reMarkable Paper Pro Move Alternative: 4 Real Options

What counts

What a remarkable paper pro move alternative actually has to do

The reMarkable Paper Pro Move is an 7.3-inch portable variant of the full-size Paper Pro: color Canvas display, Marker included, reMarkable OS (locked, no apps), and a price tag around $449. The form factor is the point. It fits a coat pocket, weighs roughly 250 grams, and trades the 11.8-inch real estate for actual portability. Any honest remarkable paper pro move alternative has to land in roughly the same physical size and roughly the same writing-first job. The 11-inch Paper Pro alternatives are a different post; our reMarkable alternatives pillar covers that decision instead.

So the right remarkable paper pro move alternative depends on which Move trade-off pushed you to look for one. If the price hurts, Boox Go Color 7 is the cheapest direct e-ink color stylus tablet at the same size. If the closed OS hurts, iPad mini with Apple Pencil opens a full computer. If you want color e-ink plus apps in a pocket, the Boox Palma 2 Pro delivers both. If you want reMarkable’s pen feel and quiet OS at the same price as the Move, a refurbished reMarkable 2 gives you 10.3 inches of mono Canvas for the same money. Four picks; four trade-offs; no single winner.

Compared

The four picks at a glance

None of these are strictly “better” than the Move. Each is better at one specific thing. Pick by which thing matters most.

The four picks

The four remarkable paper pro move alternative picks, in detail

1. Boox Go Color 7, the cheapest direct match

The Boox Go Color 7 Gen II is the closest like-for-like remarkable paper pro move alternative on the market today: 7-inch Kaleido 3 colour e-ink, Android 13 with Google Play, $289.99 from Boox’s US store. Read the pen line carefully, because most roundups get it wrong and we did too: the Gen II takes the BOOX InkSense Plus, an active pen sold separately at $45.99 or in a $322.99 bundle, and the first-generation Go Color 7, now sold out at Boox, takes no pen at all (checked September 2026). Budget $322.99 to actually write on one, which is $126 under the Move rather than the $159 the sticker suggests. Where it loses ground: Boox’s OS is busier than reMarkable’s, and the smaller 7-inch screen is cramped for full-page PDF markup compared to the Move’s 7.3 inches.

The trade-off is honest: you save real money and gain real flexibility (Kindle app, Kobo app, Libby, Notion, Obsidian all install from Play) and you give up the calmest writing OS in the category. Best fit for buyers who want the Move’s color-plus-stylus combination but cannot justify the Move’s price, and who would actually use the Android app flexibility if they had it.

2. iPad mini with Apple Pencil, the computer-that-writes

The iPad mini sits in the same physical size class as the Move (8.3-inch LCD versus 7.3-inch e-ink) and crosses the category line on purpose: it gives you a tablet that also writes, instead of a writing tablet that also reads. The iPad mini starts at $599. The Apple Pencil (USB-C) is $79 and the Apple Pencil Pro is $129, so entry lands at $678 with the cheaper pen and $728 with the Pro. That is $229 to $279 above the Move, not the near-parity this comparison used to claim, and it is the reason the iPad is a category-crossing choice rather than a price-driven one.

What you gain: full iPadOS, the entire App Store, the Kindle app, the Kobo app, Libby, Notability, Goodnotes, every Office app, every browser, a camera, FaceTime. What you give up: e-ink. The LCD will tire eyes faster than the Move’s Canvas Color, the battery runs hours rather than weeks, and writing on glass requires a friction screen protector to feel like paper at all. Best fit if you wanted a tablet for note-taking but also need to actually compute on the device.

(If you switch to Boox or Kobo, the same PDF planners in the bundle cross-load cleanly. Native .notebook format only loads on reMarkable devices.)

