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NotebookLM

Upload your documents and ask questions. Free, and included in Google Workspace.

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Top pickExcellent for asking questions of your own documents, and free in Workspace for Nonprofits.

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Price

Free plan available

Nonprofit offer

Yes

Available in

🌍Anywhere

Suits

Volunteer-run · Small · Medium · Large

Included at no cost in Google Workspace for Nonprofits.

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Great for

Reading and summarising long reports, policies and funder guidelines
Building a shared knowledge notebook for a team or project
Free
Answers cite your own sources
Privacy statement is clear for Workspace accounts

Watch out for

Writing new documents from scratch (a chat assistant is better)
Sensitive data on a personal Google account
Limited to the sources you upload
Personal-account terms differ from Workspace terms
Product naming is changing

Problems it solves

“I have a 100 page funder guideline and need to find what matters”“I need to turn a long report into a short briefing for my board”“I want an AI that only answers from our own documents”“I need a quick way to learn a topic from lots of PDFs”

About NotebookLM+

NotebookLM, which Google now calls Gemini Notebook in some places, lets you upload documents, PDFs, web pages and videos and ask questions answered with citations from your own sources. It can also create summaries, study guides and audio overviews. It is useful for making sense of long reports, policies and grant guidelines.

Pricing: Included in all Google Workspace plans at no additional cost, and available free on personal Google accounts. Higher limits come with paid Google plans. Reported free limits: 100 notebooks, 50 sources per notebook, 50 chat queries per day (third-party source).

Key features+

Answers with citations to your sourcesAudio OverviewsMind maps and summariesUploads from Docs, Slides, PDFs, URLs, YouTube and audioSharing notebooks with a team

Works with (3)+

Google Workspace for NonprofitsGoogle SlidesYouTube

AI features+

The product is AI: Gemini models grounded in the sources you upload.

Data & privacy+

Google states your uploaded data is never used for model training. On personal accounts, feedback you submit may be reviewed by humans; on Workspace accounts, uploaded files, chats and outputs are not reviewed by human reviewers or used to improve generative AI models. Use a Workspace account for anything sensitive.

How sure are we?+

Partly confirmed on the vendor's pages; some details from reputable secondary sources. Prices and nonprofit programs change often, so check with NotebookLM before you commit. Rankings on Nonprofit Tools are never for sale.

Sources · last checked 2026-10-02