reMarkable 2 Review - Is it worth the high price tag?

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UPDATE: Some of the features in this video I mentioned, such as:
- Google Drive and Dropbox integration
- Handwriting conversion
- Screen Share
Now require a $7.99/£7.99 a month subscription fee. They were free a couple of months ago when I made this video. This makes this product even more expensive to own by another $95.88 per year.
Owners who purchased the device before the changes came into place get the features for free.
They have knocked off £100 of the price, but, you will pay this back to them within a year because of their subscription service.
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The new Amazon Kindle had almost zero ghosting (where you can see the text from the previous page), showing the technology in this is outdated.
A full review of the reMarkable 2. At up to £649 ($649) we take a look and see if this is worth paying double the price of an iPad for the reMarkable 2. We also take a look at the essential accessories you should get with your reMarkable, the Marker Plus, and the folio case.
0:00 - Intro
0:08 - Unboxing
0:26 - Battery life
0:48 - A look at the pen and eraser
2:30 - A look at the case
3:28 - Complaints
4:03 - E-reader functionality
4:33 - Palm rejection
4:51 - Core writing experience
5:24 - Convert to text
6:07 - Syncing with laptop
6:27 - Is this a must-buy?
8:16 - Is this for you?
8:36 - Potential threats
9:14 - Try it with its great return policy

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@Sosroseno 2 года назад

For those who are watching this video after October 2021 and are interested in the RM2: the device is now even more of a bad value for money with the introduction of the subscription plan, especially compared to the competition. Most of the features you'd expect from e-ink note takers are locked behind a paywall, and if you buy the device sans the subscription, they actually artificially increased the price of the flip-cover and the premium stylus. There are much, much better e-ink note takers out there, some even running full-fat Android (e.g. Boox devices). And most of them start out much cheaper than the RM2, making some of the cons mentioned in this video inherent to the device class (especially the nibs wearing out) less of an issue.

@TruthReviews 2 года назад

Thank you for this. I will be making a follow up video next week for sure.

@Dylan03917 2 года назад

Have any suggestions for some good e-ink note takers?

@josephhiggins 2 года назад

Thank you very much. I have been using Tablet computing for many decades and was going to be my next experiment. You hit almost every point I care about and saved me the evaluation.

@PilatesStrong 2 года назад

Thanks for the honest review, none of the other reviews showed the screen reflection that’s a big no-no when it comes to writing on paper like devices. I’ll be waiting for a better version

@proud2bcsn 2 года назад

Great unbiased review from your perspective. This made me reconsider the purchase and just wait a bit. Thanks for your contribution.

@brentmartin3085 2 года назад

I am sure glad I came across this review. Thank you for the great details and professional review. I was getting ready to order 7 of these for my office but I think now I will look for something else.

@TruthReviews 2 года назад

Remember they now charge monthly fee too.

@brentmartin3085 2 года назад

@@TruthReviews thanks for the reminder. 7-10 tablets on a monthly fee doesn’t make sense.

@Sosroseno 2 года назад

For your purpose, I think the Ratta Supernote A5X will be much better - at the cheapest configuration, it comes with stylus with an everlasting nib and a darn good flip-cover. Its also way less fragile than the RM2.

@TruthReviews 2 года назад

@@Sosroseno I will find one to review. 🙌

@vvvv4651 2 месяца назад

Thank you so much for the depth of this review man. I literally filtered search and selectively picked out this video for a purpose and you delivered. I do not trust brands like ReMarkable have availability in a store like Best buy to not already have lined & "algo-wash" reviews of their product, especially of it's the main product. That being said, for me an IPad is not a suitable alternative though appealing. Looking for something functionally the exact same as a remarkable without the villainous gimmicks & overreaching price tag duo. Anyways subbed.

@deystvuy999 Год назад

Good review ! Was looking for this

@stephenrickard9586 2 года назад

Outstanding review. Extremely helpful.

@doc1manutoob 2 года назад

Thanks for the review. I am looking for a digital replacement to my journal and I was hoping this might be it. I may wait based on your recommendations.

