Private AI for macOS and Windows

Every answer.
Rooted in your sources.

AI Notebook is a free, open-source NotebookLM alternative that reads your documents, cites its answers, and runs on your machine.

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AI Notebook answering an energy strategy question with grounded citations
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Your documents are not training data.

Your questions are not telemetry.

Your knowledge stays yours.

One private workspace

Four ways to move
an idea forward.

Switch between sources, conversation, writing, and reusable AI tools without leaving the notebook.

Chat view with a populated strategy conversation and grounded citations
Ask across everything.Streamed answers with clickable citations.

Local-first, for real

The cloud
is optional.

Use Ollama and every document, embedding, note, and conversation remains on your computer. Connect a cloud model only when you choose to.

  • No account required
  • Keys stored in the OS credential vault
  • Open source under the MIT license
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Built for the desktop

Native where
you do your work.

Bring your own knowledge.

AI Notebook is free, open source, and ready for your next question.

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