Landscape
The reMarkable templates landscape in 2026
Search for reMarkable templates and you land in a market that has matured fast since the rM1 days. The four sources below cover almost every option a 2026 buyer should consider. Skip the YouTube videos that pad the list with low-effort PNGs scraped from the rM2 community subreddit; the actual choice is between four real categories with different trade-offs.
The decision usually comes down to two questions. Do you want polish and consistency, or do you want maximum free options. And do you want a curated set that solves a specific use case (planning, journalling, project management), or do you want a general-purpose grid that adapts to whatever you throw at it. The four sources sort themselves cleanly across both axes.
Source 1
The official reMarkable templates: free, limited, fine
Every reMarkable ships with the official template set installed, accessed via the Notebook tab and the Templates picker. The current set covers Lined, Squared, Dotted, Cornell, Calendar (week and month), To-Do, Storyboard, Music, and a few specialty layouts (Days planner, Habit tracker, IQ matrix). All free. All locked to the device’s resolution. Most readers find the set sufficient for the first month and then start hunting for something more specific.
The official set’s strength is consistency. Every template uses the same line weights, the same proportions, the same paper-feel approach. The weakness is that the set has not meaningfully expanded since 2022. Amazon ships new templates with every Kindle Scribe firmware update; reMarkable’s official template list has been static for three years. If the official set covers your workflow, stay there. Almost no one needs more than what ships in the box.
Source 2
Third-party studio bundles: polished and workflow-specific
Studios like Templacity (us), Get to Worke, and a handful of independent designers ship paid template bundles that target specific workflows. Pricing typically lands at $20 to $60 for a bundle of 8 to 30 templates. The trade-off versus official: more polish, more workflow specificity, more money. The trade-off versus free community templates: less variety, more design coherence.
What to look for: templates designed at the device’s native resolution (1404 x 1872 for the rM2, 2160 x 2880 for the Paper Pro), light grey form lines so handwriting reads as the foreground, and either a clear workflow focus (planner, project log, habit system) or genuine variety. Avoid bundles that ship the same template at three colour palettes and call it a “30-template set”; those are filler. Our roundup of best reMarkable templates for productivity goes into the studio-by-studio comparison.
| Source | Price | Polish | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Official reMarkable set | Free | High | The first month and general use. |
| Studio bundles (paid) | $20 to $60 | Highest | Specific workflows (planning, projects). |
| Community freebies | Free | Variable | Niche use cases the studios miss. |
| Custom build | Free (your time) | Yours | Workflows nothing else covers. |
One quiet gotcha with paid bundles: most are designed for the rM2 native resolution and need rebuilding for the Paper Pro’s larger 2160 x 2880 screen. Studios that have not updated for the Paper Pro deliver templates that get scaled at the device level, which softens line weight and breaks the typography. Ask before buying.
Source 3
Free community reMarkable templates: variable but real
The community-template world centres on three places: the r/RemarkableTablet subreddit (frequent shares with PNGs in the comments), the GitHub org Eeems/oxide and adjacent repos for power-user templates, and our own free reMarkable templates page. Quality varies wildly. The best free templates are designed by people solving their own problem and shared at no cost; the worst are quick scrapes from Pinterest sized incorrectly for the device.
The community-template path is worth the time if you have a niche workflow that no studio covers (D&D character sheets, knitting pattern logs, specific medical chart layouts, certain academic citation formats). For mainstream workflows the studio bundles save you the curation time and ship at higher polish. For everything in between, mix and match.
Source 4
Custom build: when no existing reMarkable template fits
If your workflow is specific enough that none of the first three sources fit, building your own is faster than people expect. The recipe: design at the device’s native resolution (1404 x 1872 px for the rM2, 2160 x 2880 for the Paper Pro), export to PNG with a transparent or white background, install via RCU or manual SSH. Expect about an hour for a first template, maybe two if you are picky about line weights.
The how-to lives in two adjacent posts: how to create a reMarkable template from scratch covers the design side, and reMarkable template installer covers the install side. Both are short. The install step is the part most readers find intimidating and is actually the easier of the two.
The install step is the part most readers find intimidating and is actually the easier of the two.Custom build section
Picking
How to pick reMarkable templates that you will actually use
The single best filter we have found: ignore screenshots and ask whether the template solves a problem you already have. A pretty habit tracker is not the same as a habit tracker that fits the way you actually log habits. Templates that get long-term use are the ones that match an existing workflow, not the ones that promise to create a new one. The polish helps. The fit matters more.
One practical filter: download or buy three to five templates max in the first month, and use each for a real week before adding more. Template hoarding is the failure mode that ends with 40 templates installed and three actually opened. The reMarkable’s built-in template menu becomes hard to navigate past about 25 entries; pruning is part of the workflow. Our best reMarkable planner piece covers the specific planner question if you are mainly looking for one good week-and-day pair.
If you have favourite reMarkable templates we did not name above (especially community ones from outside the obvious subreddit threads), drop them in the comments. The roundup posts get refreshed monthly and reader-suggested sources have been the source of about a third of the new entries we add.
FAQ
Common questions, answered briefly
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