Lilys AI vs Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM)
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Lilys AI
Turn hours of YouTube videos, PDFs, and podcasts into structured, cite...
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Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM)
Source-grounded research notebook with podcast-style summaries
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.8 / 10 | 8.3 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | Free plan: 10 Speed Boosts/month, unlimited basic AI notes | — |
| Paid from | Paid from ~$4.99/mo (Starter); Basic/Pro tiers vary by source — verify on lilys.ai/pricing | Free (Standard) tier; paid access bundled into Google AI subscriptions — Plus ~$7.99/mo |
| Has API | ✗ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | Hundreds of thousands of users globally (early 2026, self-reported) | Reported in the millions of monthly active users in 2026 |
| Founded | 2023 | 2023 |
| Maker | Independent | — |
| Verdict | Lilys AI remains the strongest long-form summarizer for anyone buried in videos, PDFs, and podcasts, and by mid-2026 it's grown to roughly 1.2 million users. Sentence-level citations tied to video timestamps are the real... |
NotebookLM has a genuinely distinct shape among AI tools: it answers from the sources you upload, with inline citations, which keeps hallucination noticeably lower than open-ended chatbots. Audio Overviews — two AI hosts... |
| Full review → | Full review → |
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