Google announced on Monday that it has formally launched the NotebookLM apps for Android and iOS, a day earlier than Google I/O 2025 and a day earlier than the corporate said it would roll out.
Since its launch in 2023, the AI-based note-taking and analysis assistant has solely been accessible through desktop. Google has now made the service out there on the go.
NotebookLM is designed to assist individuals higher perceive advanced info by means of options like sensible summaries and the flexibility to ask questions on paperwork and different supplies.
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The app offers entry to Audio Overviews, that are NotebookLM’s AI-generated podcasts based mostly on the supply supplies you’ve got supplied. There’s background playback and offline help for Audio Overviews.
The app additionally permits individuals to create new notebooks and examine those they’ve already created. Plus, while you’re viewing an internet site, PDF, or YouTube video in your machine, you possibly can faucet the share icon and choose NotebookLM so as to add it as a brand new supply. Customers also can view sources that they’ve already uploaded in every of the notebooks.
NotebookLM on Android and iOS additionally encompasses a gentle and darkish mode that’s utilized based mostly on the person’s machine’s system settings.
Given the timing of the launch, Google might share extra in regards to the app through the firm’s I/O keynote Tuesday.
Creator platform Patreon has to change its app to adjust to Apple’s tips after a recent update allowed U.S. customers to make purchases by way of the net.
The corporate says that its personal web-based checkout choice is now the default for U.S. followers, nevertheless it has to replace its app in order that this checkout choice opens in an exterior browser as a substitute, per Apple’s instruction.
This creates extra steps for followers who wish to pay utilizing Patreon immediately, nevertheless it nonetheless permits the corporate to forgo having to pay Apple a 30% fee on in-app purchases.
Patreon first updated its app shortly after a court docket ruling within the Apple-Epic authorized battle that pressured Apple to support external payments in apps revealed on its U.S. App Retailer with out charging commissions. Final week, the Patreon iOS app (model 125.5.0) added an choice that allow customers pay by way of the net utilizing a wide range of fee strategies, together with bank cards, Venmo, PayPal, and even Apple Pay.
These choices appeared inside an in-app browser, offering a extra seamless checkout expertise for Patreon customers. Now, Patreon’s checkout movement opens in an exterior browser as a substitute — a change Patreon made based mostly on Apple’s suggestions.
As well as, the corporate says creators on older billing fashions may even be capable of settle for funds by way of Patreon’s iOS app.
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Beforehand, Apple didn’t assist billing fashions outdoors of subscription billing, and it required the unique use of its personal in-app purchases system. That restricted the choices for creators on legacy billing fashions, like first-of-the-month and per-creation billing, Patreon says.
With the replace, creators will be capable of use these billing choices on iOS, which might make a big affect on their backside line.
Inside the week, Patreon says that U.S. followers will be capable of buy memberships from these creators on the value they’ve set for his or her tiers within the iOS app. (Nonetheless, creators will nonetheless want to supply subscription billing to promote new memberships outdoors the U.S.)
At the moment, roughly 95% of energetic creators are already utilizing subscription billing, the corporate notes, because it permits them to make use of different instruments like free trials, reductions, gifting, tier repricing, autopilot, and extra. However now it may well tackle the wants of the remaining 5%.
Due to this new flexibility, Patreon’s deadline to modify creators to subscription billing is not in impact, it says. Final August, Patreon stated Apple had given it a deadline to switch all creators to Apple’s iOS in-app purchase system by November 2025 or danger removing from the App Retailer.
“We’ve stayed in shut dialog with Apple and have continued advocating for a extra versatile method — one that offers creators extra time and selection,” Patreon shared in a blog post. “Because of the current ruling and adjustments on Apple’s finish, the November 2025 deadline is not in impact, and as of at this time, no new deadline has been set. Which means that, as of now, we may give creators extra time and adaptability in when and the way they swap whereas we concurrently work to resolve points which have blocked them from switching within the first place,” it stated.
