Anara vs Gemini Notebook

Anara

• Researchers who want answers grounded in their own library of papers
• Working across hundreds of files and checking each claim against its source
• Zotero and Mendeley users, whose libraries import on every plan
• Writing with citations in a note editor or in Microsoft Word

Gemini Notebook

• Students and researchers working from a set of their own documents
• Turning long documents or lecture material into audio summaries
• Answers that cite the source passage they came from

Anara

• The Free plan's AI usage limit refreshes daily, and each upload is capped at 20 MB or 120 pages.
• Choosing a model, OCR and the Google Drive, Notion and OneDrive connectors need Pro; Deep Search and Model Council need Max.
• The pricing page's scripts show the prices recorded here to visitors without a paid plan, while its initial HTML lists an earlier, higher set (Plus $10, Pro $20, billed yearly).
• The desktop app is for Mac only and there is no Android app. Anara's FAQ says it does not currently offer a student discount.

Gemini Notebook

• Paid tiers are not sold on their own: higher limits come with a Google AI Plus, Pro or Ultra subscription.
• The free Standard tier allows 100 notebooks and 50 sources per notebook.
• Usage limits are compute-based. The quota refreshes every 5 hours until a weekly limit is reached.
• The mobile app cannot yet generate or view notes, mind maps, reports or data tables.

Anara

Chat across your library

Ask questions of a single file, hundreds of files in a folder or the entire library. Anara says one conversation can work across up to 10,000 files.

Answers cited to the passage

Every answer carries inline citations that open the exact passage in the source document, in numbered form or an academic citation style.

Agent and paper search

The agent searches your library, the web and academic databases such as PubMed, arXiv and JSTOR, then returns a cited synthesis. It can also import files and reorganize folders on request.

Write and cite

The note editor matches your writing to your library and the web to suggest citations, and builds formatted reference lists. An add-in brings the same tools into Microsoft Word.

File handling

Reads PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Markdown, EPUB, images, audio and video; audio and video are transcribed automatically. OCR for scanned documents is part of Pro and above.

Deep Search and Model Council

On the Max plans, Deep Search runs multi-step research across your library and the web, and Model Council puts one question to several models at once.

Gemini Notebook

Grounded chat with citations

Chat with a notebook to get answers based on the sources you added, with in-line citations that point back to them.

Many source types

Add PDFs, Google Docs, Slides and Sheets, Word and PowerPoint files, web URLs, public YouTube videos, audio files and images. A source can hold up to 500,000 words or 200 MB.

Audio and Video Overviews

Turns a notebook's sources into an Audio Overview or a Video Overview. In the mobile app, Audio Overviews can be downloaded for offline listening.

Study and presentation outputs

Generates mind maps, reports, flashcards, quizzes, infographics and slide decks from your sources.

Deep Research

An agentic feature that browses up to hundreds of websites, writes a multi-page report and lets you import the results and sources into a notebook.

Mobile apps

Apps for Android phones and tablets, iPhone and iPad. Share a website, PDF or YouTube video from another app straight into a notebook.

Anara

• Free$0

  Limited AI usage that refreshes daily, uploads of up to 20 MB or 120 pages each, and Zotero and Mendeley connectors.

• Plus$8

  per seat / month, billed yearly ($96); $10 billed monthly

  A larger weekly usage limit, credits for extra usage, uploads of up to 100 MB or 600 pages, science database connectors and 5 collaborators per folder.

• Pro$16

  per seat / month, billed yearly ($192); $20 billed monthly

  4x the usage of Plus, a choice of every AI model, uploads of up to 300 MB or 10,000 pages, OCR, cloud storage connectors and 50 collaborators per folder.

• Max 5x$80

  per seat / month, billed yearly ($960); $100 billed monthly

  5x the usage of Pro, plus Deep Search, Model Council, uploads with no size or page limit and unlimited folder collaborators.

• Max 20x$160

  per seat / month, billed yearly ($1,920); $200 billed monthly

  The same features as Max 5x with 20x the usage of Pro.

• EnterpriseCustom

  SSO/SAML and SCIM provisioning, SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certified security, SharePoint live sync and a shared Slack channel for support.

Gemini Notebook

• Standard$0

  Free with a Google account: 100 notebooks, 50 sources per notebook and standard usage limits.

• Plus$4.99

  per month, with Google AI Plus

  200 notebooks, 100 sources per notebook and usage limits two times higher than standard.

• Pro$19.99

  per month, with Google AI Pro

  500 notebooks, 300 sources per notebook and usage limits four times higher than standard.

• UltraFrom $99.99

  per month, with Google AI Ultra

  500 notebooks, 500 or 600 sources per notebook depending on the Ultra tier, and usage limits 5x or 20x higher than AI Pro.

Anara

• Annual discount

  Save 20% with yearly billing

  Billed yearly, Plus is $8 a seat per month against $10 billed monthly, Pro is $16 against $20 and Max 5x is $80 against $100. The pricing page labels the yearly option as a 20% saving.

Gemini Notebook

• Education

  Free Pro plan for college students for a year

  Google's US subscriptions page says college students get a free Google AI Pro plan for one year. Google AI Pro provides the Pro tier of Gemini Notebook.