Looking to replace NotebookLM? These open source alternatives give you the same core workflow without the lock-in - free to use, often self-hostable, and auditable on GitHub. Compare licenses, languages and project activity, then switch on your own terms.
Khoj is a personal AI app that acts as your second brain. Chat with any local or online LLM, get answers from your own documents and the internet, and reach it from your browser, desktop, phone, Obsidian, Emacs, or WhatsApp.
Open Notebook is a privacy-focused, open source alternative to Google's NotebookLM. It keeps your research under your control while letting you organize multiple notebooks and pick the AI models you want, instead of being locked to a single provider.
SurfSense is an open source, privacy-focused NotebookLM alternative for teams. It builds shared AI notebooks without source or notebook limits, and is designed to reduce Google service lock-in by letting teams configure their own LLM, image, TTS, and STT models.
