BoardEffect vs reMarkable mobile
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BoardEffect
This app provides a secure, paperless boardroom experience for volunteer leaders. Access meeting packets, annotate documents offline, and view contact information. It syncs with a web-based portal for comprehensive board management.
- Paperless boardroom
- Download meeting packets
- Offline annotation
- Contact directory
- Resource library access (iPad)
- Board handbook management
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The Leading Board Portal for Volunteer Leadership Worldwide. Make your boardroom truly paperless. BoardEffect’s iOS App connects to your BoardEffect board portal. The App allows your board members to: - Download meeting packets - Fully annotate meeting materials including “sticky notes,” drawing, highlighting, underlining, and strike-through - Read and annotate meeting packets both online and offline - Print or email their meeting packets from the App (optional) - View the full contact directory including members’ head shots, biographies, and contact details - View files from your BoardEffect portal’s Resource Library (iPad only) - Download and annotate your Board Handbook, including bylaws, policies, and other documents The BoardEffect iOS App is free and works in conjunction with your secure BoardEffect web-based portal. For more information about BoardEffect, contact us at (866) 672-2666.
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.
- 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
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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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: BoardEffect at 3.5 against reMarkable mobile's 2.8. BoardEffect also leads on review sentiment (64% vs 28%). reMarkable mobile's advantage is ratings volume (500 vs 48). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
BoardEffect holds the better App Store score, 3.5 against 2.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: reMarkable mobile has 500 ratings behind it against 48, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 64% of BoardEffect's written reviews are positive against 28% of reMarkable mobile's.
BoardEffect ships an update every 6 weeks, reMarkable mobile every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on August 30, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BoardEffect | reMarkable mobile |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (48 ratings) — better | 2.8 (500 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 63.6% of reviews — better | 27.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 48 | 500 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 276 MB | 50 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Diligent Corporation | reMarkable AS |
Customer experience
BoardEffect
reMarkable mobile
Bugs and requests
BoardEffect
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or 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
In-app purchases
BoardEffect
No in-app purchases
reMarkable mobile
No in-app purchases
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