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Gemini Notebook vs Consensus
Gemini Notebook scores higher overall (8.8 vs 8.3), but the right pick depends on what you need.
Choose Gemini Notebook if…
Students and researchers who already have their sources and want to understand, question and summarise them
8.8/10★★★★★Full review →Choose Consensus if…
Students, clinicians and anyone checking what the research says about a specific question
8.3/10★★★★★Full review →Side by side
| Gemini Notebook | Consensus | |
|---|---|---|
| Overall score | 8.8/10 | 8.3/10 |
| Rank in category | #1 of 10 | #3 of 10 |
| Price | Freemium · from $4.99/month | Freemium · from $10/month |
| Free version | 100 notebooks, 50 sources per notebook and standard usage limits | Unlimited searches with 10 Pro Analyses and 10 Study Snapshots a month |
| Platforms | Web, iOS, Android | Web, Android |
| Made by | Consensus | |
| Research quality | 9 | 8 |
| Ease of use | 9 | 9 |
| Features | 7 | 8 |
| Value for money | 9.5 | 8.5 |
| Platforms | 9.5 | 7.5 |
Gemini Notebook: what the AI does
- Answers grounded only in your sources, with clickable citations
- Audio Overviews and Video Overviews
- Reports, quizzes, flashcards and slide decks from your sources
- Code execution for data analysis on uploaded data
- Notebooks synced with the Gemini app
- Low hallucination risk because answers come only from your sources
- Citations jump straight to the quoted passage
- Generous free plan and very cheap paid entry
- Turns the same sources into audio, video and study formats
- Not a discovery tool: you have to collect the sources first
- Slide-deck revisions don't consult your sources, per one review
- Usage is now compute-based, so it's hard to predict how much you get
Consensus: what the AI does
- Cited plain-language answers from peer-reviewed papers
- Consensus Meter showing agreement across studies
- Deep Search literature reviews
- Ask questions of a paper or your own PDF
- Study Snapshots summarising methods and results
- Fast way to see where the evidence points
- Every claim cites a real peer-reviewed paper
- Cheap Pro plan and a usable free tier
- Exports citations and imports from Zotero
- Built for narrow, answerable questions rather than open-ended reviews
- Reviewers report lag and high CPU use in long sessions
- No deep links to the exact passage inside a paper