open-notebook
Knowledge Management
v1.15.0
Open Notebook is a privacy-focused research notebook for students, researchers and self-directed learners who want Notebook LM style features without…23d agoMITDockerEasy
Self-hosted alternatives to NotebookLM
People moving off NotebookLM often want their research and documents to stay on their own hardware. More about NotebookLM
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Also in Knowledge Management
Not listed as NotebookLM alternatives, but they cover the same ground and are worth a look.
Basic MemoryAI conversations that actually remember. Never re-explain your project to your AI again. Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/tyvKNccgqN
SiYuanOpen-source, local-first knowledge base where every note is a block with backlinks; runs as a desktop app or a self-hosted Docker service on port 6806.
Trilium NotesBuild your personal knowledge base with Trilium Notes
SwarmVaultBuild a personal knowledge graph and searchable wiki from your files and code. Runs locally with no cloud dependency and includes a visual graph explorer.
DocsMintDocsMint is a self-hosted, open-source knowledge base for documents and AI agents with rich-text editing, hybrid search, and MCP/REST API. Deploy via Docker Compose.
KaaSSelf-hosted, open-source knowledge-base compiler turning scattered notes into a queryable Markdown wiki via a 4-phase LLM pipeline. Exposes wiki via MCP for AI agents.
About these NotebookLM alternatives
The projects here are open-source tools that can be self-hosted as replacements for it. Open Notebook offers research notebooks with cited AI chat, full-text and vector search, transformations, podcasts, and support for more than 20 AI providers, under the MIT licence. Surfsense is an air-gapped desktop AI agent that researches, edits, and transforms your documents using any local or hosted model, under Apache-2.0. Memorwise focuses on document chat with any LLM, with local RAG Q&A, knowledge graphs, flashcards, quizzes, and audio, and it starts with one command.
4 open-source, self-hosted alternatives to NotebookLM are listed here, ranked by popularity, maintenance and documentation.
- Highest rated
- open-notebook (40 670 GitHub stars, MIT license, written in Typescript), followed by surfsense and SourceWeft
- Docker
- 2 of the top 4 ship an official Docker image
- Easiest to set up
- open-notebook and surfsense
- Recently updated
- surfsense v2.2.5 on 2026-10-27
NotebookLM alternatives compared
| Project | License | Language | Stars | Docker | Setup | Latest release | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| open-notebook | MIT | Typescript | 40 670 | Yes | Easy | v1.15.0 | 80 |
| surfsense | Apache-2.0 | Python | 16 667 | — | Easy | v2.2.5 | 71 |
| SourceWeft | Other | Typescript | 335 | Yes | Moderate | v0.3.0-rc.8 | 48 |
| Memorwise | MIT | Typescript | 46 | — | Moderate | 38 |