Questions, answered

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.

Scholarly can turn your sources into Summaries (each ending with a study guide section), clean notes, quizzes, flashcards, podcasts, slides, video lectures, mind maps, infographics, printable worksheets, timelines, flowcharts, SOPs, lesson plans, outlines, spreadsheets, illustrated story books, and writing support. Use one source across multiple formats so you can review, practice, and explain the same material in different ways.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Yes. When you ask chat for something that takes real work, such as a calendar file (.ics) of upcoming events looked up on the web, a spreadsheet or CSV of looked-up facts, a ZIP of files, a converted or merged document, or a chart pack, chat hands it to a task that runs in the background and replies right away. A small card shows what the task is doing and has Cancel. When the task ends, chat posts the result in the same chat with the file attached, so you do not need to keep the tab open. A chat can run up to two tasks at once, up to five minutes each, with no extra credit. Slides, video lectures, podcasts, flashcards from your sources, Summaries, and Deep Research keep their own creators.

Yes, in Beta. Start a 3D model from one PDF, whose first pages appear in 3D, or start empty and describe what to build. Ask the chat beside it for a model of the subject, such as an anatomy cutaway, a machine, or a cloud architecture, and Scholarly's AI writes it as real three.js code, with geometry, materials, lighting, animation, and labels from your pages. A full build uses 1 AI Creation Credit: you confirm it first, it runs for a few minutes, and you preview the draft before applying it. Small edits, such as a label's wording, a colour, or the background, are free. On paid plans you can export a 4K PNG, a transparent PNG, an 8-second 1080p turntable MP4, or a .glb file that opens in PowerPoint, Keynote, and Blender. Models are explanatory, not CAD-accurate, and there is no STL or OBJ export or 3D printing.

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.

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.

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.

No. Every member inherits the team's Premium or Laureate limits, while team reporting focuses on activity and adoption. See Team usage and limits.

Start a team from pricing or /teams, name it, then choose the number of seats and Premium or Laureate. Before checkout the workspace is just your seat; upgrade your team plan to add seats and invite teammates. Step-by-step: Getting started with Teams.

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.