An Open Source implementation of Notebook LM with more flexibility and features
Notebooks of sources with chat, notes and podcast generation, on any model provider.
- Language
- TypeScript
- Licence
- MIT
- Stars
- 40k
- Latest
- v1.15.0
- Last push
- 2026-10-05
alternatives to
NotebookLM
Google's research notebook that answers questions about uploaded sources with citations and turns them into audio overviews. A closed product from Google.
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| Tool | Fit | Stars | Licence | Terms | Self-hosted | Language | Latest | Last push |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open Notebook | Full replacement | 40k | MIT | Open source | Yes | TypeScript | v1.15.0 | 2026-10-05 |
| SurfSense | Full replacement | 16k | Other | Open core | Yes | Python | v2.1.0 | 2026-10-06 |
| RAGFlow | Partial | 92k | Apache-2.0 | Open source | Yes | Go | v1.0.0-rc1 | 2026-10-06 |
| PrivateGPT | Partial | 58k | Apache-2.0 | Open source | Yes | Python | v1.0.1 | 2026-10-06 |
| kotaemon | Partial | 26k | Apache-2.0 | Open source | Yes | Python | v0.12.0 | 2026-07-14 |
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Air gapped, privacy focused open source NotebookLM alternative. Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/ejRNvftDp9
A research notebook over your documents and connected apps, with podcast generation.
RAGFlow is a leading open-source Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) engine that fuses cutting-edge RAG with Agent capabilities to create a superior context layer for LLMs
Chat over uploaded documents with cited sources, with layout-aware parsing, on your own server.
- Language
- Go
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Stars
- 92k
- Latest
- v1.0.0-rc1
- Last push
- 2026-10-06
Complete API layer for private AI applications on local models: RAG, skills, tools, MCP, text-to-sql, and more. Works with any OpenAI-compatible inference server.
Q&A over your documents through an API and a simple UI, with everything running locally.
- Language
- Python
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Stars
- 58k
- Latest
- v1.0.1
- Last push
- 2026-10-06
An open-source RAG-based tool for chatting with your documents.
A web app to chat with your documents, with citations shown in a PDF preview.
- Language
- Python
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Stars
- 26k
- Latest
- v0.12.0
- Last push
- 2026-07-14
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