Version 3.28 centers on the Capture Tool, which sat in the Selection Tool foldout in the toolbar during the beta period, according to eReadersForum. The update also bundles an EPUB refresh, pen color rendering fixes, and a relocated sharing button that now sits in the main toolbar instead of a buried three-dot menu, according to Good e-Reader.

reMarkable's own release-notes page lists a May 2026 rollout for version 3.27, and separately notes that Screen Share was added to the company's new web app, according to reMarkable's release notes. An earlier update from January 2025 added a shapes feature that lets users draw geometrically precise circles, boxes, and triangles by holding the stylus at the end of a stroke, per the same release notes. That's a different capability from circle-to-capture: one draws a shape, the other clips content already on the page.

The mechanic: users lasso a circle or any freeform shape around content in a PDF, EPUB, or another notebook, and the tool clips it as an image that can be pasted into a different note, according to The Verge and eReadersForum. Once captured, the clip can be repositioned, resized, and rotated, per The Verge, and also duplicated and moved across pages or entire notebooks, per Good e-Reader.

The tool also works across reMarkable's infinite-scroll notebook canvas, so assembling a set of clippings doesn't run into fixed page breaks, according to eReadersForum. That could let owners consolidate visual material from several documents without manually redrawing it, though the sources don't describe a specific prior workflow it replaces.

What gets captured is an image file, not editable or searchable text, even when the selected material is plain text on the page, according to eReadersForum. Clips can be moved and resized, but the tool doesn't allow editing or converting the content itself, per the same report.

reMarkable does have a separate "convert to text" function that turns handwriting into a new page of converted text, according to eWritable. That's a distinct feature from the Capture Tool; the beta report describes captured clips specifically as content that can't be edited or converted, without connecting the two. The beta report adds that an image may be sufficient for most reference use, since it preserves layout, diagrams, and formatting that plain text would flatten out, but that anyone expecting editable or searchable text output will find the tool falls short of that, per eReadersForum.

3.28 brings a UI refresh for EPUBs, along with formatting fixes and expanded language support, according to The Verge and Good e-Reader. The scope of reMarkable's ebook support hasn't changed: EPUB remains the only supported ebook format, DRM-protected titles cannot be opened, and Kindle books cannot be read directly on the device, according to reMarkable's support documentation.

Those limits give the EPUB work some context. A May firmware breakdown called the reading experience "deeply underwhelming," pointing to reformatting delays whenever font size or margins changed, a few seconds on a 100-page book and considerably longer on a 1,000-page one, according to eWritable. Whether 3.28's formatting fixes address that specific lag isn't confirmed in the available reporting, though expanded language support and a UI refresh point to the same reading experience getting attention rather than a rebuild.

On color-supported devices, red strokes from the ballpoint, fineliner, and calligraphy brush now settle into their final shade immediately, skipping the E Ink flash cycle that normally appears as a stroke renders. reMarkable calls this feature Responsive Reds, according to Good e-Reader and eReadersForum.

The fix applies only to red used with those three tools; any other color, or red used with a different pen, still flashes the old way, per eReadersForum. The update also adds a handful of additional gray shades. Monochrome devices remain limited to black, white, and gray tones, while color models already support a broader palette, according to the same source and eWritable.

The Capture Tool lets reMarkable owners pull visual material such as charts, diagrams, and marked-up passages into a notebook, according to The Verge. The beta report describes the feature as image-only, not searchable or editable text, according to eReadersForum.

reMarkable's release-notes page lists version 3.27's May 2026 rollout as its most recent documented entry, according to reMarkable's release notes. The supplied reporting does not establish whether 3.28 is available to every device, nor does it say whether captures will eventually gain text extraction or search. Those questions stay open until reMarkable publishes its own notes for this release.