Google NotebookLM

Google LLC

About this app

Turn complexity into clarity with NotebookLM, your brain’s new best friend. Join the millions of students, creators, researchers, professionals, CEOs, and more who are saving time, getting stuff done, and learning in new ways.

“NotebookLM Blew Our Mind” – Hard Fork
“One of the most compelling and completely flabbergasting demonstrations of AI’s potential yet.” – The Wall Street Journal

Now, with the NotebookLM app, you can create and access notebooks, ask questions whenever you think of them, and listen to your podcast-style Audio Overviews on the go with background playback and offline support.

📚 UPLOAD SOURCES
Upload all your long and complex PDFs, websites, YouTube videos, or text into a notebook.

💬 INSIGHTS YOU CAN TRUST
NotebookLM becomes an expert on your sources, summarizing them and making interesting connections. Then, you can ask it questions about, well, anything — and you can trust the answers, since your sources are cited in-line.

🎧 LEARN ON YOUR TERMS
Long blocks of text not your preferred way to learn? Transform what you uploaded into something more your speed, like a podcast-style audio discussion with two engaging AI hosts. You can even join the show to ask questions or steer the conversation in a different direction.

Ratings and reviews

The app has a nice interface and functions well for what it has but it is missing a lot of the features from the web version that even the web PWA had included. You can't generate flashcards or anything on your notebook other than the audio overview so it is really only useful for that one thing.

Not noticeably better than the mobile site. Also, there is a bug when you create a new notebook from a web site source. If the import fails, then you'll be left with an empty notebook. From that point, clicking the "Add a source" button doesn't work with a toast saying "This notebook has reached its 0 source limit." You'll need to delete the notebook and start over. This simple scenario should have been tested/fixed before release.

I am enjoying using this app however there are times when I use the interactive function where the convo with the hosts answering suddenly cuts out. and this has led to a few incomplete conversations that I can't recover. Edit: taking off another star because today the app started cutting out the audio all together just a few minutes into them talking consistently. it's gotten to the point where I cannot complete a conversation with them about my topic.

What’s new

Thanks for using this early version of the NotebookLM app! This release includes lots of bug fixes and performance improvements based on your feedback reports, with more to come soon.

As always, submit feedback in the app or tag @NotebookLM on social to share your thoughts, bug reports, hopes, and dreams with us.