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

Will give it 5 stars if... A very good concept and have the ability to become the default no. 1 note app if only the following could be improved: 1) faster rendering of the notes into audio 2) ability to scan texts from pictures and include them as a source 3) fix the shared link as a source. 4) my personal pet peeve: make it consistent with the material U/expressive design.

Extraordinary for what it is, but still very flawed. This begs the question of why they have switched so soon to a subscription for multiple uses. Faulty summaries, inaccurate "Deep Dives", and the occasional ear-splitting or hair-raising noise in the audio as well as the arbitrary limit on creations keep this from being all it could be.

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.

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.