Product

Gemini Notebook, formerly NotebookLM

Gemini Notebook works only on the material you give it: upload files, links and videos, and it builds summaries, audio and video overviews, mind maps, reports, flashcards and quizzes out of those. It was called NotebookLM until recently, and the free plan gives a hundred notebooks with fifty sources in each.

  • nine output formats
  • fifty sources on the free plan
  • Persian output supported

current Maker: Google

Last checked: This is a reference page. It is re-checked against the vendor sources and updated when a new version ships. What changed

The rename matters more than a name change usually does

The official page, the browser title and Google support centre all write Gemini Notebook. The NotebookLM name still lives in the address and still works, but the product is no longer introduced under it. What that means for you is practical: every tutorial you find under the old name may show a different interface, and searching the new name in Persian returns almost nothing.

How it differs from an ordinary chatbot

A chatbot answers from the whole internet. Gemini Notebook answers only from what you gave it and cites each sentence back to a source. For studying that difference is everything: with a closed source set, even a wrong answer is traceable and you can see which page it came from.

The outputs are bound to those same sources. From one set it builds nine things: notes, audio overviews, video overviews, mind maps, reports, data tables, flashcards or quizzes, slide decks and infographics. The audio overview is what most people come for the first time, but the thing that actually moves the work along is the quiz, not the podcast.

The numbers worth knowing

Free plan: 100 notebooks, 50 sources per notebook, up to 500,000 words per source, 50 chat queries a day, 3 audio overviews and 3 video overviews a day. Paid tiers raise those to 300, 500 and 600 sources per notebook. For a single term of coursework the free plan is rarely the constraint; what runs out first is the three daily audio overviews.

Persian

Persian is on the output-language list, and Google help says the chosen language applies to study guides, documentation, audio overviews and chat responses. So you can feed it an English source and get Persian back. Output language is a separate setting and defaults to your Google Account language, so an English account has to change it by hand.

The real constraint for an Iranian user

Iran is not on the supported-countries list for the Gemini apps, and the product own help says it runs in the same regions the Gemini app runs in. We neither sell accounts nor recommend circumvention.

Specifications

Available on Web, Android, iPhone & iPad Source
Free plan yes Source
Output languages 80 languages Source
Output formats Notes, Audio Overviews, Video Overviews, Mind maps, Reports, Data Tables, Flashcards or Quizzes, Slide Decks, Infographics Source
Sources per notebook (free plan) 50 sources Source

Using it from Iran

We check this ourselves from an Iranian connection, because no vendor documents it and every listicle guesses.

Reachable
blocked
Payment
no working route
Free tier
yes
Measured on

How we checked: Google own help says Gemini Notebook works in the same 180+ regions where the Gemini app works, and Iran is not on the supported-countries list for the Gemini apps. We read that on Google page rather than measuring it; a direct test from inside Iran has not been run yet.

Where to actually buy it

The routes that really exist, each with its hidden cost.

Buying direct from the vendor not from Iran

It runs on the same Google account and Iran is not on the list of available countries. Practical note: the free NotebookLM tier has a lower source limit but produces the same output formats, so before buying anything check whether the free ceiling already covers you.

