Google Launches NotebookLM App For Android and iOS 26
Google has launched the NotebookLM app for Android and iOS, offering a native mobile experience with offline support, audio overviews, and integration into the system share sheet for adding sources like PDFs and YouTube videos. 9to5Google reports: 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.
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 iOS and Android using their respective links.
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 iOS and Android using their respective links.
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.
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Kind of like using slashdot...or pretty much any other website of any kind.
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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.
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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".
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I've found it useful for reviewing things like insurance quotes and policies, employee policies and agreements, and other documents written in legalese. You can ask it for information in the document, and it provides quick answers, and links to the parts of the document that cover the answer. You DO want to actually check the links, because it does (like other AI tools) hallucinate. But it's still better than having to dig through the document yourself.
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This is a great idea for leveraging AI that I had not considered.
I am, however, a bit leery about uploading contracts like insurance policies into anyone's AI. That's a lot of personally identifiable information to leak onto the web.
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Well the good news is, just about every possible fact about you has already leaked into the web, so you're probably fine!
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:3)
...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 can process PDFs, Google Docs, websites, and Google Slides. It can only process videos that have a transcript or subtitles attached as it cannot extract transcripts from videos that lack it.
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I've seen people use it for role playing games. The upload the entire rulebook and then ask it questions, and it responds with answers and references.
I'm going to give it a try with some notes I have made, just to see how well it works. I use Joplin for note taking and I'd love to see something like this in it. One of the few actually useful uses of an LLM.
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It sounds like they intend to pull customers from Jupyter Notebook and then kill the project in a few years when they get bored with it.
Level playing field new assumptions (Score:2)
There is a deluge of content
Do they cancel it soonish? (Score:1)
I am just wondering, I reactivated my mac, because the power adapter of my fail Windows laptop is broken. ... Jitsi.app
I found an app that I did not install super long ago, but did not remember what it is
Thy it is a Yabber client, and my default route/main server was: talk.google.com ...
Broken ...
I guess if I dig deep in my memory, I find about 10 or more "projects" that more or less suddenly vanished.
And who needs "always on AI" on a mobile device?
I must be pretty odd that I feel not to fit into this ...
Seriously? (Score:1)
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Can you please point me to a link that doesn't spy on you? Go ahead, find one if you can.
This is the real world, every link, every app, spies on you.
Cool. Now give us a local only option. (Score:2)
I would love a tool like this for my fictional universes, where I have literally thousands of pages of background information that come to me in fits and starts. But I sure as shit don't want Google aggregating my fictional universes in their servers. If I could have a local tool capable of the same thing, I'd be all about it. Surely a few thousand pages of text could be searched by a locally hosted AI? Preferably one where I don't have to spend six months trying to set it up.
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Good luck, that's not how "free" software works. You want privacy? You've got to pay.
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Good luck, that's not how "free" software works. You want privacy? You've got to pay.
I'd be happy to pay a reasonable amount for a local only option. Reasonable being under $200, one time, forever own. No, monthly payments of "ONLY" $20 forever, and ever, and ever, is not reasonable to me. I don't really subscribe to anything outside of utilities. And I don't consider television or streaming to be utilities.
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I suppose you're going to also want regular updates and new features, for that one-time price?
Sorry, your price is too low. AI is expensive to develop and run, they aren't going to give it away, or sell it for a one-time "reasonable" fee.
I subscribe to GitHub Copilot, for $10 per month. WSJ says Microsoft is losing at lest $20 per month per person. https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai... [wsj.com]
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I suppose you're going to also want regular updates and new features, for that one-time price?
For a local only install that I'd keep offline? Not really. So long as there isn't some game-killing bug installed with it by default.
Sorry, your price is too low. AI is expensive to develop and run, they aren't going to give it away, or sell it for a one-time "reasonable" fee.
I subscribe to GitHub Copilot, for $10 per month. WSJ says Microsoft is losing at lest $20 per month per person. https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai... [wsj.com]
Well, I said what I'm willing to pay today. I have zero problem paying for additional upgrades through time. I have mail clients that I bought every upgrade for until they started cramming AI features into them. I buy every upgrade to my DAWs. I'm not some unreasonable "Gimme everything for free" idiot. I don't mind paying for new features. i do mind being told I will pay for
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Well, lucky for you, there are open source tools that can run open source LLMs, all on your desktop!
https://www.tenupsoft.com/blog... [tenupsoft.com].
nonsense (Score:1)