Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM) vs ChatPDF
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM)
Source-grounded research notebooks with audio, video and slide summari...
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ChatPDF
Ask questions of any PDF and jump straight to the cited passage
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| RECATOOLS Score | 8.3 / 10 | 6.8 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | Standard plan free with a Google account: 100 notebooks, 50 sources each, standard compute limits refreshing every five hours | Free plan: 2 documents a day; no account needed to try, a free account saves history and enables multi-file chats |
| Paid from | S$6.98/month via Google AI Plus (Singapore price), with Google AI Pro at S$28.99/month | SGD 15.99/month (Plus, as shown to a Singapore visitor), or SGD 9.92/month billed yearly |
| Has API | ✗ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | Reported in the millions of monthly active users in 2026 | — |
| Founded | 2023 | 2023 |
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| Verdict | Gemini Notebook remains one of the most useful free research tools: it answers from your own sources with citations, and its Audio and Video Overviews, slide decks, quizzes and flashcards make study material easier to ab... |
ChatPDF does one job cleanly: upload a document, ask questions, and click a citation to land on the passage behind the answer. Multi-file folders, support for Word and slide files and a no-account start make it easy for... |
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