Skolight vs NotebookLM
The closest match to Skolight: both grounded in your sources. They split on review, exams and planning.
- Skolight
- Gemini Notebook
Podcasts
AI podcast generator. Two hosts talk through your material.
Skolight turns the lectures, PDFs, and notes in a Space into a study podcast: two AI hosts, Alex and Sam, talk the material through, so you can revise on a walk, a commute, or a break from the screen.
Podcasts are included with Pro and Max.
Alex
The Krebs cycle never uses oxygen directly. So why does it stop without it?
Sam
Because it runs on NAD⁺, and only the electron transport chain - which does need oxygen - gives it back.
You · joined the conversation
Wait, is that why fermentation exists?
How it works
Three steps. From your own material.
Step 1: Choose the material
Pick the lectures, PDFs, notes, or recordings in a subject's Space that the episode should cover.
Step 2: Pick a format and length
Deep dive, Brief, Critique, or Debate; shorter, default, or longer; and, if you like, a focus - a topic to go slowly on, or a question to end on.
Step 3: Listen, or join in
Play it with chapters and a transcript that follows along. On Max, press Join the conversation to ask the hosts anything.
What you get
Everything it does.
Two hosts, Alex and Sam
A host and a co-host with two clearly different voices, who explain, ask each other questions, and reach for examples.
Four formats
Deep dive unpacks the ideas with examples. Brief runs through the essentials. Critique checks what holds up and what is missing. Debate takes opposite sides, then lands on what the evidence supports.
Three lengths and a focus
Shorter, default, or longer, plus an optional note telling the hosts what to focus on.
Written from your sources
The script comes from the material you picked, so the hosts use your course's terms and examples rather than a generic overview.
Join the conversation
On Max, interrupt the hosts by voice or by typing. They answer from your material, and the rest of the episode adapts to what you asked. Calls last up to 10 minutes, with 1 hour of conversation a month.
Chapters and a transcript
Jump between chapters, follow the transcript line by line, and keep listening in the player bar while you move around the app.
Revising by ear
A lot of study time is lost to moments when you can't look at a page: the walk to class, the bus, the washing-up. A podcast made from your own course turns those minutes into review, without asking for another hour at the desk.
Hearing ideas explained as a conversation also helps in its own way. Two hosts ask the questions you might not think to ask, give a second example when the first doesn't land, and in the Critique and Debate formats, disagree - which makes you decide what you actually think.
Listening is still the easy part, so pair it with something active. Before the hosts settle a debate, pause and decide who's right; after an episode, take a short quiz on the same material to check what stuck.
Questions.
How it compares. Honest side-by-sides.
NotebookLM alternatives
Five tools to use instead of, or beside, Gemini Notebook - and who should stay where they are.
- Gemini Notebook
- Skolight
- Gemini
- ChatGPT
- +2 more
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AI Lecture Recorder
Record in the browser and get a live transcript, saved straight to your Space.
AI Course Generator
Short courses of sections, lessons, and quiz checks, built from your material.
AI Note Taker
Structured notes and summaries from lectures, slides, PDFs, and audio.
Your next A+ starts with one upload.
Upload a lecture and Skolight makes the notes, flashcards, quizzes and more, with a tutor that has read every page. Free to start, no card needed.
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