Lilys AI vs 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... Visit NotebookLM Source-grounded research notebook with podcast-style summaries Visit
RECATOOLS Score 7.8 / 10 8.3 / 10
Capability 8.2 8
Value for money 8 9
Ease of use 8.5 9
ASEAN readiness 8 7
API quality 4 3
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 earns its place as a go-to long-form summarizer for anyone drowning in videos, PDFs, and podcasts. Its sentence-level citations and video timestamps set it apart from generic AI summarizers, and the generous fre...

NotebookLM is Google's source-grounded AI research assistant: you upload documents, PDFs, slides, or links, and it answers, summarizes, and generates study aids strictly from those sources with inline citations, sharply...

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