Finally, the Handy NotebookLM app from Google is now available on mobile devices.

Finally, the Handy NotebookLM app from Google is now available on mobile devices.

The native NotebookLM app for Android and iOS has been officially published by Google, delivering a more refined experience to mobile users just in time for the company’s I/O 2025 developer conference. A redesigned user interface, expanded multimedia capabilities, and direct interaction with system-level tools are some of the benefits that the application offers in terms of improving productivity and usability.

A clean homepage is presented when the NotebookLM app is opened. This homepage has a list of notebooks, each of which is displayed as a colorful card. The material may be filtered by the user according to Recent, Shared, Title, or Downloaded. In the absence of a manual override option, the application adheres to the system’s default bright or dark theme. Every notebook card has a play button that may be used to start Audio Overviews, as well as the name, an emoji icon, the number of sources, and the date that the most recent modification was made.

Audio Enhancements and Features Available Offline
Users have the ability to listen to podcast-style summaries of notebook material that have been created by artificial intelligence using the Audio Overview tool. With a glowing visual element in the full-screen player, Google has allowed background playback and offline support for these overviews while also providing support for offline playing. Users are also able to interact with the artificial intelligence hosts, which are presently in beta, in order to ask follow-up questions, which results in a more engaging audio experience.

There is a “Create new” button located at the bottom of the site, which makes the process of adding new material more simpler. In addition to manually entering text, users have the ability to import material from websites, YouTube videos, and PDFs. The application is able to connect into the share sheets of both Android and iOS, which enables the rapid insertion of sources from existing applications.

The Workflow of the Notebook Simplified
Sources, Chat Q&A, and Studio are the three tabs that users will discover inside of each notebook according to the layout format. The structure of the present online version is replicated here, however the native app provides superior responsiveness and performance than the web version does. The application is compatible with the layouts of both smartphones and tablets, however it does not have a sufficient level of integration with Google’s Material 3 design system.