Self-hosted NotebookLM alternative over PDFs, video, audio and web pages
Open Notebook is listed under Deep Research & Documents, in the Research & Learning category on Flocci AI Tools. Self-hosted NotebookLM alternative over PDFs, video, audio and web pages. It is free, with no paid plan attached, and it lives at github.com.
Open Notebook is listed as fully free — there is no paid tier attached to it in the catalog. That makes it one of the 397 entries on Flocci AI Tools with no upgrade path built in.
Open Notebook needs to be installed or self-hosted — it doesn't run in a browser tab. It is available on self-hosting.
Open Notebook does 4 things the catalog singles out: Self-hosted notebooklm alternative over pdfs, video, audio and web pages; works with 18+ ai providers including ollama; generates podcasts with 1 to 4 speakers; mit licensed with rest api.
MiroThinker is the closest free alternative: it sits in the same Deep Research & Documents sub-category and is free. STORM (Stanford), Tongyi DeepResearch and GPT Researcher also start free. The full list is on the alternatives page.
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