@TruthReviews 2 года назад

Wait for the next revision or considerable price drop. Or perhaps Amazon will come up with something or place it in the next Kindle premium edition. For that price at the moment and the next issues listed, it’s just not worth it.

@ozzy2987 2 года назад

Thanks very honest and detailed review!!! My remarkable also leaves faded shades as well especially after I close stroke drop down menu and erase things. They were still visible and noticeable. I thought mine was defective until I saw your video.

@yvonnefuchen1110 2 года назад

Thank you for this honest review. I was about to get remarkable 2. Glad I watched your video beforehand. For those reconsideration points, I guess I should not get this until maybe Kindle upgrade its compatibility and functionality. Cheers.

@SwiftDanger 2 года назад

I just got one of these as a gift. Sure it’s expensive but personally I’m really enjoying it. I think the best feature is all the different templates. I want to get into story writing, so the idea that I can have story boards and checklists in the same file is pretty useful. It’s a fun device. Online reviews seems to steer away from this product, but beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

@woulfhound 2 года назад

Seems like you will be the one paying for those price gouging nib bundles as much as any engineer would. The more I learn about this device the more it looks like a fancy car and less like a modern desktop tool. As an engineering student it's hard enough to lug around a big fat binder full of math calculations. This review is basically telling me to keep buying mechanical pencils and graph paper since this technology is being used for both profit and prestige instead of practical applications and reducing waste. A device like this not be wasted on a fucking fashion statement.

@JelisaSmith 2 года назад

Great review! Thank you!!! I almost bought one. Glad I checked here first

@TruthReviews 2 года назад

Thank you. It’s a good concept. The execution is just not there yet. Especially at this price point.

@bipolar-tiger 2 года назад

This is the best review for the Remarkable, and yet it is unpopular. Maybe because it is honest and talks about how the notebook is not worth the price. I love taking notes and I have way too many notebooks laying around with various notes. So I've been looking into digital notebooks. But none of the reviews seem to really talk about the hassles of these things like you did. Also, losing a 10$ moleskin sucks. Imagine losing 600$.

@TruthReviews 2 года назад

Thank you. I do find reviews where I say how great something is usually does far better than reviews where a product needs improvements. I guess most (not all) people watching reviews are interested and excited about a product and do not like being disappointed in hearing it needs work or may not be worth it. Thanks again. All the best.

@johnpaul4301 2 года назад

@@TruthReviews Thanks for your honesty bro. You saved me from buying this thing. Definitely not worth the price

@nahid1111100 2 года назад

Great review. Very honest

@aubrieeaston5257 2 года назад

Thank you for this review! I appreciate the information. I will pass on this!

@bradleycarrington9093 2 года назад

I absolutely love the idea of this and would love to have an electronic note taking device to save paper and reduce clutter, but it seems poorly executed and the price point is a bit absurd. Hopefully in a few years there will be a cheaper and more optimized version

@Justin.Danford 2 года назад

great straight forward review, fair and consumer minded

@TruthReviews 2 года назад

Thank you for watching.

@cleb6846 2 года назад

Thank you for such a great review. I use notepads everyday and then rewrite my important notes in Evernote. Having considered the Remarkable, I found the price to be unjustifiable and the screen reflection would annoy me. There will be improvements and so for now, I’ll remain an avid user of pen and 80gsm paper.

@BiggieZee 2 года назад

Damn! The price point alone is a killer! I’d love a simple digital note/art pad but this is coming up way more than a lower end iPad+pencil

@TruthReviews 2 года назад

You could buy an iPad, kindle, apple pen and still have change. I think if Amazon see this as a real threat they will add the functionality onto a future kindle at a lower price.

@sampraz1990 2 года назад

don't listen to him buy a Tab S7 FE

@jamesvind9045 2 года назад

Great quality review

@TruthReviews 2 года назад

Thank you 😊

@johncasey4077 2 года назад

I must give it a try

@MelaninMel24 2 года назад

Great review! Is there a table or a really good application that can accurately turn handwriting to text?

