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NotebookLM

Google's AI research assistant that reads your documents

4.5
850 reviews 91% would recommend
✓ Free plan available Cloud (SaaS)
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What is NotebookLM?

NotebookLM is Google's AI-powered research assistant designed to help you understand complex documents. Upload your sources and the AI becomes an expert on your specific content.

Key Features

  • Source-Grounded: AI only uses your uploaded content
  • Audio Overviews: Generate podcast-style summaries
  • Q&A: Ask questions about your documents
  • Citations: References back to original sources
  • Summaries: Instant document summaries
  • Study Guides: Generate learning materials
  • Google Integration: Import from Drive and Docs

Best For

Students, researchers, lawyers, analysts, and anyone who needs to deeply understand specific documents or collections of sources.

Top Features

  • AI-powered document analysis
  • Audio Overviews (AI podcast discussions)
  • Q&A across multiple sources
  • Source citations for accuracy
  • Support for PDFs, Docs, websites, YouTube
  • Up to 500 notebooks (Plus)
  • Summarization and outline generation
  • No training on your data

User Ratings

Ease of Use
4.6
Customer Service
4.0
Features
4.5
Value for Money
4.7

Pros

  • • Generous free tier
  • • Excellent for research and studying
  • • Audio Overviews are unique and useful
  • • Strong source citation
  • • Grounded in your documents (no hallucination)
  • • Included with Google AI Pro subscription

Cons

  • • Limited to uploaded sources only
  • • No real-time web access
  • • Audio Overviews English-only currently
  • • Free tier has usage limits

Best For

Students, researchers, lawyers, analysts, and anyone who needs to deeply understand specific documents or collections of sources.

Features

Research Tools

  • Document Analysis
  • Q&A with Sources
  • Summarization
  • Source Citations
  • Multi-source Synthesis

Content Generation

  • Audio Overviews
  • Outline Generation
  • Study Guides
  • FAQ Generation

Pricing

MOST POPULAR

Free

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For everyone

  • 100 notebooks
  • 50 sources per notebook
  • 3 Audio Overviews/day
  • 50 daily queries
  • Full AI features
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Google AI Pro (includes NotebookLM Plus)

$20 month

Enhanced limits

  • 500 notebooks
  • 300 sources per notebook
  • 20 Audio Overviews/day
  • 500 daily queries
  • Sharing features
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User Reviews

Graduate Student
PhD Candidate • Education
1-10 employees
Verified

"Essential for research"

NotebookLM has transformed my research workflow. I upload papers and it helps me synthesize information across sources. The Audio Overviews are perfect for reviewing material while commuting.

Pros

Great for research, Audio Overviews are unique, free tier is generous

Cons

Only works with uploaded docs, no web access

Frequently Asked Questions

Does NotebookLM train on my data?

No, NotebookLM does not train on your data. Your uploaded documents are only used to answer your questions and are not used to improve Google's AI models.

Product Details

Vendor Google
Founded 1998
Headquarters Mountain View, CA
Company Size 50,001+ employees
Deployment Cloud (SaaS)
Mobile Apps No
Free Tier Yes
API No

Support Options

Knowledge Base Community Forum

Training

Documentation Video Tutorials

Integrations

Google Drive, Google Docs, YouTube, Websites, PDF uploads

Category

AI Research Tools

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