Comparison

reMarkable mobile vs Grug Notes

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

reMarkable mobile

Organize, create, and access your digital notes and documents from your paper tablet on the go. Manage content with folders and tags, and create new notebooks or add pages to existing PDFs and ebooks. Sync your work seamlessly to continue where you left off.

Highlights
  • Content overview with tags and favorites
  • Create folders for organization
  • Search functionality for documents
  • Create new notebooks and add pages
  • Edit PDFs and ebooks
  • Sync content across devices
Features
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Expand your reMarkable universe: Make sure to pair your paper tablet with an account at my.remarkable.com before logging in to the app. Find login details for both in Account settings on the paper tablet. Get organized: Use the app to get an overview of your content, with tags and favorite documents. Create folders for collecting notebooks and files by topic. Save one for each project, or separate work and personal notes. This will help you find and arrange the content stored on your paper tablet with Search. You can also remove clutter by deleting any digital paper that has piled up. Fresh paper in your pocket: Our notebooks take full advantage of the flexibility of digital paper for taking notes, typing, and sketching. All of your content is always available, and you can both make fresh notebooks, folders, and add note pages in PDFs and ebooks. Take focused notes, anywhere: Make your ideas easier to refine and share on the go. Our cloud storage allows you to sync your content and pick up right where you left off on your paper tablet. Use the app to create new notebooks or quick sheets, and add blank note pages to existing documents. Checkboxes in the formatting menu are great for to-do lists. Type pages of notes, or quickly write out shorter lists to review and annotate later on your reMarkable. 
 Download the app to your mobile to make the most of your paper tablet. Discover a new way to take notes.

About

Grug Notes

This app allows users to capture, edit, and organize notes using voice commands. It offers real-time voice interaction for finding, modifying, and asking questions about your notes, as well as a voice-powered calculator and meeting transcription. It's designed for hands-free use, syncing across devices.

Highlights
  • Live voice mode for real-time interaction
  • Hands-free note editing and retrieval
  • Voice-powered calculator
  • Meeting recording and transcription
  • AI-powered summarization
  • Personal wiki creation
  • Cloud syncing across devices
Features
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A daily notes app for people who work on their feet. Its live voice mode doesn't just take dictation: it finds your notes, edits them, answers questions, and even does the math, all while you talk. Get what's in your head onto the page, minus the clutter. LIVE MODE: TALK, AND IT ACTS This isn't dictation. Live mode understands what you mean and does it, in real time: • Find anything: ask "what did I note about the trip budget?" and the note surfaces. • Edit hands-free: add to, rewrite, or clean up a note by talking. • Ask anything: get answers from your notes, or quick answers to anything else. • Do the math: say "what's 15% of 2,400?" and get the answer on the spot. CAPTURE BY VOICE Just want it written down? Tap record and talk — your words become clean, transcribed notes instantly. MEETINGS, HANDLED Record and transcribe entire meetings, then get clean, searchable notes. Pair with your own notes and use AI to summarize. YOUR PERSONAL WIKI Mention a person, company, or date and Grug Notes tags it for you, then builds a page that pulls together every note where it comes up. A second brain, minus the busywork. PLAN IT WITH GRUG CHAT Organize each day with prompts you choose — Goals, Tasks, Training, whatever fits. Then tell Grug Chat what you're working toward and it drafts the plan straight into your days: training for a race, next week's jobs, a simple travel itinerary. You review everything it proposes before it lands. CHATGPT, GEMINI, AND CLAUDE. ONE APP. Grug Chat runs on the models you already know — ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Grok, and more — with one subscription. Pick a favorite, or ask several at once and compare their answers. WORKOUTS FROM APPLE HEALTH Plan the training, then let the results log themselves. Connect Apple Health and every workout becomes a note on the day it happened — distance, duration, pace, heart rate, and calories, right next to what you planned. Read-only, opt-in, and only from the workout apps you approve. PICK UP ANYWHERE Notes sync automatically between your phone and the web. Start anywhere, pick up right where you left off. BUILT BY A CANOE SHOP We build canoes for a living, on our feet all day with our hands full. Every notes app we tried was made for someone sitting at a desk. So we built the one we actually needed: talk to it, and it works. No keyboard required. Download and start talking. — Terms of Use: https://grugnotes.com/tos/ Privacy Policy: https://grugnotes.com/privacy/

Screenshots

reMarkable mobile4 screens
Grug Notes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Grug Notes at 100% against reMarkable mobile's 27%. Grug Notes also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.8) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 months). reMarkable mobile's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ratings volume (517 vs 23). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Grug Notes sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per month. reMarkable mobile asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Grug Notes holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: reMarkable mobile has 517 ratings behind it against 23, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 27% of reMarkable mobile's written reviews are positive against 100% of Grug Notes's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

reMarkable mobile ships an update every 2 months, Grug Notes every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
reMarkable mobile versus Grug Notes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterreMarkable mobileGrug Notes
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.8 (517 ratings)5.0 (23 ratings) — better
Positive reviews27.3% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings517 — better23
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size50 MB32 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperreMarkable ASKamanu Composites, LLC

Customer experience

reMarkable mobile

All ratings516 ratings
Positive36.2%
Neutral14.7%
Negative49.0%
Written reviews436 reviews
Positive27.3%
Neutral17.4%
Negative55.3%

Grug Notes

All ratings23 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews15 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

reMarkable mobile

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • App crashes frequently
  • Cursor controls not working as expected
  • Sync issues causing data loss
  • Compatibility problems with newer iOS versions
  • PDF scrolling and rendering issues

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add ability to edit and annotate documents within the app
  • Implement a dark mode option
  • Improve file management and organization tools
  • Integrate with popular cloud storage services
  • Allow handwriting input on mobile devices

Grug Notes

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

reMarkable mobile

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Grug Notes

Subscriptions2
  • Grug Core$12.991 Month
  • Grug Plus$17.991 Month

Questions

Is reMarkable mobile free?
reMarkable mobile is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Grug Notes free?
Grug Notes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, reMarkable mobile or Grug Notes?
Grug Notes is rated higher. reMarkable mobile averages 2.8 out of 5 from 517 ratings, while Grug Notes averages 5.0 from 23 ratings.
Do reMarkable mobile or Grug Notes have ads?
Neither reMarkable mobile nor Grug Notes shows ads.
Which is updated more often, reMarkable mobile or Grug Notes?
reMarkable mobile ships an update every 2 months, and Grug Notes every 3 days. Most recently, reMarkable mobile was updated on November 3, 2026 and Grug Notes on November 5, 2026.

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