Google NotebookLM
Understand anything
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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.
more Bug fixes and performance improvements.
Cinematic Video Overviews expansion.
- In addition to Ultra users, Cinematic Video Overviews are now also available to Google AI Pro subscribers and AI Expanded Workspace accounts in English.
Chat Streaming and Thinking.
- Now, when you Chat with NotebookLM, the response will show up instantly, streaming in so you can read along.
- Additionally, when your response has larger sections or paragraphs, we have a smoother animation experience and, when you ask a more complex question that we need to “think” about, we’ll let you know!
1.32.7 27 Mar
Bug fixes and performance improvements
Deep Links
If you tap on a link to a Notebook or Artifact it will open directly in the mobile app (assuming you have it downloaded!)
Cinematic Video Overviews
The next evolution of the NotebookLM Studio. Unlike standard templates, these are powered by a novel combination of our most advanced models to create bespoke, immersive videos from your sources. Available now for AI Ultra users in English.
LaTex
LaTex rendering is now available in the mobile app. Now when you ask NotebookLM a question, your equations will be perfectly rendered in the Chat.
As always, submit feedback in the app or tag us on social to share your thoughts!
1.31.8 20 Mar
Bug fixes and performance improvements
1.30.10 12 Mar
Push Notifications
When you start generating an artifact (audio overviews, video overviews, slide decks, etc) feel free to exit the app. NotebookLM will now send you a notification when the generation is complete!
1.29.8 5 Mar
Slide Deck Revisions
Prompt-Based Revisions: Tweak, tailor, and tune your slides by prompting the revisions you want
1.28.10 26 Feb
Customize Video Overviews
• Choose between the Explainer (default) or Brief formats
• Select or de-select which sources you want to use
• Choose from one of our 8 preset visual styles or customize your own
• Write a prompt encouraging NotebookLM to focus on a certain topic area or tailor the content to a specific audience or difficulty level
Open Sources directly in Drive
• You can now open sources directly in their corresponding app (Google Docs, Sheets, Slices, Drive)
• If you do not have the app installed, it will open the source in a new browser tab
Chat Suggestions
• To get the conversation going, you will now see suggested questions appear in your Chat
• These questions will continue to customize based on your conversation with NotebookLM
As always, submit feedback in the app or tag us on social to share your thoughts!
1.26.0 19 Feb
Customize Video Overviews
• Choose between the Explainer (default) or Brief formats
• Select or de-select which sources you want to use
• Choose from one of our 8 preset visual styles or customize your own
• Write a prompt encouraging NotebookLM to focus on a certain topic area or tailor the content to a specific audience or difficulty level
Open Sources directly in Drive
• You can now open sources directly in their corresponding app (Google Docs, Sheets, Slices, Drive)
• If you do not have the app installed, it will open the source in a new browser tab
Chat Suggestions
• To get the conversation going, you will now see suggested questions appear in your Chat
• These questions will continue to customize based on your conversation with NotebookLM
As always, submit feedback in the app or tag us on social to share your thoughts!
1.25.8 13 Feb
Bug fixes and performance improvements
1.23.3 2 Feb
Create Video Overviews
• In one tap, make a helpful visual aid to understand a complex concept, pulling in images, diagrams, quotes, and numbers from your sources
• Great at explaining data, demonstrating processes, and making abstract concepts more tangible
Customize Infographics
• Choose between Landscape, Portrait, or Square orientation
• Change the output language
• Add a custom prompt to guide the style, color, or focus (“use a blue color theme and highlight the 3 key stats”)
Customize Slides
• Choose between two formats: Detailed (full details on the slide, meant for reading on their own) or Presenter (clean slides with just the key talking points, meant for supporting while you speak)
• Change the output language
• Change the slide deck to be shorter or longer
• Add a custom prompt to give it a high-level outline or guide the audience, style, and focus (“create a deck for beginners using a bold and playful style with a focus on step-by-step instructions”)
New Ultra plan available
• 50x more content generations, the most access to Google’s best Gemini models, priority access to new features, and up to 600 sources per notebook
As always, submit feedback in the app or tag us on social to share your thoughts!
1.22.0 22 Jan
Create Video Overviews
• In one tap, make a helpful visual aid to understand a complex concept, pulling in images, diagrams, quotes, and numbers from your sources
• Great at explaining data, demonstrating processes, and making abstract concepts more tangible
Customize Infographics
• Choose between Landscape, Portrait, or Square orientation
• Change the output language
• Add a custom prompt to guide the style, color, or focus (“use a blue color theme and highlight the 3 key stats”)
Customize Slides
• Choose between two formats: Detailed (full details on the slide, meant for reading on their own) or Presenter (clean slides with just the key talking points, meant for supporting while you speak)
• Change the output language
• Change the slide deck to be shorter or longer
• Add a custom prompt to give it a high-level outline or guide the audience, style, and focus (“create a deck for beginners using a bold and playful style with a focus on step-by-step instructions”)
New Ultra plan available
• 50x more content generations, the most access to Google’s best Gemini models, priority access to new features, and up to 600 sources per notebook
As always, submit feedback in the app or tag us on social to share your thoughts!
