Google’s popular AI tools get your own Android app – How to use Notebooklm on your phone

Google’s powerful research assistant has acquired its own app, and Android users have acquired their first look.

Debuting last year, NoteBookLM is a free AI research assistant (running with Gemini 2.0’s multimodal understanding feature) that helps you better understand any topic. It can provide many data sources, such as PDF files, links to articles, YouTube video links, Google Docs or Slides.

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Provide some use cases, Google says that you can do something like this:

• Upload lecture recordings, textbook chapters, and research papers to break complex concepts into simple terms.
• Upload your own research to create a sophisticated presentation overview with important topics and support evidence.
• Upload brainstorming notes, market research data, and competitor research information to identify current trends, discover new product ideas, and discover hidden opportunities.

When it first launched, the tool was exclusively for browsers, but Google now releases Standalone Android App. Apple App Store List Shows the release date for May 20th, but the app Available for download Now for Android.

Here’s how the tool works:

To get started, open a new notebook and add files, links, and documents. If you have information in Notebooklm, you can get a summary that retrieves information from all sources. Everything in the summary is cited so you can see where the information comes from.

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You can then take that summary and present it in a style that will help you do your best – written summary, audio summary, or even a fake podcast session where two hosts will joke around and after about your topic. You can also interrupt, ask questions, or have conversations in a new direction, just as you are a guest on a podcast with them. There is a delay of a few seconds while the host acknowledges you, and while your questions are answered, it’s not exactly smooth, but when I tried this feature myself it was quite fun.

Google warns that Notebooklm is not always correct.

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