@TruthReviews 2 года назад

If you mean for tablets. Apples built in notepad can convert handwriting to text. There’s a few out there. Most free. All on the App Store. Good thing with apple too is that they do free returns for two weeks

@jeremiez381 2 года назад

Honest review thanks

@NoizyInSeattle 2 года назад

Thank you. I work in a lab, and handwriting notes is essential to my job. I literally have like six legal pads going at all times. If the problems you described were repaired, and the features were much improved upon, I would pay twice as much for this device.

@TruthReviews 2 года назад

Check out the review of the Boox I did. It has a steep learning curve but has no subscription cost and other features this doesn’t have like backlighting.

@dozog 2 года назад

No matter how fancy it looks, everything about this product screams "money making scam" - No pen included? - expensive consumable tips? - A monthly "connect" plan? I missed those in your review. These monthly subscription plans make replacing tips look cheap. Only the most expensive package gives you DropBox and Google Drive integration. (and some other *unspecified* advanced options) I hate products that lock you in for a monthly service charge.

@TruthReviews 2 года назад

Oh when I had it I wasn’t prompted to join any plan. Maybe they have added that recently. Either way the last thing this product needed was to cost people even more.

@Ronda_L_Harris 2 года назад

Correct. The Connect subscription came after October 2021, according to their website. I’m so glad I saw this review! You’re absolutely right in that the LAST thing they needed to do was make this even MORE expensive! I’ll just make do with my iPad for now. This is insanely priced to be so limited.

@TruthReviews 2 года назад

And with Netflix, Apple Music/Spotify, phone contract… so many monthly costs these days, another £$ 7.99 a month is the last thing we all need.

@dozog 2 года назад

@@TruthReviews Better get used to it. Its how businesses make money now. You buy the product, they lock you in with proprietary services. 😕 Usually they lure you into the services with a cheap initial investment. These guys weren't sure they would earn back the cost of the device , so they charge you both for the device *and* for the added services. (And you still need to pay for dropbox separately unless you use a small free account)

@TruthReviews 2 года назад

Funny you say this. During Christmas a family got out their karaoke machine… guess what… it is now £6.99 a month to use when it was always free before. For this device though it is a killer. Their dishonest discount scheme is also something that leaves a bitter taste.

@jasonbeasley3104 2 года назад

I ordered one of these about a week ago, expecting it to arrive later this week. I want a device that replaces the stack of legal pads on my desk (one for each client) and help me keep track of the one off tasks that come at me fast and furious from each of those clients. However, the biggest thing I want is the ability to write notes prepping for or during a meeting and be able to silence the phone and email apps or leave them in the other room. I have a Surface Pro 6 computer but writing on it is terrible and it comes with the constant distractions. I bought a Kindle for reading with the same idea to be able to leave the bings and pings of the phone and PC behind and read without distraction. I'm content to have one more device because that's what I have now it's just that the current writing device is a legal pad. I'm eager to see if this can replace my entire note writing world.

@TruthReviews 2 года назад

I am eager to hear back from you on your thoughts. If there is one target audience I would recommend this to, it would be you. I found a few times I was unable to open documents due to no wifi, so make sure they are saved on your device. Let me know how it works out for you and remember to double-check what you write before converting to a word/pdf document using auto-translate.

@SithijaWijesinghe 2 года назад

Hey there, do you remember the software version at the time you made the video? there was a very recent update from what I recall.

@TruthReviews 2 года назад

Hello. I checked on August 8th 2021 and it was up to date with software 2.9 that was released in July 2021. The latest one. Thanks for watching.

@SithijaWijesinghe 2 года назад

@@TruthReviews thank you!

@afghan7971 10 месяцев назад

How much is the price of a remarkable ?pls I wanto know

@TheKrazyRico 2 года назад

What are your thoughts on the latest change? The fact that Remarkable removed standard features to be behind a subscription service was a deal breaker for me. I am no longer interested in purchasing one and have moved on to Supernote A5X.

@TruthReviews 2 года назад

It's ridiculous. For a product that everyone said was way overpriced, to then go and do this makes me wonder what they are thinking. The only credit I will give them is they emailed me the following "We’re offering all our existing customers to Connect. Our way to thank all of you for believing in us right from the start."

