supernote uses a Carta 1300 panel paired with their own pen, and reviewers consistently describe the feel as more “ballpoint pen” than reMarkable’s “pencil,” with ceramic-tip pens that don’t wear down the way the Marker’s plastic tips do. Over three years the running cost difference is real, not theoretical, since reMarkable Marker tips are a recurring purchase. Second, the OS treats organization as a first-class feature. You can build clickable tables of contents, link between notebooks, star pages, and use custom headings. None of that is dramatic on its own, but for anyone who’s tried to find a specific note from six months ago on a reMarkable, it’s the difference between a working knowledge system and a deep folder of PDFs.
Where the Nomad loses to the Move: it’s monochrome, with no front light. In a dim room you’re working with the same constraints as paper. If you need color for diagrams, charts, or comic-book reading, this is the wrong device. And the Supernote ecosystem, while better than reMarkable’s on organization, is smaller on cloud sync and third-party integrations than the Boox Android stack.
Pick 3
Kindle Scribe Colorsoft, the one for readers who write
The Kindle Scribe Colorsoft isn’t a Move alternative on form factor; it’s a Move alternative on use case. It’s an 11-inch color e-ink tablet, much bigger than the Move, but if your real day involves more reading than writing with note-taking layered on top, the Move plus a Kindle subscription becomes a redundant stack. The Scribe Colorsoft does both jobs at one device. It launched in the US in December 2025, costs $629.99 for the 32 GB version and $679.99 for 64 GB, and the writing surface is genuinely good now, not the afterthought it was on the original Scribe.
For a Move shopper, the Scribe Colorsoft is the contrarian “you don’t actually need pocketable, you need a real reading library” pick. The Kindle library is a moat no other e-ink writing tablet can match, Audible is built in, and the annotation and search tools across long PDFs and ebooks are mature in a way reMarkable’s reader has never been. If half of what you’d use the Move for is reading novels, technical books, or research papers, the Colorsoft does that better at the same money you’d spend on a Move plus accessories.
Where it loses to the Move: it’s not pocketable, full stop. 11 inches is briefcase-sized, not jacket-pocket-sized. And it’s locked to Amazon’s ecosystem, which is the same critique the Move gets but pointed at a different fortress. We’ve gone deeper on this comparison in Kindle Scribe Colorsoft vs reMarkable Paper Pro, which is the head-to-head if you’re stuck between the larger reMarkable and the Scribe.
Pick 4
reMarkable Paper Pro 11.8 inch, when bigger is the answer
This pick will look strange in a post about Paper Pro Move alternatives, but the honest version of the question is sometimes whether you picked the wrong size reMarkable. The full Paper Pro is the 11.8-inch sibling. Same color Canvas Display, same OS, same closed ecosystem, same Marker. The only meaningful difference is screen real estate and weight, and at $629 the price gap to the Move is $180.
For anyone whose Move frustration is the screen size, the Paper Pro is the one-step-up answer that doesn’t make you start over with a new ecosystem. PDF reading at 11.8 inches is a different category of usable than at 7.3, full-page handwriting feels less cramped, and the larger battery handles longer days between charges. Templates that work on the Move work here too. Notebook structures sync. The Marker is the same Marker. If you’ve already invested in the reMarkable workflow and what you actually wanted was more screen, the Paper Pro is the device. We’ve also gone deep on the size question specifically in Paper Pro vs Paper Pro Move.
Where it loses to the Move: it isn’t pocketable, weighs more, and costs $180 more. Same closed app stack, same Canvas Color trade, same recurring Marker tip cost. If your Move frustration was anything other than the size, stepping up doesn’t fix it.
Verdict
Which reMarkable Paper Pro Move alternative we’d pick
The cleanest way to pick is to start with the Move limit you actually hit, not the device you’d like to want. Read across the row that matches yours.
| If your Move limit is | The pick | Price (USD) | Why |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price and missing apps | Boox Go Color 7 (Gen II) | $279.99 | Same 7″ color, Android 13, full Play Store, $316.99 with stylus |
| Want pure writing, color isn’t the point | Supernote A6 X2 Nomad | $329 | 7.8″ mono, ceramic pen tips, organization-first OS, pen + folio included |
| Reading library matters as much as writing | Kindle Scribe Colorsoft | $629.99 | Full Kindle and Audible libraries, color e-ink, mature reader (not pocketable) |
| Just wanted more screen | reMarkable Paper Pro 11.8″ | $629 | Same OS and Marker, full-size canvas, templates and notebooks port directly |
The Boox is the device we’d pick if the Move’s price felt steep and apps were the missing piece. The Nomad is the device we’d pick for sustained handwriting where the surface and the file system are the whole point. The Scribe Colorsoft is the device we’d pick if reading the Kindle library is half of what the tablet has to do. The Paper Pro is the device we’d pick if the only thing wrong with the Move was the screen size.
One device we deliberately didn’t include: the iPad mini. It’s a fine small tablet, but it isn’t an e-ink device, and the comparison is different enough that we wrote it up separately in Paper Pro Move vs iPad Mini rather than fold it in here. If you’re considering both an e-ink writing tablet and an LCD tablet, that’s the read.
For more on the Move itself, our Paper Pro Move review is the longer write-up, and Paper Pro Move templates covers the planner and notebook layouts that work natively at 7.3 inches. If you’re also weighing the broader lineup, our reMarkable alternatives piece is the parent post for the full-size question, and the reMarkable hub indexes everything else we’ve written about the brand.
If you’ve gone with one of these picks instead of the Move, drop the device and the reason in the comments and we’ll add it. The 7-to-8-inch e-ink writing band is moving fast right now. Boox is rumored to be working on a Go Color 7 Gen III, the Nomad has a successor on the roadmap, and reMarkable’s spring product cycle could yet bring a Move successor of its own. We’ll keep this list current as the picks change.