NotebookLM — now Gemini Notebook — turns the sources you upload into summaries, mind maps and answers. Podwise starts from the shows you already follow, so the notes arrive without a notebook to fill. Every fact below comes from each product's own pages.
One is a general research notebook; the other is a podcast library that does the reading for you.
Podwise
NotebookLM
Checked against each product's own pages on Nov 5, 2026.
| Feature |  Podwise | NotebookLM |
|---|---|---|
| Price | ||
| Free plan | Free account; reading already-processed episodes is unlimited | Free: 100 notebooks, 50 sources per notebook |
| Paid plan | Standard $9.90 a month, or $5.90 a month billed annually; Pro $19.90 a month | Higher limits come with Google AI Plus, Pro or Ultra; not sold as a separate subscription |
| AI processing on the paid plan | 20 episodes a month on Standard, 50 credits on Pro | A usage allowance that refreshes, rather than a count of episodes |
| Free trial | 7 days | No trial; the free tier is permanently free |
| AI | ||
| Summaries | Overview with chapters, key Q&A, keywords and highlights | Source-grounded summaries, reports and study guides |
| Transcripts | Speaker labels, timestamps and full-text search | Not listed as a transcript view |
| Mind maps | Interactive; download as XMind | Mind Maps, generated from a notebook's sources |
| Chat with one episode | Yes, on paid plans | Yes: chat over the sources in a notebook, with citations |
| Ask across podcasts | Ask Podwise AI: 50 a day on Standard, unlimited on Pro | Within one notebook, across the sources you added |
| Saving moments | Clips; headphone clips in the App 2.0 beta | Save a chat answer as a note |
| Languages | Translation into 13 languages | Answers follow the sources; no translation export listed |
| Sources | ||
| Following shows | RSS, OPML and 小宇宙; new episodes arrive on their own | Not listed: you add each source to a notebook |
| YouTube | Channels and videos | A video URL can be a source |
| Your own audio | MP3, WAV, M4A up to 500 MB | Audio files can be sources |
| Other formats | Not listed: episodes, audio and YouTube | PDFs, websites, Google Docs, Slides and more |
| Exports | ||
| Note apps | Notion, Readwise Reader, Obsidian, Logseq | Not listed |
| Files | Markdown, PDF, XMind, SRT | Generated documents as Docs, PDF, DOCX or Markdown |
| Apps | ||
| Where it runs | Web, iPhone, iPad, Android, and Macs with Apple silicon | Web, and a mobile app |
| For developers | Open API, MCP server and CLI on Pro; Enterprise API | Not listed |
Not listed means we couldn't find it on NotebookLM's help centre or its plans page. Google bundles the paid limits into its AI plans, so there is no separate NotebookLM price. Prices are in US dollars.
Sources:
Google renamed NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook in July 2026. The product and its notebooks are the same; we keep the NotebookLM name here because that is what most people search for.
Yes, and they do different jobs. Podwise follows your shows and turns each episode into notes; NotebookLM is where you can take a set of sources, including those notes, and research across them.
No. Podwise exports Markdown, which you can add to a notebook as a source, along with its summary and transcript.
Every page is checked against the other product's own pages, with the date it was read.
Listening and saving moments, against reading and mapping whole episodes.
Meeting transcription, against the episodes you listen to.
A free player with AI on top, against a tool built around the notes.
Try Podwise free for 7 days and open any episode as a summary, a transcript and a mind map.