@westcommonroom9737 2 года назад

Thanks for this. Given the saturation advertising on youtube suspected this would be a poor product and poor value and I was not disappointed.

@drhibas Год назад

Good review! The only thing that is holding me back is the price. If it stnced better I think it would maybe be easier to swallow. I also would like a smaller one. It is very big to carry on the go at the office.

@maxdrid 2 года назад

Absulutly yes

@EstoTrader 2 года назад

Just order yesterday a rm2 with at 283Eur with discount Code+ conect discount. I Will buy a Norris classic Pen , avoiding the expensive rm2 market. No eink 10" under the price and quality if the rm2 at this momento. You can wait for the Kindle do that? I not.

@rush48192 Год назад

I understand if you want an eReader and a notebook, then yes the new kindle might be that better device but the remarkable 2 is just insanely thin, much thinner than even a paper notepad. The deals remarkable is giving right now are just a no-brainer to jump in and give a try thx for the review, oh and if you have a stylus from another device it might just work on the remarkable

@MortFaible 2 года назад

Which tablet do you recommend with the same kind of functionality?

@TruthReviews 2 года назад

Pretty much any iPad can take notes and sign pdfs and do a LOT more for the same if not less money.

@MortFaible 2 года назад

@@TruthReviews I see. I also heard about the new Xiaomi tablet, do you know anything about it?

@iselchyresseisrael-megahan7864 2 года назад

Does the company keep you in the loop with updates and advances? For that matter ARE there updates and advances?

@TruthReviews 2 года назад

When you register your device they get your email address. They do let you know of changes to price plan and new features in any firmware updates. At least they have so far.

@perriknize2118 2 года назад

I am a writer and I have literally HUNDREDS of spiral notebooks, composition books, and journals stuffed in a walk in closet from decades of writing longhand. I do all of my initial book and article writing longhand, then have to type it up. I would love to have a device like this that allows me to automatically upload my morning's writing to my computer and convert it to editable text, then send it back to the writing device formatted as manuscript for longhand editing. It would change my life. Any device that could do this well--and NOT have ANY distractions on it like a tablet does--would be worth a lot of money to me. Would the Remarkable be a good choice for my needs? Is there something else out there that would be better?

@TruthReviews 2 года назад

A few months back I would have said yes. But the monthly subscription and the cost of replacement nibs can add hundreds to the cost of owning this over a couple of years. There are a lot more similar devices on their way and there is the Supernote which I am trying my best to get hold of. But they do not sell in the UK currently. Personally I think the monthly subscription is just too much and they can up the price as they wish. Without the subscription you lose almost all the features that make this worth while, including the handwriting to text translation.

@TruthReviews 2 года назад

I do have an update video on this device with all the new monthly costs of owning this device. Do check it out.

@rodrigohernandoyubero6640 2 года назад

VERY GOOD

@clovismelo8551 Год назад

Excellent your review. I bought an RM2, I confess it was the best experience I've had in taking notes on a tablet. I will refund it after two weeks. the reason was that the pen tip wears out too quickly in my use. Within a week I had to change it. In a year I would probably use more than 40 tips and for the price that would be impossible to maintain.

@TruthReviews Год назад

Thank you for sharing your experience. That is a lot of tips to go through. Add the subscription cost and it can become very expensive.

@rush48192 Год назад

You can use other pens like a Samsung pro with plastic tips, I have also seen people use metal tips but then it feels more like an apple pencil

@magnussamue2769 2 года назад

Hey, I could not find an email on your channel, however I liked your review. And right now, me and a group of bachelor students are looking for someone like you, for an interview about the reMarkable and tablets. Please let me know if you would be interested, it would all be anonymous and used only for our exam project.

@besssong6106 2 года назад

Ideal for note taking, you save lots of paper and keep your desk clean. But it doesn't support Chinese language, which creates tremendous troubles if you convert the Chinese characters, or want to read imported documents/articles in Chinese, that includes all formats, epub and even PDF. Don't buy if you need to use Chinese. Hope the language would be eventually added.