1.21.0 19 Jan
Bug fixes and performance improvements
1.20.1 14 Jan
Bug fixes and performance improvements
1.20.0 8 Jan
Create infographics
• Visualize key insights and distill complex information into a single, high-impact visual that makes it easier to digest.
• Easily share as an image.
Create slide decks
• Go from sources to story in a snap — get a polished slide deck made for you in one tap.
Check out @NotebookLM on social for cool examples and inspo on how to best take advantage of these two new outputs!
As always, submit feedback in the app or tag us on social to share your thoughts.
1.18.0 04/12/2025
Add images as a source
• Upload photos and screenshots from your device, or use its camera from within the NotebookLM app.
• Import images like screenshots, infographics, handwritten notes, whiteboards, printed handouts, and more.
Save your Audio Overview progress
• Never lose your place in your listening material again—if you pause or close the app while listening to an Audio Overview, your exact playback position is now automatically saved for next time.
As always, submit feedback in the app or tag @NotebookLM on social to share your thoughts!
1.17.0 18/11/2025
Big updates rolling out this week!
Create flashcards & quizzes
• Memorize key terms, important dates and core concepts from your sources with flashcards.
• Test your comprehension and challenge yourself with quizzes.
• Customize the topic, set the difficulty, and choose the number of cards or questions.
Select and unselect sources within a notebook
• Don’t want to use all the sources in your notebook? You can now temporarily select and unselect sources while chatting or creating an Audio Overview, so the response is only based on the sources you care about right now.
Messages in chat no longer expire
• Chats are now saved automatically across sessions, so you can resume chatting later without losing context. As always, your work remains private, and you can delete your chats at any time.
Major quality improvements for chats
• Chat in NotebookLM now has 50% better quality, a 4x larger context window, and 6x longer conversation memory — all powered by the latest Gemini models.
1.16.0 06/11/2025
Bug fixes.
1.15.1 30/10/2025
Bug fixes & more UI polishes.
1.15.0 21/10/2025
Here’s what’s rolling out this week:
Source discovery
- You can now easily discover sources across the web and add them to NotebookLM within the mobile app
Multiple Audio Overviews
- We have redesigned the Studio tab and now you can generate multiple Audio Overviews within a notebook
UI refinements
- We have polished the app UI to give you a more intuitive and smooth experience
1.14.0 07/10/2025
Source discovery - You can now easily discover sources across the web and add them to NotebookLM within the mobile app
Multiple Audio Overviews - We have redesigned the Studio tab and now you can generate multiple Audio Overviews within a notebook
UI refinements - We have polished the app UI to give you a more intuitive and smooth experience
1.13.0 23/09/2025
More bug fixes!
1.12.0 09/09/2025
Here’s what’s rolling out this week:
Add Audio Files as Sources
• You can now upload your voice memos, podcasts, and meeting recordings to new and existing notebooks.
Expanded Language Support
• The app now supports 28 additional languages and dialects, bringing the total to over 75!
1.11.0 29/08/2025
We've listened to your feedback and are excited to announce a major update focused on improving your audio experience in NotebookLM. Here’s what’s rolling out this week:
Faster Audio Loading
• Say goodbye to long loading times after pressing play on an Audio Overview. We’ve dramatically reduced the buffering time for Audio Overviews (by up to 95%!), so you can start listening faster.
Audio Overview Customization
• Tailor your Audio Overviews to your exact needs. You can now select a preferred language, adjust the length (English only for now), and add prompts to guide the audio generations.
Improved Stability
• We’ve rebuilt our audio experience to make generation, playback, and download more stable and reliable.
As always, submit feedback in the app or tag @NotebookLM on social media to share your thoughts, bug reports, hopes, and dreams with us.
1.10.0 12/08/2025
Bug fixes and stability improvements
1.9.0 23/07/2025
Hebrew is now a supported language in NotebookLM!
1.8.0 14/07/2025
Minor bug fixes
1.7.1 01/07/2025
Bug fixes and performance improvements.
Cinematic Video Overviews expansion.
- In addition to Ultra users, Cinematic Video Overviews are now also available to Google AI Pro subscribers and AI Expanded Workspace accounts in English.
Chat Streaming and Thinking.
- Now, when you Chat with NotebookLM, the response will show up instantly, streaming in so you can read along.
- Additionally, when your response has larger sections or paragraphs, we have a smoother animation experience and, when you ask a more complex question that we need to “think” about, we’ll let you know!
more Version 1.32.7 27 Mar
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