NotebookLM vs Liminary vs ChatPDF vs NoteGPT

Which one fits you in 2026? Traffic, pricing, input → output, tasks and community side by side.

Your tool
NotebookLM
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Competitor 1
Liminary
Competitor 2
ChatPDF
Competitor 3
NoteGPT
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4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool NotebookLM
notebooklm.google.com
Your docs, deeply understood
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Competitor Liminary
liminary.io
Ever open a browser tab to find something you saved three months ago, only to spend ten minutes hunting through bookmarks
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Competitor ChatPDF
chatpdf.com
ChatPDF is a document question-answering app: upload a PDF, ask questions in plain language, and get answers with built-in citations that point back to the source passage.
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Competitor NoteGPT
notegpt.io
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
159.8Mvisits/mo
23.3Kvisits/mo
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7.3Mvisits/mo
MoM change
▼ 26.8%
▼ 18.4%
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▼ 9.2%
6-month growth
-14.7%
-10.4%
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-43.3%
Global rank web
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#1,028,276
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#6,906
Avg. last 3 months
210.3M
24.3K
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8.2M
Bounce rate lower is better
32%
37%
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44%
Pages / visit
5.0
2.0
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4.1
Visit duration
6m 32s
51s
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4m 23s
Traffic sources
● Direct 81% · ● Referral 17%
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● Direct 84% · ● Referral 15%
NotebookLMLiminaryChatPDFNoteGPT
063.2M126.5M189.7M253MNotebookLM · 121.9MNotebookLM · 141.5MNotebookLM · 177.5MNotebookLM · 187.3MNotebookLM · 222.2MNotebookLM · 247.4MNotebookLM · 253MNotebookLM · 218.2MNotebookLM · 159.8MLiminary · 37.2KLiminary · 16KLiminary · 26KLiminary · 18.1KLiminary · 28.2KLiminary · 21.2KLiminary · 28.5KLiminary · 23.3KNoteGPT · 7.7MNoteGPT · 9.1MNoteGPT · 10.6MNoteGPT · 12.1MNoteGPT · 12.8MNoteGPT · 12.8MNoteGPT · 12.4MNoteGPT · 9.3MNoteGPT · 8MNoteGPT · 7.3M10K100K1M10M100M1BNotebookLM · 121.9MNotebookLM · 141.5MNotebookLM · 177.5MNotebookLM · 187.3MNotebookLM · 222.2MNotebookLM · 247.4MNotebookLM · 253MNotebookLM · 218.2MNotebookLM · 159.8MLiminary · 37.2KLiminary · 16KLiminary · 26KLiminary · 18.1KLiminary · 28.2KLiminary · 21.2KLiminary · 28.5KLiminary · 23.3KNoteGPT · 7.7MNoteGPT · 9.1MNoteGPT · 10.6MNoteGPT · 12.1MNoteGPT · 12.8MNoteGPT · 12.8MNoteGPT · 12.4MNoteGPT · 9.3MNoteGPT · 8MNoteGPT · 7.3MNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Freemium
Free
Freemium
Starting price
$4.99per month · free tier available
$29per month · free tier available
Free
$9per month
Free tier
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Free trial
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API access
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Plans
Free FreeGoogle AI Plus $4.99/moNotebookLM Pro (Google AI Pro) $19.99/moVia Google AI Ultra $99.99/mo
Explorer FreePro $29/moTeam $50/mo
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Pro $9/moUnlimited $19.92/moMax $69/mo
Capabilities input → output
Input
DocumentsWeb pagesTextAudio
Web pagesTextDocuments
DocumentsTextWeb pages
VideoWeb pagesTextDocumentsAudio
Output
VideoTextAudio
Text
Text
TextSlidesImagesDocumentsData
Skill level
Beginner-friendly
Intermediate
Beginner-friendly
Beginner-friendly
Categories
Productivity & OfficeResearch & AnalyticsVideo EditingVoice & Speech+5 more
Education & LearningAI Knowledge Management
Education & LearningProductivity & OfficeResearch & AnalyticsWriting & Content+4 more
Education & LearningProductivity & OfficeResearch & AnalyticsVideo Editing+16 more
Tasks what each tool can do · 0 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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9
Summarizing
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Research
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Note taking
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Video summaries
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Podcasts
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Bookmarking
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PDF analysis
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PDFs
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Document summarization
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Homework assistance
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Knowledge bases
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Mind maps
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Transcription
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Academic research
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Digital information management
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Education
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Files
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Productivity
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Summaries
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Text to speech
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Web search summaries
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Community on aitoolstime
Rating
no ratings yet
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Upvotes
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Saves
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Reviews
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Prompts
2
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Verified listing
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Traffic figures are third-party estimates for the tool's own domain; tools sharing a domain with a bigger product are not counted. Pricing is captured from each tool's site and may lag.