Opyt vs NotebookLM

A notebook holds the sources you uploaded for one project. Opyt is the store all your projects draw from, and it fills itself.

NotebookLM is free, needs no install, cites every answer and turns your material into audio and video overviews. For thirty PDFs and one question it is the right tool, and Opyt is overkill.

The tell is the source cap: 50 per notebook on the standard tier, up to 600 at the top. A notebook is a bounded, hand-assembled, per-project pile. Opyt is one unbounded store that spans every project you have ever cared about and keeps growing between sessions.

At a glance

	Opyt	NotebookLM
Scope	One store, every topic and every year	One notebook per project
Source limit	None; 2,830 documents in the live store	50 Standard · 100 Plus · 300 Pro · 500 and 600 Ultra
How it fills	From follows, bookmarks and standing queries	You upload or link each source
Lifespan	Persistent, accumulating	Per task, then stale
Counting	Counts over the whole store by topic, author and date	Not supported
Where it lives	One SQLite file on your machine	Google's cloud

Where NotebookLM is better

Zero setup and no cost: open a tab. Opyt is a clone, a virtualenv, Python 3.10+ and one API key.
Audio overviews, video overviews and mind maps. Opyt produces no artifacts at all, by design.
YouTube, Drive and PDF ingestion. Opyt has no video source of any kind, and its five source types are X, Substack, GitHub, blogs and papers.
It will go and find sources for a topic you name.

Where Opyt is better

It persists and accumulates, grown from 691 bookmarks and 492 follows that took no filing at all.
No source cap. The top NotebookLM tier stops at 600 sources per notebook; the live Opyt store holds 2,830 and does not partition by project.
It counts: 96 saves on tariffs and inflation against 84 on the grid and 41 on GLP-1 trials, over any date range. A notebook cannot be asked that question.
One SQLite file on your disk, 115.9 MB exported whole, in 4.2 s.

Which one

Pick NotebookLM if

You have a bounded pile and one deadline
You want an audio overview to listen to
You want it free and instant

Pick Opyt if

The same sources keep coming back across projects
You want the pile to assemble itself
You want to ask what you have been reading, not just what a document says

Reach for NotebookLM when you have a project in front of you. Opyt holds the decade of reading those projects keep drawing on, which is why a source cap would break it.

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