Logically vs Gemini Notebook

Logically

• Students who want references, notes and drafts in one workspace
• People moving a library over from Zotero, Mendeley or EndNote
• Writers who cite in Microsoft Word from a shared reference library
• Asking questions across a whole folder of uploaded papers

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

Logically

• The free plan allows 5 AI chat messages, 5 AI commands and 5 autosuggestions a day, with 100 MB of storage.
• Free accounts are limited to files of 25 MB or 200 pages, a 2-entry automatic bibliography per document and watermarked PDF export.
• Advanced and reasoning AI models are reserved for the Unlimited plan.
• The site lists a web app, a Chrome extension and a Word add-in; it mentions no mobile or desktop apps.

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.

Logically

Document Writer

An editor for notes and full papers with AI autosuggestions, citations pulled from your library and an automatic bibliography. Paid plans export to PDF, Markdown and DOCX without a watermark.

Reference Manager

Stores PDFs, EPUBs, web pages and DOIs with citation details filled in automatically, organized by folders and tags. It imports RIS, BibTeX and CFF files exported from other managers.

AI research assistant

Answers with inline citations in three modes: from your uploaded files, from a Semantic Scholar database of 200 million papers, or from Google search.

File Annotator

Text and area highlights, sticky notes and comments on files in the library, with an Ask AI option that summarizes or explains what you have marked.

Citations in Microsoft Word

A free Word add-in inserts citations and bibliographies from your library in more than 10,000 styles. It supports Word on the web and Microsoft 365 on Mac and Windows.

Chrome extension

A side panel answers questions about the page you are reading with cited sources, and a toolbar button saves papers and books to the reference manager.

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.

Logically

• Free$0

  All products with standard AI models, 5 chat messages, 5 AI commands and 5 autosuggestions a day, and 100 MB of reference and file storage.

• Unlimited$12

  per user / month, billed yearly; $30 billed monthly

  Unlimited AI chat, commands and autosuggestions, advanced and reasoning AI models, unlimited storage and an admin portal for teams.

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.

Logically

• Annual discount

  Save 60% with yearly billing

  The Unlimited plan is $12 per user a month billed yearly against $30 billed monthly. The pricing page labels the yearly option as saving 60%.

• Education

  Extra 50% off the first year for students

  Students who sign up with a university email and finish the product tours get a 50% coupon for the first year of the Unlimited yearly plan. It expires 72 hours after the tours.

• Other savings

  Tiered discount for multiple seats

  Unlimited plan pricing is tiered, so the per-seat price falls as more seats are bought. The pricing FAQ points institutions and nonprofits to the same seat tiers.

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.