How much does Google NotebookLM make per month?

Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Google NotebookLM earns approximately $20K/mo. This is a US-storefront-equivalent estimate; global revenue can be several times larger for internationally-distributed apps. See the methodology page for the full formula and confidence bands.

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Who makes Google NotebookLM?

Google NotebookLM is published by Google on the Apple App Store. See the full publisher portfolio (other apps by the same developer) via the More by developer block on the product page above.

What is Google NotebookLM's BU Score?

Google NotebookLM has a BU Score of 82/100 (Excellent). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.

Google NotebookLM

Quality Score

Excellent

Google NotebookLM

Name: Google NotebookLM — app revenue, audience, build cost & risk profile
Creator: bumetric
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: Google NotebookLM revenue, Google NotebookLM app analytics, mobile app revenue estimate, Productivity revenue, iOS app revenue

High confidence

4.9 ✍️ Editor

✍️ bumetric analysis

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Google NotebookLM is an iOS app from Google in the Productivity category, currently rated 4.9★ across 43,450 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.

Quality Score is 82: Excellent (strong product-market fit). For a Productivity app, that means strong product-market fit. The full BU Investment Matrix below scores 8 dimensions including monetisation, growth, and operational risk.

Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below: live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.

💰 Monthly revenue · now vs forecast

● Right now

$1.5M

per month

→

12-mo forecast

$1.6M – $2.4M

per month

→

24-mo forecast

$1.9M – $3.5M

per month

BIG tier

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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE

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Rating

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Reviews

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Forecast Revenue / mo

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Snapshots tracked

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🤖Also on Android

Google

$13.9K/mo · 29.1M ratings · 4.1★

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ONE-TIME · BUILD 💰 Estimated build cost

$95K

↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue

Likely range $70K – $130K

$25K · MVP floor $100K · indie scale $500K+ · studio build

📈 Pays back in ~5 months at current MRR

Synthetic estimate. Inputs: category complexity, file size, screen count, monetization layer, platform reach, age × team-size proxy. Calibrated against 2024-2026 indie-agency rate surveys. Full math + source list on /methodology.

Where the money goes

🧱 MVP baseline (design + 1-store ship)	+$28K
📱 5 unique screens × $4.5K	+$22K
📦 Asset bundle (143 MB)	+$37K
⚙ Productivity complexity ×1.10	+$8K

Total estimate $95K

ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE 💵 Estimated acquisition value

$375K

↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue

Marketplace range $275K – $500K · 19× MRR multiple

💸 ~3.9× return on build cost

Synthetic estimate. Multiple band derived from ad-supported + age, rating quality, category demand, and user-base maturity. Calibrated against 2024-2026 indie-app-marketplace closed-deal medians. Full math + comparable deal list on /methodology.

How the multiple was built

📺 Ad-supported base	15× MRR
⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium)	+15%
🏷 Productivity category multiple	+8%

Final multiple 19× MRR

👥 Estimated audience size

3.2M

Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)

Monthly active

975K

Daily active

435K

Synthetic estimate from ratings × category benchmarks. Calibrated against 2024-2026 mobile-attribution retention + DAU/MAU reports. Numbers are US-storefront-equivalent — true global audience can be 5-10× larger for international apps. Full math + source list on /methodology.

How we sized it

📲 Productivity engagement	~75 installs / rating
🔁 Productivity D30 retention	30%
📍 DAU / MAU stickiness	0.45

DAU / MAU 45% sticky

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How we forecast this revenue

MEDIUM CONFIDENCE

Baseline

$1.5M/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers

Growth rate

+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)

6 months

$1.5M – $2.0M

12 months

$1.6M – $2.4M

24 months

$1.9M – $3.5M

Compound growth at +2.5% MoM (tier baseline for BIG). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±15% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.

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BU Investment Matrix

Mixed signals · 59/100BIG TIERcompetitive but cautious

Growth Velocity

5.0

Founder Strength

8.2

Product Quality

9.7

Revenue Strength

6.2

Monetization Maturity

1.0

Defensibility

5.3

Market Position

2.0

Operational Safety

10.0

💰 Revenue: Healthy — $600K - $3300K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
⭐ Quality: 4.87★ across 43,450 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
📈 Growth: dev shipping weekly.
⚠️ Risk: Low — no material risk signals detected.

🎯 For competitors: Mixed picture. Worth competing if you have a clear UX or pricing edge — otherwise crowded segment.

💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $27.0M-$48.0M.

Composite of 8 dimensions computed deterministically from public signals — no LLM, every score traces back to a measurable input. Default weights shown; "compete" / "acquire" / "invest" lenses re-weight without re-fetching.

Range:

💰 Forecast Revenue / mo

MODEL

Revenue forecast computed from BU's 234 trigger model on each snapshot. Calibrated against ground-truth from 58 verified-revenue apps.

