reMarkable 3.28 Update: Everything New in the Latest Release

reMarkable has officially started rolling out software update 3.28 in September 2026, and this one brings more than just a few small tweaks. The star of the show is the brand-new Capture Tool, which lets you grab content from PDFs and other documents and paste it straight into your notes. But that’s not all.

The update also brings new pen colors, better-looking reds on color devices, an improved EPUB reading experience, easier sharing, cloud image imports, and a handful of smaller workflow improvements.

Some beta users have actually been testing these features since June, but September 2026 marks the rollout of reMarkable 3.28 to regular users. I’ve taken a closer look at what’s new, what has actually changed, and which features are worth getting excited about.

What’s new in reMarkable 3.28?

There’s quite a bit packed into the reMarkable 3.28 update. The new Capture Tool is easily the biggest addition, but reMarkable has also made changes to colors, reading, sharing and working with images.

Here’s what’s new at a glance:

• New Capture Tool to grab content from PDFs and documents and use it elsewhere

• More pen colors, including green, yellow, cyan and magenta

• Improved red rendering on color reMarkable devices

• Refreshed EPUB reading experience with better formatting, fonts and language support

• Share button in the main toolbar for quicker access

• JPG and PNG imports from cloud storage using Convert to Notebook

• Drag and drop in the reMarkable Web App

Let’s take a closer look at what each of these changes actually means in everyday use.

The new Capture Tool

The biggest new feature in reMarkable 3.28 is without a doubt the Capture Tool. It lets you grab almost any visual content from a document and reuse it somewhere else on your reMarkable.

You’ll find Capture tucked underneath the Selection Tool in the toolbar. Simply draw around the part you want to capture. Your selection doesn’t have to be rectangular. reMarkable turns everything inside it into an image, which you can then paste elsewhere, including in another notebook or document. Once pasted, you can move, resize and rotate it.

This opens up some genuinely useful possibilities. You could grab a diagram from a PDF and add it to your study notes, copy a Bible verse into your sermon notes, or take an element from a planner and reuse it on another page. It also opens up a whole new way to use digital stickers on reMarkable: simply capture a sticker, paste it into your planner, and resize or rotate it wherever you like. You can find my reMarkable sticker collection here.

I think Capture has enough possibilities to deserve an article of its own, so I’ll dive much deeper into how the reMarkable Capture Tool works and what you can do with it in a separate post.

More pen colors to play with

reMarkable 3.28 also expands the pen color palette with green, yellow, cyan and magenta, giving you more options for highlighting, color coding and organizing your notes.

On color devices such as the reMarkable Paper Pro and Paper Pro Move, you’ll see these colors directly on the display. On black-and-white devices, the colors appear as shades of gray while you’re writing, but the actual colors are preserved when you view or export your notes elsewhere.

reMarkable has also adjusted the existing gray tones to make them easier to tell apart on monochrome displays.

Better reds on color reMarkables

Red gets an upgrade in reMarkable 3.28 too. On color devices, red ink now looks brighter and more like actual red, rather than the slightly brownish tone it had before.

There’s also a practical improvement. When writing in red with the ballpoint, fine-liner and calligraphy pens, the screen no longer needs that noticeable refresh flash to render the color correctly. This makes writing in red feel much smoother and less distracting.

The improvement currently applies to these three pen types only, rather than every pen in the reMarkable toolbox.

A refreshed EPUB reading experience

If you use your reMarkable as an ebook reader, version 3.28 brings several improvements to the EPUB experience. The interface for choosing fonts and page layouts has been redesigned, with new font options and expanded language support.

reMarkable has also made formatting improvements to how EPUB files are displayed and refreshed the ebook thumbnails in your library.

Personally, I find the differences quite subtle and don’t immediately see a huge change. I should add that I don’t really use my reMarkable for reading EPUBs, so I’m probably less likely to notice the smaller improvements than someone who regularly uses their device as an ebook reader.

Sharing is now easier to access

A small but useful change in reMarkable 3.28 is the new location of the Share button. Previously, you had to open the three-dot menu to find the sharing options. Now, Share has its own button directly in the main toolbar.

The sharing menu itself has also been simplified. It’s not a groundbreaking change, but if you regularly send or share pages from your reMarkable, it saves a few taps and makes the feature much easier to find.

Import images straight from the cloud

Getting images onto your reMarkable just became a little less fiddly. With Convert to Notebook, you can now grab JPG and PNG files straight from Google Drive, Dropbox or OneDrive.

Pick an image from your connected cloud storage and reMarkable turns it into a new notebook, ready for you to write or draw on. No need to download the image to another device first and then transfer it over.

It’s a small addition, but a handy one if images are already part of your workflow. Just note that the cloud integrations are part of reMarkable Connect.

Drag and drop finally comes to the Web App

Here’s another tiny change that just makes sense. You can now drag and drop files straight into the reMarkable Web App to add them to your reMarkable.

It’s hardly the star of update 3.28, but it’s one of those little improvements that makes you wonder why it wasn’t there already.

How to get the reMarkable 3.28 update

reMarkable started rolling out software version 3.28 in September 2026, but that doesn’t mean it will appear on every device at the same time. Updates are released gradually, and reMarkable says it can take several weeks before a new version reaches everyone.

You can check your software version and look for available updates under Settings > Software. If your reMarkable tells you it’s up to date but you’re still on an older version, there’s usually nothing wrong. Your device simply hasn’t reached its turn in the rollout yet.

Unfortunately, there’s no magic button to skip the queue, so you may just have to be a little patient.