Questions, answered
Everything you need to know about adding your own documents, recordings, and videos, asking questions against them, creating from them, and getting the most out of Scholarly.
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The basics
What is Scholarly?
Scholarly is a source-grounded workspace. Add the material you already have — PDFs, recordings, notes, slides, webpages, or videos — and use AI to summarize it, ask questions against it with checked citations, create study and work artifacts from it, and decide what to do next.
What can I upload or add to Scholarly?
You can bring in PDFs, notes, recordings and AI Meeting Notes, slide decks, images, YouTube videos, webpages, and other documents. Scholarly keeps the work tied to your sources, so answers and everything generated stay grounded in the material you actually brought.
How do I get started?
Create a workspace, add a source, then ask Scholarly for the next thing you need: a summary, explanation, study guide, podcast, slides, quiz, flashcards, or help with a confusing section. You can also browse all features.
Is Scholarly free to use?
Yes. You can start using Scholarly for free. Premium adds higher limits and the full creation toolkit for people working through new material every week, and Laureate is for heavier workloads. Details about our pricing can be found here.
Studying from your own material
Can I chat with my PDFs, notes, and lectures?
Yes. After you add a source, you can ask questions, request summaries, clarify difficult concepts, or ask Scholarly to explain an answer using the material you uploaded. The goal is to help you understand the source, not just generate generic AI text.
What study materials can Scholarly create?
Scholarly can turn your sources into study guides, clean notes, quizzes, flashcards, podcasts, slides, video lectures, mind maps, infographics, printable worksheets, timelines, flowcharts, SOPs, lesson plans, outlines, spreadsheets, illustrated story books, summaries, and writing support. Use one source across multiple formats so you can review, practice, and explain the same material in different ways.
Does Scholarly cite sources?
Yes. Scholarly is built around source grounding: you add PDFs, notes, AI Meeting Notes, slides, websites, or videos, then ask questions and create from those sources. Every citation in a chat answer is checked against your linked sources before the answer is saved, and the Sources button opens the exact page a claim came from.
Is Scholarly like NotebookLM?
Scholarly and Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM) both work from your own sources. Scholarly is a full workspace rather than a notebook: cited chat with a Sources button, research reports, video lectures, podcasts, decks, documents, flashcards, quizzes, and practice exams live together, and on a paid plan finished documents, reports, and decks export as editable Word, PowerPoint, Google Docs, or Google Slides.
Can Scholarly make flashcards from PDFs?
Yes. Upload a lecture PDF, textbook chapter, slide deck, or study guide and Scholarly can turn it into editable flashcards. You can study them in Scholarly, share them, or export them to Anki (.apkg) or PDF on a paid plan.
Can I export what Scholarly makes?
Yes, on a paid plan. Finished pages, documents, research reports, decks, video lectures, and podcasts offer their supported Word or PowerPoint format from Export, and with Google Drive connected you can save the same formats as editable Google Docs or Google Slides. PDF download, printing, and link sharing stay free on every plan. Exporting creates a separate copy and leaves your original sharing settings alone; text-based exports are editable, while slides built from generated imagery keep those visuals as images. Flashcard decks and quizzes have no Office export, and a PDF you uploaded is never converted.
Does Scholarly work on my phone?
Yes. Home, chat, video, podcasts, flashcards, your library, projects, and settings are designed as phone screens rather than a shrunken desktop page — one column, bottom sheets instead of floating panels, and full-width actions. Anything that spends a credit or deletes something asks before it does.
Pricing, organizing & help
What is free in Scholarly?
Scholarly is free to start. The free plan includes lifetime allowances that don't reset: 3 AI Chat messages, 500 autocomplete words, 5 quiz questions, 15 voice minutes, 1 practice exam, 1 AI Creation Credit, and 1 file upload. Premium includes 10 AI Creation Credits each week, unlimited uploads, chat, autocomplete, quizzes, and exams, plus more daily voice time.
Can I organize work for different projects, clients, or topics?
Yes. You can keep sources and generated work organized so each project, client, or topic has its own context. You can also browse public work others have shared when you want an example to start from. Start exploring here.
Can I edit what the AI generates?
Yes. Notes, outlines, study guides, CSVs, code, diagrams, and other text or data the AI creates are saved as editable library files — open the file's own page to read it, edit inline, chat with it, or reuse it as a source for flashcards, podcasts, video lectures, worksheets, and more.
Can I pick which AI model generates my content?
Yes. In AI Chat, you can choose between GPT, Claude, Gemini, Mistral, GLM, and Muse models. AI Slides, AI Video Lectures, and paid creation tools such as flashcards, worksheets, study guides, mind maps, and infographics also offer model choice, including Grok and Kimi. Your last choice is remembered per feature.
Do you support teams and organizations?
Yes. Premium or Laureate for Teams is self-serve from 1 to 29 seats for companies, training and L&D teams, agencies, research groups, and schools, with a free 3-seat trial. For larger rollouts, contact us at hello@scholarly.so and we will help with the right setup.
Scholarly for Teams
What is Scholarly for Teams?
Teams is two seat plans: Premium for Teams or Laureate for Teams. Every member inherits that plan, plus shared libraries, roles, activity reporting, model controls, and one bill. Overview on Scholarly for Teams.
How much does Teams cost?
Premium for Teams is $35 per seat / month or $336 per seat / year. Laureate for Teams is $110 per seat / month or $1,056 per seat / year. Start with 1 seat and self-serve up to 29. Details on seats, invoices, and the Stripe portal are in Team billing and seats.
Does Teams have a separate AI Creation Credit balance?
No. Every member inherits the team's Premium or Laureate limits, while team reporting focuses on activity and adoption. See Team usage and limits.
How do I create a team and invite people?
Start a team from pricing or /teams, name it, then choose the number of seats and Premium or Laureate. You can try the workspace before paying; the free trial includes up to 3 seats, so you can invite 2 teammates before checkout. Step-by-step: Getting started with Teams.
Who is Teams for?
Training teams, L&D, research labs, classes, schools, and companies that want one bill and a shared library — not everyone buying Premium separately. See Teams and Enterprise.
Ready to put your material to work?
Add your first source and turn it into cited answers, flashcards, quizzes, decks, and more — free to start.