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  Open Notebook

  
    An open source, privacy-focused alternative to Google's Notebook LM!
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 A private, multi-model, 100% local, full-featured alternative to Notebook LM

!New Notebook

In a world dominated by Artificial Intelligence, having the ability to think 🧠 and acquire new knowledge 💡, is a skill that should not be a privilege for a few, nor restricted to a single provider.

Open Notebook empowers you to:
- 🔒 Control your data - Keep your research private and secure
- 🤖 Choose your AI models - 20+ providers including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral, Ollama and any OpenAI-compatible server (LM Studio, vLLM)
- 📚 Organize multi-modal content - PDFs, videos, audio, web pages, and more
- 🎙️ Generate professional podcasts - Advanced multi-speaker podcast generation
- 🔍 Search intelligently - Full-text and vector search across all your content
- 💬 Chat with context - AI conversations powered by your research
- 🌐 Multi-language UI - English, Bengali, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified & Traditional), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Turkish

Learn more about our project at https://www.open-notebook.ai

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 🆚 Open Notebook vs Google Notebook LM

| Feature | Open Notebook | Google Notebook LM | Advantage |
|---------|---------------|--------------------|-----------|
| Privacy & Control | Self-hosted, your data | Google cloud only | Complete data sovereignty |
| AI Provider Choice | 20+ providers, cloud or local (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Ollama, LM Studio, etc.) | Google models only | Flexibility and cost optimization |
| Podcast Speakers | 1-4 speakers with custom profiles | 2 speakers only | Extreme flexibility |
| Content Transformations | Custom and built-in | Limited options | Unlimited processing power |
| API Access | Full REST API | No API | Complete automation |
| Deployment | Docker, cloud, or local | Google hosted only | Deploy anywhere |
| Citations | Answers cite the sources, notes and insights they used | Comprehensive with sources | Research integrity |
| Customization | Open source, fully customizable | Closed system | Unlimited extensibility |
| Cost | Pay only for AI usage | Free tier + Monthly subscription | Transparent and controllable |

Why Choose Open Notebook?
- 🔒 Privacy First: Your sensitive research stays completely private
- 💰 Cost Control: Choose cheaper AI providers or run locally with Ollama
- 🎙️ Better Podcasts: Full script con

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Latest release

Security release — we recommend all users upgrade. v1.15.1 closes gaps in how sources are processed and requires content-core 2.2.1, which hardens URL fetching. It also ships the documentation rewrite and a handful of small fixes. Validated with the backend and frontend suites and a hands-on pass over the published 1.15.1 image.

 🔒 Security

- Source processing now enforces the uploads-directory and URL checks in the background worker itself, so they apply on every path that processes a source, not only when a source is created.
- Requires content-core 2.2.1 or later, which refuses link-local