Where you can use the Gemini web app read on 12 August 2026

Route What it is and how you pay What it costs you that is not the price
Bitrefill virtual Visa and Mastercard prepaid card Bitrefill sells virtual prepaid cards for crypto: a Digital Prepaid Visa from $20 to $1000 and a Virtual Prepaid Mastercard from $20 to $500. It takes Bitcoin, Lightning, Ethereum, USDC, USDT, Litecoin, Dogecoin, Solana and several more. Unlike a marketplace account, whatever you sign up for with this card is yours from day one. A prepaid card is not a full substitute for a credit card. Some services refuse prepaid BIN ranges and the payment just fails without a clear message, and next month's automatic renewal fails too if the card balance has run down, cutting the subscription off mid-use. Leftover balance is usually not withdrawable.
Apple and Google Play gift cards gift card Buy the subscription inside the mobile app and the money comes off your App Store or Google Play balance rather than a card. Bitrefill sells both gift cards for crypto, Apple from $2 to $400 and Google Play from $5 to $200, which opens that route to someone with no card at all. Gift cards are tied to a country: a US card only loads into a US store account, and if your account region is anything else the code simply will not redeem and there is no refund. Buying inside an app is usually more expensive than buying direct from the vendor's site, and some services do not sell an in-app subscription at all. Bitrefill's catalogue also carries no OpenAI, Anthropic or Midjourney card, so this route only reaches subscriptions that are actually sold through the App Store or Google Play.
Plati.market reseller market A Russian digital-goods marketplace of independent sellers. It does sell AI subscriptions, and its front page lists ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Cursor and Grok, most tagged for automatic delivery. Prices show in rubles, dollars, euros and hryvnia. You are buying from an anonymous seller, not from the vendor. What arrives is usually access to an account that is not yours, and nearly every one of these services forbids account transfer in its terms, so the account can be reclaimed or closed at any moment with nobody to appeal to. The seller keeps the password and the recovery email, so treat anything you type into that account as readable by someone else.
BitCall virtual numbers verification number When a signup insists on a non-Iranian mobile number, BitCall sells virtual numbers in more than 195 countries and says of its OTP numbers that they are real, non-VoIP numbers meant to pass 2FA verification. It also sells data eSIMs. Payment goes through Bitcoin, USDT on TRC-20 and ERC-20, and Ethereum, and it also takes cards, PayPal and Stripe. There is no setup fee and no monthly subscription. A rented number is not yours. Let it lapse and you lose it, and every account whose recovery hangs off that number goes with it, which on its own is reason enough never to put a rented number on your main working account. Some services also recognise virtual-provider number blocks and simply never send the code, and the money you spent on that number does not come back.

We do not sell accounts, we take no commission on any of these routes, and there is no referral link in this table. The hidden-cost column is our own judgement, not the service's claim; anything with a source has the link beside it.

What it is good at

  • Answers only from your own sources and cites each sentence, so it invents less
  • Nine output formats from one set of sources, from a podcast to flashcards and a quiz
  • The free plan usually covers a term of coursework: a hundred notebooks, fifty sources each
  • Persian output from an English source, through one setting and no workaround

Where it falls short

  • The free plan builds only three audio and three video overviews a day, and that is the first ceiling you hit.
  • Iran is not on the supported-countries list and there is no official route for an Iranian user.
  • Because it leans only on your sources, a thin source set gives thin answers; it will not fill the gap from outside.
  • Output quality depends on the extracted text, so a bad scan or handwritten notes spoil the result.
  • The product has been renamed and most existing tutorials still show the old interface.

Our take

If you have the material and want to learn that material, this is the tool built for the job and it has no close rival. One practical order: set the output language first, take the quiz second, and go to the podcast last. The reverse order is what everyone does and it moves the least.

Questions people actually ask

Is Gemini Notebook free

Yes, there is a free plan: 100 notebooks, 50 sources per notebook, 50 chat queries and 3 audio overviews a day. Paid tiers raise those ceilings.

Does it support Persian

Yes. Persian is on the output-language list, and Google help says the chosen language applies to study guides, audio overviews and chat responses.

How many sources fit in one notebook

Fifty on the free plan, each up to 500,000 words or 200MB. Higher tiers go to 300, 500 and 600 sources per notebook.

Sources

  1. Gemini Notebook, official product page vendor source 12 August 2026
  2. Create a notebook in Gemini Notebook vendor source 12 August 2026
  3. Upgrade Gemini Notebook, per-plan limits vendor source 12 August 2026
  4. Gemini Notebook FAQ vendor source 12 August 2026
  5. Change output language in Gemini Notebook vendor source 12 August 2026
  6. Where you can use the Gemini web app vendor source 12 August 2026