Questions, answered
Everything you need to know about adding your course materials, chatting with your sources, creating study tools, and getting the most out of Scholarly.
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The basics
What is Scholarly?
Scholarly is a source-grounded study workspace. Upload your real course materials—PDFs, AI Meeting Notes, notes, slides, webpages, or videos—and use AI to summarize them, ask questions, create study guides, generate practice, and decide what to study next.
What can I upload or add to Scholarly?
You can bring in PDFs, notes, AI Meeting Notes, slide decks, images, YouTube videos, webpages, and other study materials. Scholarly keeps the work tied to your sources so answers and generated materials stay relevant to the class you are actually taking.
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. The Premium plan adds higher limits and advanced creation tools for heavier study workflows. 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 designed around source-grounded study: students add PDFs, notes, AI Meeting Notes, slides, websites, or videos, then ask questions and create study materials from those sources. When citations are available, answers stay tied back to the original material.
Is Scholarly like NotebookLM?
Scholarly and NotebookLM both help students work from their own sources. Scholarly is built as a full study workspace: PDF chat, flashcards, quizzes, practice exams, podcasts, video lectures, slides, notes, and next study actions live together instead of stopping at summaries.
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 or Quizlet-compatible formats.
Pricing, organizing & help
What is free in Scholarly?
Scholarly is free to start. The free plan includes 1 free AI creation and 1 free file upload — lifetime credits that don't reset — plus daily limits on AI Chat messages and quiz questions. Paid plans unlock unlimited AI creations, unlimited uploads, and bigger files for students who generate more flashcards, quizzes, podcasts, videos, slides, and study guides.
Can I organize work for different classes or projects?
Yes. You can keep sources and generated materials organized so each class, topic, or project has its own context. You can also explore public study resources from other students when you want examples or extra review material. 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, Gemini, Grok, Mistral, and Claude models. AI Slides, AI Video Lectures, and paid creation tools such as flashcards, worksheets, study guides, mind maps, and infographics offer GPT, Gemini, Grok, and Claude models; Mistral is chat-only. Your last choice is remembered per feature.
Do you support educators or institutions?
Yes. The best option is Scholarly for Teams — it's self-serve for up to 29 seats, so educators, tutors, and schools can set up a class or department themselves. For a larger institutional rollout, contact us at hello@scholarly.so and we will help with the best setup.
Scholarly for Teams
What is Scholarly for Teams?
Scholarly Teams is a shared Enterprise workspace: every paid feature unlocked for every member, frontier AI models, 450 AI credits per member per week, shared libraries, roles, and one bill. Overview on Scholarly for Teams.
How much does Teams cost?
Teams is $45 per seat / month, or $324 per seat / year (40% off). Start with 1 seat and self-serve up to 29. Details on seats, invoices, and the Stripe portal are in Team billing and seats.
Are AI credits shared across the team?
No. Every member gets their own 450 AI credits each week. One teammate's heavy week never drains anyone else's balance. See How AI credits work.
How do I create a team and invite people?
Choose My team or business at signup, pick seats, check out, then invite by email from the Team page. 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.
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