Is Rocketbook Discontinued? BIC's Exit, the New Owner and What It Means for Your Notebook (2026)

Rocketbook is still sold and supported, but under a new owner. BIC, which agreed to buy Rocketbook in 2020, announced on December 4, 2025 that it would discontinue the business and wind down its operations by the first quarter of 2026. Global Printing & Packaging, the Massachusetts company that had been manufacturing Rocketbook products, then bought the brand. Rocketbook's About page says "All Rocketbook products and the Rocketbook app remain fully supported," and at our October 27, 2026 check the store was selling notebooks and the iPhone app had an October update.

We make Ophaya smart pens, which capture handwriting a different way, so we have a stake in where Rocketbook owners go next. What follows comes from BIC, Rocketbook and the bank that financed the sale, as their pages read on October 27, 2026.

Who owns Rocketbook now

Global Printing & Packaging (GPP), headquartered in Marlborough, Massachusetts. Cambridge Savings Bank, which financed the deal, announced it on March 10, 2026 and said GPP had been "the exclusive original equipment manufacturer for Rocketbook products" before buying the brand. According to that release, the purchase lets GPP keep selling the notebooks through its existing manufacturing, logistics and retail channels and "support the underlying Rocketbook mobile application."

BIC's release says the business was "not aligned with the Group's ambitions," and chief executive Rob Versloot pointed to "significant declines in net sales and profitability" at Rocketbook and BIC's tattoo brands since it bought them.

If a search sends you to Rocketbook's older An Update on Rocketbook page, keep its age in mind. It says "BIC is exiting the Rocketbook business" and that a sale to another company "is unknown at this time," so it was written before GPP stepped in. The About page is the current one.

Is Rocketbook going out of business?

No. BIC left the business, and the brand carried on with a new owner. "Discontinue" in BIC's December release describes BIC shutting down its own Rocketbook operation; GPP's purchase was announced three months later. The About page calls the change "about growth, innovation, and long-term investment in the Rocketbook ecosystem."

What getrocketbook.com sells now

At our October 27, 2026 check, the Notebooks page listed the Core, Mini, Flip and Multi Subject notebooks (each labeled Next Gen) along with the Fusion, Fusion Plus and Pro, and none of them carried a sold-out label there. The Core was $34.99 in Executive size and $38.99 in Letter, with one Pilot FriXion pen and a microfiber towel in the box. The menu flagged a Rocketplanner as "NEW!", which Rocketbook calls "The ultimate smart planner. (not reusable)".

The store's Sale link opens a "Final Few Products" collection, where older items such as the Wave and the Matrix have "(Final Sale)" in their names. Both of those product pages said "Last Chance" and "No returns or exchanges," so read the label before you check out; the current notebooks weren't marked that way. Walmart's site also had a Rocketbook brand page listing Core and Pro notebooks.

Is the Rocketbook app still working?

It was at our check. Besides the About page's "fully supported" line, both stores showed recent work on it: Google Play listed an update on August 7, 2026, and the App Store showed version 4.0.1 from October 7, two months after version 4.0.0. The app is free. Its Play listing names the places it can send scans, among them Google Drive, Dropbox, OneNote, Evernote, Slack and email.

What the sale means for your notebook

The notebook in your bag works the way it did last year. You write with a FriXion pen, scan the page, then wipe it with water and the microfiber towel. Rocketbook's update page says its products "can still be used without the App to write, erase, and reuse," which would still hold if the app ever went away.

Pens aren't tied to Rocketbook either. FriXion is a Pilot line, and Rocketbook's pen guide (updated August 7, 2026) says the notebooks are "designed to be used with Pilot FriXion pens." Rocketbook's own accessories page still listed a FriXion 3-pack and single Clicker pens in October, though a few bigger packs showed as sold out. For ghosting or scans that keep failing, our Rocketbook problems guide goes through the fixes from Rocketbook's help center.

How to back up your Rocketbook scans

Scans you already sent to Google Drive, Dropbox or email are sitting in those accounts. The ones worth a look are scans that never left the app's history. Rocketbook's update page put it directly: "In order to ensure all your notes are saved indefinitely, be sure to upload them to your cloud platform of choice using the Rocketbook app." It also explains how to resend in bulk:

• On iPhone or iPad, open History, tap More Actions, choose Select, then Select All, and Share or Resend.
• On Android, open Scans, tap More Actions, choose Select, pick the scans you want and share them to your storage.

That page predates the 4.0 app, so a menu may have moved. The same page names Adobe Scan, Genius Scan, CamScanner and iScanner among scanning apps that work with Rocketbook pages, which is your fallback if the official app ever stopped working (you would file each PDF yourself). We looked at the same question for another brand in our Livescribe status check.

If you want to switch, compare how notes get captured

If you're shopping anyway, sort the options by how handwriting becomes a file.

• Scan-based notebooks, Rocketbook included, capture the finished page when you photograph it, and so does plain paper with a scanning app. They cost little, and the scan is the step that fails in dim light.
• Smart pens record strokes as you write on their own printed paper. You don't photograph anything, but you depend on that brand's paper and app.
• E-ink tablets like the reMarkable or Kindle Scribe keep pages on the device and cost many times what a notebook does.

Our reusable notebook guide compares Rocketbook with LCD boards, and the Rocketbook alternative page puts it side by side with our pen.

Where an Ophaya smart pen fits

An Ophaya pen captures while you write. A small infrared camera in it reads a printed dot pattern, and each stroke goes over Bluetooth to the free Ophaya Pro+ app on iPhone, iPad or Android, so there is no scan and no scanning app. If your phone is in another room, the pen stores about 1,000 pages and syncs them when you reconnect.

The catch is the paper. Our pen only captures on Ophaya dot-code paper or the Ophaya LCD writing tablet, and the paper isn't erasable, so you keep buying notebooks or refills. Ophaya Pro+ is also one company's app, and the backup advice above applies to us as much as to Rocketbook. Our guide to what happens to notes when a platform changes covers exporting from any notes app. In our 3-in-1 set ($99.95), the reusable part is the 10-inch LCD tablet: write on it with the pen, tap to save the page, then press erase. If your Rocketbook works and scanning doesn't bother you, the ownership change alone is no reason to replace it.

Frequently asked questions

Did BIC discontinue Rocketbook?

Yes. On December 4, 2025, BIC said it would discontinue Rocketbook and wind down its operations by the first quarter of 2026. Global Printing & Packaging bought the brand afterward, and Rocketbook notebooks were still on sale in late October 2026.

Who owns Rocketbook now?

Global Printing & Packaging of Marlborough, Massachusetts, according to Rocketbook's About page. The March 2026 financing announcement says GPP had been the exclusive manufacturer of Rocketbook products before the purchase.

Where can I buy a Rocketbook?

Rocketbook's own store at getrocketbook.com listed the Core, Mini, Flip, Fusion and Pro notebooks at our check. Anything in its Final Few section is final sale.

Can I use a Rocketbook without the app?

Yes. Rocketbook says its products can be used without the app to write, erase and reuse, and that scanning apps such as Adobe Scan and Genius Scan work with its pages.