Mobile UX Sketching Templates for reMarkable

June 5, 2026 · View on GitHub

Wireframing/UX page templates for the reMarkable Paper Pro and reMarkable 2 — accurate iPhone and Android device frames with safe-area shading, a 12-column layout grid, and a fine drawing grid, sized to real device aspect ratios. Built in the reMarkable "Methods" format (survives software updates). This repo includes the finished templates and the source that generates them.

All templates

⚡ Just here to install the templates?

You'll do a quick one-time setup so your computer can talk to the tablet, then run a single command. Connect the reMarkable with its USB cable for all of this.

1) One-time setup — turn on SSH access and get your password

  • reMarkable Paper Pro: you must enable Developer Mode, which erases the tablet (back up / sync first). Full walkthrough: INSTALL — Paper Pro.
  • reMarkable 2: no Developer Mode needed. Full walkthrough: INSTALL — reMarkable 2.

Both guides also show where to find your device's password (on the tablet: Settings → General → Help → About → Copyrights and licenses → "GPLv3 Compliance").

2) Run the installer (replace YOURNAME with this repo's GitHub owner):

macOS / Linux — open Terminal and paste:

REPO=Martes-Delta-Co/Remarkable-Mobile-Prototyping-Templates.git bash <(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Martes-Delta-Co/Remarkable-Mobile-Prototyping-Templates.git/main/install.sh)

Windows — open PowerShell and paste:

$env:REPO="Martes-Delta-Co/Remarkable-Mobile-Prototyping-Templates.git"; iwr -useb https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Martes-Delta-Co/Remarkable-Mobile-Prototyping-Templates.git/main/install.ps1 | iex

It downloads the templates, copies them to the tablet (it asks for the device password — that's expected), and restarts the interface. On the tablet: New page → Template.

Prefer not to use a script? Both guides above include a plain copy-the-files method and a no-terminal drag-and-drop option (WinSCP / Cyberduck).

Remove them later:

ssh root@10.11.99.1 'rm -rf /home/root/.local/share/remarkable/xochitl/uxtpl_* ; systemctl restart xochitl'

(Everything is namespaced uxtpl_, so this only removes these templates.)

What's in the set

36 templates = 2 devices × 6 layouts × 3 content variants.

  • Devices: iPhone (Dynamic Island), Android (punch-hole).
  • Layouts: 1UP, 2UP, 4UP, 1UP LS (landscape page), 1UP WIDE (landscape phone), 4UP LS.
  • Variants: COL (12-column shading) · COL GRD (columns + grid) · GRD (grid only).

Picker names: {1|2|4}UP [LS] [WIDE] [COL] [GRD] {iPhone|Android} (e.g. 1UP COL iPhone, 1UP LS COL GRD iPhone, 4UP LS COL Android). Each has a thumbnail. Works on both devices and templates scale to the screen — you'll see the same 36 designs on either tablet. (Under the hood the set ships in two coordinate variants — one for the Paper Pro and a 90°-rotated one for the rM2, which interprets the template canvas rotated; each device's picker shows only its own via supportedScreens.) Requires reMarkable software 3.17+.

Build / customize from source

The templates are generated by small Python scripts (generation is stdlib-only):

cd src
python3 build.py            # regenerates templates/universal/
python3 render_previews.py  # optional previews; needs: pip install -r requirements.txt

Where to tweak:

  • Colors / line weights: constants at the top of src/gen_methods.py (COL, UNSAFE, GRID_STROKE, NOTE_STROKE).
  • Layouts / sizes / margins: layout_boxes() and M in src/gen_templates.py.
  • Device dimensions / notch / buttons: the ANDROID / IPHONE dicts in src/gen_templates.py.
  • Column count / grid density: n = 12, gutter_frac, cell = sw/12 in src/gen_methods.py.
  • Thumbnails: src/make_icons.py.

How the format works

See docs/methods-format-notes.md for reverse-engineered notes on the reMarkable "Methods" template format (file structure, the templateWidth/templateHeight scaling trick, what fillColor / strokes / even-odd holes do, and pitfalls — e.g. curve commands blank a template).

Repository layout

templates/universal/   36 designs × 2 device coordinate sets (216 files) + MANIFEST
docs/                  install guides (Paper Pro, rM2) + Methods-format notes
src/                   the generators (Python) + build/preview scripts
preview/               images used by this README
install.sh / .ps1      one-command installers

License

MIT. Template designs free to use; attribution appreciated. (Prefer CC-BY-4.0 for the artwork? Swap the LICENSE file.)

Disclaimer

The reMarkable "Methods" format is undocumented and community-reverse-engineered; treat it as empirical. Not affiliated with reMarkable AS. Enabling Developer Mode and copying files to the device is at your own risk.