Google Launches NotebookLM App For Android and iOS
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/05/19/211254/google-launches-notebooklm-app-for-android-and-ios
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> This native experience starts on a homepage of your notebooks with filters at the top for Recent, Shared, Title, and Downloaded. The app features a light and dark mode based on your device's system theme with no manual toggle. Each colorful card features the notebook name, emoji, number of sources, and date, as well as a play button for Audio Overviews. There's background playback and offline support for the podcast-style experience (the fullscreen player has a nice glow), while you can "Join" the AI hosts (in beta) to ask follow-up questions.
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> You get a "Create new" button at the bottom of the list to add PDFs, websites, YouTube videos, and text. Notably, the NotebookLM app will appear in the Android and iOS share sheet to quickly add sources. When you open a notebook, there's a bottom bar for the list of Sources, Chat Q&A, and Studio. It's similar to the current mobile website, with the native client letting users ditch the Progressive Web App. Out of the gate, there are phone and (straightforward) tablet interfaces.
You can download the app for [2]iOS and [3]Android using their respective links.
[1] https://9to5google.com/2025/05/19/notebooklm-app-launch/
[2] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/google-notebooklm/id6737527615
[3] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.labs.language.tailwind&pli=1
No global availability; no thanks (Score:2)
They deliberately exclude ~1/5 of the population of the planet, so they can shove it.
Meanwhile (Score:2)
I am still waiting decades for a half-decent Google Sheets app for iPhone.
For those that don't know what this is (Score:2)
...like I didn't, here are snippets from Wikipedia:
- NotebookLM (Google NotebookLM) is a research and note-taking online tool developed by Google Labs that uses artificial intelligence (AI), specifically Google Gemini, to assist users in interacting with their documents.
- NotebookLM can generate summaries, explanations, and answers based on content uploaded by users. It also includes "Audio Overviews," which summarize documents in a conversational, podcast-like format.
- In addition to text files, NotebookLM
Level playing field new assumptions (Score:2)
Now you don't need much in the way of service providers to create decent expository material, it will just mean more material competing for your ever diminished attention.
There is a deluge of content ... it's value diminishes as the amount produced increases.
Impressive Use Of AI (Score:2)
Take it from a terminal skeptic, NotebookLM is a really impressive use of AI. I've yet to use the phone app, but I highly recommend that you take a look at NotebookLM.
Re: (Score:2)
Still requires to send everything you do or even think about to a third party, which is not that great.
Re: (Score:2)
I just installed the phone version and put a few papers into it (I'm already familiar with to test the output), and asked a couple questions and the results were shockingly good for both summaries and synthesis.
Re: (Score:2)
The AI hosts thing is neat the first few times, but the novelty wears off quickly. That's probably just as well, because Google has already reduced the number of daily free "credits".