Open-Source Local Alternative to Notebook LM

Run your own private NotebookLM: drag, drop, generate podcasts 100% offline—no uploads, no leaks, full control.

Dec 12, 2025

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Last month, Google released NotebookLM. You throw in a bunch of PDFs, videos, and web pages, and it generates a podcast with two AI hosts having this incredibly insightful conversation.

And then I went crazy.

Because I have piles of papers, trade secrets, client data, and legal contracts that absolutely cannot touch the cloud, upload them directly to Google? I’d wake up from nightmares.

So I spent every single weekend and built an open-source version from scratch — extracting the soul of NotebookLM and rebuilding it to run 100% locally, offline, with any model you want, and as many podcast hosts as you need.

Now I’m completely addicted to it.

How insane is this thing?

Let me show you a few scenarios I use every day:

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