Open Notebook
- About
- Open-source, private alternative to NotebookLM.
- Catalogue
- No. 209
- Category
- AI
- GitHub stars
- ★ 0

Overview
Open Notebook is an open-source, privacy-focused alternative to Google's NotebookLM. You collect research material in notebooks and work with it using AI, with everything able to run 100% locally.
What it does well
Open Notebook works with 20+ AI providers, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral, Ollama and any OpenAI-compatible server. It handles PDFs, videos, audio and web pages, offers full-text and vector search, chat grounded in your sources, and multi-speaker podcast generation. The interface is available in more than a dozen languages.
Why it’s in the collection
Open Notebook gives you NotebookLM's workflow, including the podcast feature, with your choice of model and your research kept private. It is MIT-licensed.
On GitHub
- Stars
- 0
- Forks
- 0
- Commits
- 0
- Repository
- lfnovo/open-notebook
Languages
- TypeScript 55.8%
- Python 41.9%
- Other 2.3%
Compared with
NotebookLMGoogle's AI research assistant for your documents.
SurfSenseNo. 206Open-source AI agent for researching and editing your documents.
KhojNo. 204Open-source personal AI for answers from the web and your docs.
See every open-source alternative to NotebookLM in the collection.