3. Boox Palma 2 Pro, color e-ink plus apps in a pocket

The Boox Palma 2 Pro is the apps-plus-colour alternative now that the 7.8-inch Tab Mini C is sold out at Boox’s own store. It is a 6.13-inch phone-sized Kaleido 3 colour e-ink device on Android 15 with a data-only 5G SIM slot, at $399.99, which is $49 under the Move (checked September 2026). The stylus is not in the box: it takes the InkSense Plus at $45.99, which brings it to $445.98, level with the Move. The smaller screen is the trade, since it suits reading and marking a page rather than full-page notes. If you want e-ink eye comfort plus the openness of Android in a pocket, it combines both. Boox also lists the 8.52-inch Note Mini C, stylus included, at $579.99 as available soon.

A real remarkable paper pro move alternative has to fit the same pocket and run the same job. Bigger tablets are a different post.From this roundup

What you trade against the Move: writing OS busy-ness (Android notifications, settings depth, background apps) versus reMarkable’s silent canvas. Pen feel is one grade below the Move on quick strokes; battery is roughly half (~1 week heavy versus ~2 weeks). Best fit if you want one device that reads from any ecosystem, writes adequately, and stays in the e-ink eye-comfort category.

4. reMarkable 2 refurbished, same OS at the Move’s price

The original reMarkable 2 was discontinued from new-purchase sales in early 2026, but reMarkable’s own refurbished store still sells it, in four bundles from $399 to $549, every one of them with a Marker and a folio already in the box. The entry bundle is $50 UNDER the Move, and it buys a 10.3-inch device (bigger than the Move’s 7.3 inches), the same reMarkable OS, and the same writing-first discipline that defines the brand. The trade-off is color (no), portability (heavier, larger), and a discontinued product line (no further OS updates beyond bug fixes).

Best fit for buyers who want reMarkable’s writing experience and OS quietness but care more about screen real estate than color. Our Kindle Scribe vs reMarkable 2 piece covers that decision against the mono Kindle Scribe; for the Move-vs-rM-2 question specifically, the rM 2 wins on size and price, the Move wins on color and portability.

Why not these

Honest non-picks: Kindle Scribe and Boox Palma 3

Two devices come up in this search that we excluded on purpose, because they are the wrong size class. The Kindle Scribe and Kindle Scribe Colorsoft (both 11 inch in the current generation) are bigger than the Move and are a different decision; if you’ve actually decided you want a larger tablet, our reMarkable alternatives pillar covers the 11-inch field, and our Paper Pro review covers the full-size version of the same OS family. The Boox Palma 3, listed at $339.99 as available soon, is a 6.13-inch mono e-reader (checked September 2026); great for one-handed reading on a commute, but a reading device rather than a writing tablet. Recommending it as a Move alternative would be dishonest because the use case is different.

Picking by what’ll define your week

Cheapest entry into colour e-ink with a stylus. Boox Go Color 7 Gen II at $322.99 with the InkSense Plus in the box. The $126 saving versus the Move is real but smaller than the sticker suggests, and it disappears entirely if you compare against the $399 refurbished reMarkable 2.

One device for writing and computing. iPad mini with Apple Pencil. The Move is single-purpose; iPad mini is the swiss-army version.

E-ink reading from any ecosystem, occasional writing. Boox Palma 2 Pro. $49 under the Move before the pen, runs Kindle and Kobo apps the Move cannot.

reMarkable polish at the Move’s price, bigger screen, mono. reMarkable 2 refurbished. Same OS, two extra inches of canvas, no color.

You want the Move and are talking yourself out of it. Buy the Move. None of these picks does everything it does. The alternatives win on one axis each; the Move is the only device that combines color e-ink, Marker quality, and pocketable size in a single product.

Scored on what actually sends people looking for an alternative, the Move’s shape is clear. It owns portability and pen feel, carries real color, and gives up apps and screen size. The device that beats it on screen size for less money is inside reMarkable’s own range rather than outside it: see Paper Pure vs Paper Pro Move. Each pick above beats it on exactly one of these rows, which is why there is no single replacement.

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