Google NotebookLM 4+

Name: Google NotebookLM
Rating: 4.3 (247 reviews)
Author: Google

Understand anything

Google

- 4.3 • 247 Ratings

- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases

Description

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 YOUR OWN WAY
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.

May 23, 2025

Version 1.0.6

This release includes lots of bug fixes and performance improvements based on your feedback reports, with more to come soon! Details for our fellow nerds below:

More reliable chat
• Fixed an issue where your chats and descriptions could sometimes vanish
• Reduced errors during the "add source" flow
• Reduced network timeouts during chats

Improved source handling
• Fixed "0 source limit" error when adding sources
• Fixed source UI being unoptimized for some small screens

Visual polish & accessibility
• Improved the appearance of project tabs in Dark Mode, and the project description loader now has a smoother dark mode animation
• Icons in the Playback and Studio sections now use clearer symbols
• Optimized UI for large OS font settings

General stability & performance
• Fixed a number of bugs that were causing crashes
• Showing media control notifications more reliably when audio is playing
• Fixed localization for some languages, ensuring the app accurately speaks your language

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

4.3 out of 5

247 Ratings

Better for on the go

I really enjoy notebook lm on desktop more than iPhone. I utilize the mind map a lot and I assume because of how much information there can be, you can’t get that on mobile which is fine. It does make it easier to listen to the podcast because I used to have to download it or open it through chrome on my phone. Now I can just go on the app and listen. Not as many tools on the mobile version, but it’s good if you want to listen to the podcast in your commute or on the go. You still have the chat to ask questions and you can upload resources on mobile too. Not bad, but for long study sessions I would probably use my laptop desktop version. On the go or if I need to look at something real quick I’d use the mobile app.

Has potential

I like that you can upload way more documents per notebook than say a ChatGPT thread, but there are definitely some things that could improve. Be able to create and save, within the notebook, multiple podcasts so you can focus on different aspects of the material. Save the chat thread so it can be reviewed later vs having to re-ask questions. Have multiple chat threads so each person accessing the notebook can have their own chat thread and view other threads with the option to set your own thread as private. Also, better formatting for when you request to be quizzed, look to Notability and ChatGPT.

It is Awesome

This app is truly awesome. When I first heard about it, I set the notification when it is first available. Today, I finally got to try it out and I’ve experimented with a few documents to see if the podcast voice overview works. And yes, It works incredibly well. The only issue I’ve encountered so far is that the interactive feature, which is still in its beta phase, doesn’t seem to be working properly. When I click on it, it just appears on the screen and does not do anything. Other than that, I’m impressed with the concept and its potential, especially as a student. I’m hopeful that the developer team will work on fixing this issue. I’m eagerly looking forward to future updates.

The developer, Google, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

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Information

Seller

Google LLC

Size

95.5 MB

Category

Productivity

Compatibility

iPhone: Requires iOS 17.0 or later.

iPad: Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later.

Languages

English, Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bulgarian, Burmese, Cambodian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Korean, Kyrgyz, Laotian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Malayalam, Marathi, Mongolian, Nepali, Norwegian Bokmål, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Simplified Chinese, Singhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Zulu