@wk4240 2 года назад

The price-point is too high currently - along with a subscription-based service plan that will continually be changing.

@konradslomkowski732 2 года назад

Its a cool device but, I would wait 5 more years for cheap knock offs. Its way too price!! However, its nice too see that engineers are working on such devices

@michielfokkema4217 2 года назад

Kobo actually already has an ereader with writing options.

@TruthReviews 2 года назад

I will check it out and grab one for review 🙌

@willydoeslife 2 года назад

I’ve been looking for a digital notebook to replace all my journals and such. I take notes and sketches a lot for many different hobbies. And I didn’t want to buy an iPad or Kendal cause I don’t want to be distracted by all the other apps and basically be paying for many features I wouldn’t be using. The remarkable 2 seemed like the perfect solution. But it looks like it has many issues and gosh why is it so expensive? It’s the same price as an iPad! And I despise that this company is trying to upswell with accessories. I won’t support it. This device should come with the pencil (the fact they have 2 different pencils is also annoying) and a protective case. A full package in one. Looks like I’ll keep searching… hopefully reMarkable will stay true to there vision and not get caught in money and charging for expensive accessories like Apple.

@willydoeslife 2 года назад

Found something called the SuperNote, seems to be a better version of this

@TruthReviews 2 года назад

For drawing an iPad would be better as I have seen some beautiful art created on them. Of course it is colour too. You could just not install any other apps on it. Also no monthly cost like the remarkable.

@TruthReviews 2 года назад

Supernote looks good but they do not sell in the UK yet unless buying for over retail cost from eBay.

@postbyte1 2 года назад

This is the easiest way to sign and send documents.

@karlguthrie1982 2 года назад

Oh gosh! This sounds like a terrible product for the price. With the hefty starting price for the product, case AND the pen, why then does it also have a monthly subscription for full funtionality? I'll stir clear. Thanks for the heads up.

@CRAZY6256 2 года назад

Bam you just killed the product but also gave Remarkable to do a better job on their next iteration. 🙂

@garypotter5569 2 года назад

Haptic responses are still unrealistic. Like bad 90's CGI. I mean, I know they'll eventually get it, it's just... will it all be worth the energy/battery demands when they finally do.

@edwardmcdonald8194 2 года назад

Thanks. Appreciate the review. I will not buy. I subscribed because of the competant review!

@drewbush6535 2 года назад

what makes me mad. cant get any help with you have a problem.. i cant sync to the cloud for 2 days

@GAUROCH2 2 года назад

I love my reMarkable so much that I am ordering 2 more (one for my son's birthday). Expensive? Perhaps a 3000£ for a tuned exhaust for the not so fancy car is a useful investment...!

@rickerp 2 года назад

Do you think the price drop for 299$ worth it?

@TruthReviews 2 года назад

I think at that price it’s worth getting it with a good returns policy to test it out. I personally don’t miss having it and from everyone I let test it only one person still uses theirs on a regular basis.

@longnguyenfromusa 2 года назад

I would highly recommend NOT buying this product (remarkable 2 or 1). It's still buggy. Took me over an hour to activate the device. You can't use the device until it's activated with their network. The pad needs a pen to be able to use it. And they charge for the pen. It does not come with the pen! They took all the good features and made it part of the paid subscription service! You are better off buying an iPad or Samsung S7 tablet that comes with the pen. You can watch movies, listen to music, do emails, and so many other things with the iPad or Samsung. Writing may be better on the reMarkable, but if you buy one of those screen saves for your tablet, it may bring the writing experience close.

@AyoCoat 2 года назад

It’s very expensive therefore makes it not useful. I’ll rather buy an iPad where I can browse and do more

@TruthReviews 2 года назад

At £150-200 I could justify it if it had amazing e-reader capabilities because I could say it replaced a kindle too. But at £600+ it way over priced.

@dannyparker7814 2 года назад

This looks like trash for the price. Ill wait a couple years.

@infinitycombatsystems1898 2 года назад

Waste of time product, the form of monochromatic screen, the heavy lag in many facets is just useless, either iPad or some Samsung tablet Is far better!