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Analysis updated 2026-05-18

8RustAudience · generalComplexity · 2/5LicenseSetup · easy

TL;DR

A handwriting-only version of Wordle for the reMarkable Paper Pro tablet, with on-device letter recognition and no internet needed.

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    What it does
      Handwritten Wordle
      On device recognition
      No internet needed
    Tech stack
      Rust
      tract inference
      EMNIST model
    Use cases
      Play offline puzzle
      Airplane mode gaming
      Explore handwriting AI
    Audience
      reMarkable tablet owners
    Setup
      Install via remagic
      Install via reManager
      Build from source

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Why would anyone build with this?

REASON 1

Play Wordle by handwriting letters directly on a reMarkable Paper Pro tablet.

REASON 2

Enjoy a puzzle game with no internet connection or account needed, even in airplane mode.

REASON 3

Install a lightweight, battery-friendly game on an e-ink handwriting tablet.

REASON 4

Build the app from source to explore on-device handwriting recognition on ARM hardware.

What's in the stack?

RusttractEMNIST

How it stacks up

rkcr7/inkwordleeternal-flame-ad/yume-pdqninjahawk/xviral
Stars888
LanguageRustRustRust
Last pushed2026-03-21
MaintenanceMaintained
Setup difficultyeasyhardmoderate
Complexity2/54/53/5
Audiencegeneraldeveloperpm founder

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How do you spin it up?

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 5min

Requires a reMarkable Paper Pro tablet with the AppLoad launcher, installs in one step via remagic or reManager.

You can use, modify, and share this freely, but any modified version you distribute must also be open source under the same license.

Wtf does this do

InkWordle is a version of the word puzzle Wordle made for the reMarkable Paper Pro, a handwriting focused e-ink tablet. Instead of tapping letters on a screen keyboard, the player writes each guess by hand with the tablet's pen, and the tablet reads the handwriting itself to fill in the grid. There is no keyboard on screen at all, only six rows of five boxes to write into. The handwriting recognition happens entirely on the tablet using a small neural network trained on a public handwritten character dataset, compiled to run natively on the device's ARM processor. There is no large language model involved, no cloud service, and no internet connection needed at any point, so the game works fully in airplane mode. Because the recognizer only wakes briefly when the player pauses writing, and the e-ink screen only redraws the parts that change, the app is described as light on battery use. Once a guess is written and confirmed, it is scored the familiar Wordle way: green for a correct letter in the correct spot, amber for a correct letter in the wrong spot, and gray for a letter not in the word, with a tracker along the bottom showing every letter tried so far. The game uses the real Wordle answer list and accepted guess list, so hidden words are common and any valid word a player writes is accepted. Players can fix a mistaken letter using the pen's eraser tip or by tapping a box to clear it. The app installs on the tablet through a tool called remagic or through the reManager and Vellum app libraries, and it runs using the standard AppLoad launcher. The project is released under the GPLv3 license and includes build-from-source instructions for anyone who wants to compile it themselves.

Yoink these prompts

Prompt 1
Walk me through installing InkWordle on my reMarkable Paper Pro using remagic.
Prompt 2
Explain how InkWordle recognizes my handwriting entirely on the tablet without the internet.
Prompt 3
Help me build InkWordle from source for my reMarkable device.
Prompt 4
Tell me how the green, amber, and gray scoring works in InkWordle.

Frequently asked questions

wtf is inkwordle?

A handwriting-only version of Wordle for the reMarkable Paper Pro tablet, with on-device letter recognition and no internet needed.

What language is inkwordle written in?

Mainly Rust. The stack also includes Rust, tract, EMNIST.

What license does inkwordle use?

You can use, modify, and share this freely, but any modified version you distribute must also be open source under the same license.

How hard is inkwordle to set up?

Setup difficulty is rated easy, with roughly 5min to a first successful run.

Who is inkwordle for?

Mainly general.

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