🔬Forecast Breakdown — Why This Estimate?Top 11 of 11 triggers

Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:

Mid install base (43,450 ratings)METRIC		+$5,500
Excellent rating (4.9★)METRIC		+$2,200
frequent crashesREVIEW		−$2,000
bugsREVIEW		−$1,800
5 starREVIEW		+$1,800
Multilingual (64 languages)METRIC		+$1,500
highly recommendREVIEW		+$1,400
slowREVIEW		−$1,200
too expensiveREVIEW		−$1,000
Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC		+$600
Growing app (1y old)METRIC		+$200

METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)

📥 Estimated Downloads / week

PROXY · ratings × 50/wk —

Industry-rule estimate (Sensor Tower / data.ai): one weekly install ≈ 50 new ratings. Solid points = tracked snapshots · faded line = pre-tracking model backfill.

📈 Reviews Growth

LIVE

Cumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.

⭐ Rating Trend

LIVE

Average rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.

🗓️ Snapshot Timeline

HISTORY

Each bar shows a tracked update and the metric delta from the previous snapshot.

🆕 What's New · v1.42.7

Bug fixes and performance improvements

Profile & Insights

Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.

Identification

App name: Google NotebookLM
Developer: Google
Bundle ID: com.google.NotebookLM
App Store URL: Open in App Store
Category: Productivity
Content rating: 12+
Languages: AF, SQ, AM, AR, HY, AZ, EU, BE, BN, BG, MY, CA, HR, CS, DA, NL, EN, ET, FI, FR, GL, KA, DE, EL, GU, HE, HI, HU, IS, ID, IT, JA, KN, KO, LV, LT, MK, MS, ML, MR, NE, NB, OR, FA, PL, PT, PA, RO, RU, SR, ZH, SK, SL, ES, SW, SV, TA, TE, TH, ZH, TR, UK, UR, VI

Company

Website: Not found
Tagline: Google NotebookLM | AI Research Tool & Thinking Partner
Description: Meet NotebookLM, the AI research tool and thinking partner that can analyze your sources, turn complexity into clarity and transform your content.
Founded: Not found
HQ / Address: Not found
Employees: Not found
Logo: Available

Revenue

Verified revenue / mo: Not found
AI revenue estimate / mo: Not found
AI annual estimate: Not found
ML model estimate / mo: $20.3K/mo
Top-grossing rank: 🇩🇪#24 /100 🇯🇵#29 /100 🇮🇳#39 /100 🇧🇷#40 /100 🇫🇷#51 /100 🇺🇸#95 /100 🇨🇦#97 /100
All-time revenue: Not found
Pricing: Not found

Founder

Founder data not yet collected for this app.

Funding

Funding data not yet collected for this app.

Press & Links

Press & Links data not yet collected for this app.

Contacts & Socials

Contacts & Socials data not yet collected for this app.

📈Ratings growth43,744 ratings+1634% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾

Tracked (24 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (14 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value

🌍Top Countries — Grossing Rank7 countries

🇩🇪DE

#24 /100

🇯🇵JP

#29 /100

🇮🇳IN

#39 /100

🇧🇷BR

#40 /100

🇫🇷FR

#51 /100

🇺🇸US

#95 /100

🇨🇦CA

#97 /100

📊Category Rank Trajectory#24 now · best #24 · worst #100

Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart

🚀Version Release Timeline5 releases tracked

Profile is built from iTunes Lookup + developer site scrape + ML revenue model. Empty fields show "Not found" — additional sources (Crunchbase, X, IndieHackers, Acquire.com) coming.

📝 About this app

Turn complexity into clarity with NotebookLM, your brain’s new best friend. Join the millions of students, creators, researchers, professionals, CEOs, and more who are saving time, getting stuff done, and learning in new ways.

“NotebookLM Blew Our Mind” – Hard Fork
“One of the most compelling and completely flabbergasting demonstrations of AI’s potential yet.” – The Wall Street Journal… View full description on the official store →

App Specs

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💾 143 MB🔞 12+📱 iOS 17.0+🔖 v1.42.7🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 AF, SQ, AM, AR, HY +59📂 Productivity💰 Free

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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline

11 EVENTS TRACKED

Detected changes in this app over its tracked lifetime — each event links cause (what changed) to effect (what moved). Sorted newest first.See full history →Version history →

2026-05

🔧

Shipped update — v1.38.7 → v1.39.6

2026-05

⭐

Rating ↑ 4.27 → 4.87 (improved 0.60★)

2026-05

📈

Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in

2026-03

📈

Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in

2026-03

⭐

Rating ↑ 4.29 → 4.80 (improved 0.51★)

2026-03

📈

Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in

2025-11

📈

Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in

2025-10

📈

Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in

2025-09

📈

Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in

2025-09

⭐

Rating ↓ 4.83 → 4.29 (dropped 0.54★)

2025-09

🚀

First tracked snapshot — initial data captured

🌍

Multi-Country Performance

Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets

Market	Rating	Reviews	Current version
🇦🇺 AU	4.84612★	2,125	4.84612★ this version
🇧🇷 BR	4.91787★	14,513	4.91787★ this version
🇨🇦 CA	4.85092★	6,010	4.85092★ this version
🇩🇪 DE	4.79552★	9,820	4.79552★ this version
🇫🇷 FR	4.79971★	5,567	4.79971★ this version
🇬🇧 GB	4.81698★	4,366	4.81698★ this version
🇮🇳 IN	4.77135★	4,903	4.77135★ this version
🇯🇵 JP	4.73335★	15,402	4.73335★ this version
🇺🇸 US	4.86659★	43,744	4.86659★ this version

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