# Gemini Notebook

> Google's AI research assistant that answers from your own sources

Gemini Notebook, formerly NotebookLM, is Google's AI research assistant. You add sources such as PDFs, Google Docs, websites, YouTube videos and audio files, then chat with the notebook and get answers with in-line citations back to those sources. It also turns sources into audio and video overviews, mind maps, reports, flashcards and quizzes.

- **Category:** AI Assistants
- **Made by:** Google
- **Website:** https://notebook.google
- **Runs on:** Web, iOS, Android
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 4, 2026

## Pricing

Gemini Notebook has a free plan. Paid plans start at $4.99 per month (Google AI Plus).

- **Pricing model:** Free plan
- **Free plan:** Standard tier, free with a Google account: 100 notebooks, 50 sources per notebook and standard usage limits that refresh every 5 hours up to a weekly cap.
- **Free trial:** None listed.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 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. |
| Ultra | From $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. |

Read from https://gemini.google/us/subscriptions/?hl=en on Oct 4, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Gemini Notebook before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **Free Pro plan for college students for a year** (Education): 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. Source: https://gemini.google/us/subscriptions/?hl=en

## Key features

- **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.

## Good for

- 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

## Worth knowing

- 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.

## What people say

- **App Store rating of the iPhone and iPad app:** 4.9 out of 5 from 62,132 ratings in the United States, read Oct 5, 2026. This is the store's rating of the app, not a score from ToolGPA. Source: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id6737527615

## Works with

Google Docs, Google Slides, Google Sheets, YouTube, Google Play Books

**Tags:** Chat assistant, AI search, Notes, AI features

## Alternatives

- [ChatGPT](https://toolgpa.com/tools/chatgpt): OpenAI's general-purpose AI assistant for chat, images and voice. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/chatgpt-vs-notebooklm)
- [Claude](https://toolgpa.com/tools/claude): Anthropic's AI assistant for writing, analysis and coding. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/claude-vs-notebooklm)
- [Gemini](https://toolgpa.com/tools/gemini): Google's AI assistant, tied into Gmail, Docs and other Google apps. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/gemini-vs-notebooklm)
- [Perplexity](https://toolgpa.com/tools/perplexity): AI search assistant that answers questions with cited sources. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/notebooklm-vs-perplexity)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 4, 2026:

- https://notebook.google/
- https://support.google.com/notebooklm/?hl=en
- https://support.google.com/gemininotebook/answer/16164461?hl=en
- https://support.google.com/gemininotebook/answer/16213268?hl=en
- https://support.google.com/gemininotebook/answer/17670842?hl=en
- https://support.google.com/gemininotebook/answer/16215270?hl=en
- https://support.google.com/gemininotebook/answer/16296687?hl=en
- https://gemini.google/us/subscriptions/?hl=en

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