E-Ink Tablet Comparison Chart: Every Spec, Vendor-Cited

Method

How we built this e-ink tablet comparison chart

Most spec tables for e-ink devices are copied from other spec tables, which is how a wrong resolution or an old price survives for years. We wanted the opposite: a chart where you can click any row and land on the page the numbers came from. So the rules are strict, and they are worth knowing before you read a single cell.

• One source per row: the maker. Specs and prices come from the manufacturer’s own product page or store. The Source column links it, and its date is the day we read it.
• “Not stated” means the maker does not say. We leave the cell empty rather than fill it from a review. Amazon, for example, prints no pixel count or pixels-per-inch figure on its Kindle listings, so those cells say Not stated even though reviewers publish numbers.
• Prices are United States store prices for the standard bundle, in US dollars, on the date shown. Where a maker sells the same device in several regions from one store, we read only the US listing. Sale prices and coupons are left out.
• Stock is what the US store said that day: In stock, Sold out, or Pre-order. Orderable means the page let us configure and add to cart without printing a stock status.
• Resolution is written portrait, width first, because that is how you hold every writing tablet here and how a planner page is drawn.

You are welcome to quote any figure here, in editorial or commercial work. We ask for a link back to this page so readers can follow the row to the maker’s page and check the date for themselves. Each device row has its own anchor, so you can link a single device: the address of this page followed by # and the device, for example #remarkable-paper-pro.

Every row is re-read on the first working day of each month, and a new device gets its row the day it goes on sale. Prices move more often than that, so treat a price as true on its Source date and check the linked page before you buy. If a row is wrong today, tell us in the comments and we will re-read it and log the change.

If you are choosing a device rather than checking a number, our best e-ink tablet guide does the picking. This page is the reference sheet behind it.

Large writing tablets

E-ink writing tablets, 10 inches and up

The A4 and letter-paper class: the tablets people buy to replace a notebook at a desk. Almost every one here uses a 3:4 page, so one planner file fits most of them.

Small writing tablets

E-ink writing tablets, 7 to 8.5 inches

Paperback-sized tablets you still write on. The page shape splits here: the Paper Pro Move is a tall 9:16 screen, everything else stays 3:4.

Pocket readers

Pocket e-readers, under 6.5 inches

Phone-sized and smaller. These are for reading on the move; only the Palma pair takes a stylus, and only as an option.

E-readers

E-readers without a pen

The mainstream reading devices. None takes a pen, so a planner PDF opens for reading but not for writing.

Other e-paper

Other e-paper devices

E-paper that is not a tablet in the usual sense: wall dashboards, a phone, and a colour notebook from a smaller maker whose store we could only partly read.

Not in the chart yet

Devices we track but could not verify this month

A row goes in only when the maker’s own page gives us the figures that day. These were checked and left out, with the reason, so nobody mistakes an absence for an oversight.

• Mudita Kompakt (4.3-inch E Ink phone): The product page names the 4.3-inch E Ink screen but printed no price or pixel figures to our reader on 2 November 2026.
• Fujitsu Quaderno: Fujitsu's page refused our reads (HTTP 429) on 2 November 2026.
• Dasung: No product page with readable specs and a US price on 2 November 2026.
• Musnap (Air Pro, X, Aura C, Ocean, Neo): Every model read as sold out on musnap.com on 2 November 2026.
• Viwoods AiPaper Reader Colour: Listed but sold out on viwoods.com on 2 November 2026.
• Kobo Sage: Sold out at Kobo's US store on 2 November 2026.
• reMarkable 2: reMarkable's own page now titles it Discontinued and points to the Paper Pure.
• Boox Note Air4 C, Palma 2, Go Color 7 (first generation), Tab Ultra C Pro: Sold out on shop.boox.com (US) on 2 November 2026; their successors are in the chart.

Changelog

Changelog: what changed in the chart, by date

• 10 Nov 2026: Boox stock re-read on shop.boox.com: Palma 3 ($339.99) is back in stock in the US and Picco ($109.99) can now be ordered as a pre-order; the first-generation Go 10.3 ($379.99) is sold out in the US.
• 2 Nov 2026: First edition: 41 devices from 10 brands, every row read on the vendor's own page that day. US prices are the standard bundle on each maker's US store; Boox Picco is listed as shipping around November but not orderable in the US, and Note Mini C and Palma 3 are sold out in the US.

Template fit

What the template fit column tells you

A planner or notebook template is a PDF page. When its shape matches the screen, it fills the display edge to edge and your handwriting lands where the lines are. When it does not, the device either shrinks the page and leaves grey bands, or crops it and cuts off the top or the margin. Spec tables list screen size and resolution, but nobody turns that into the one number a template maker or buyer needs: the page shape.

Three shapes cover almost everything in the chart:

• 3:4, the shape of nearly every 7 to 13.3 inch writing tablet: reMarkable Paper Pro and Paper Pure, the Kindle Scribe family, every Boox Note and Go tablet, Supernote, iFLYTEK, Viwoods and Kobo. One well-made 3:4 file serves all of them, scaled up or down with nothing lost.
• 9:16, the reMarkable Paper Pro Move only. It is a tall, narrow screen, and a 3:4 page shrinks to fit with wide bands above and below. Templates for it need their own cut.
• 1:2, the phone-shaped Boox Palma 3, Palma 2 Pro and Viwoods AiPaper Reader. Mostly reading devices, but the Palma pair takes an optional stylus, and a full-page planner needs a 1:2 layout to be usable at that size.

For the exact PDF page size in points and millimetres, plus the margins each reading app crops, the e-ink PDF size reference lists every device we have measured; the PDF size links in the chart jump straight to the matching entry. The “our planner” links go to the template sets we cut for that device’s page, where we make one. Devices without a link have no planner of ours yet, which we would rather say than imply.

Reading the numbers

Four things the chart shows at a glance

Colour costs resolution on most colour screens. Every Kaleido 3 device in the chart lists two figures, 300 pixels per inch for black and white and 150 for colour, because the colour layer is a filter over a mono panel. reMarkable’s Canvas Color screens are built on E Ink Gallery 3, which carries colour in the ink itself, so the Paper Pro and Paper Pro Move list one figure. Our colour e-ink explainer goes into what that looks like on a page.

The pen is not always in the box. reMarkable, Kindle Scribe, Kobo Elipsa 2E, the Viwoods AiPaper and AiPaper Mini, the Boox Note line and the Tab X C include one. Supernote sells its pens separately, and so does Kobo for the Libra Colour. The smaller Boox Go and Palma models offer the stylus as a bundle option. Compare the price column with that in mind.

Operating system decides what else the device can do. The Boox, Viwoods, iFLYTEK and Bigme devices run Android and can install other apps. reMarkable runs its own Linux-based system, Supernote runs Chauvet, and Kindle and Kobo run their own reading software. A closed system is quieter; an open one runs the app you already use.

Sizes cluster. Large writing tablets sit at 10.3 to 11.8 inches, with the 13.3 inch Boox pair above them. Below that, there is a gap until the 7 to 8.5 inch group, then the phone-sized readers. If you want something between a paperback and a sheet of letter paper, the 7.8 to 8.52 inch models are the only options.

FAQ

Common questions, answered briefly

Spotted a device we missed, or a row that has moved since we read it? Leave a comment with the maker’s page and we will check it and add it to the changelog.

Related

Other questions, briefly answered