Every Scholarly feature, in one connected workspace

Explore AI tools for understanding sources and creating useful work.

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Built from your material
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Short walkthroughs of the tools people and teams reach for every day.

Core features

Learn and work with your sources

Research, write, teach, train, and study with tools that stay connected to your sources.

Smart Note Taking

Create, edit, and organize your notes with powerful AI assistance.

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Interactive Flashcards

Transform your study material into effective flashcards for better retention.

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Deep Research

Let AI explore the internet and craft comprehensive research papers for you.

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PDF Analysis

Extract insights, create flashcards, and interact with your PDF documents.

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AI Assistant

Get personalized help with your studies from our intelligent AI Chat.

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AI Podcasts

Turn PDFs, text, images, or any topic into engaging podcasts with natural AI voices.

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AI Video Lectures

Turn PDFs, text, images, or any topic into narrated, animated video lectures with AI-generated visuals.

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Essay Writing

Plan, draft, and refine essays with AI that adapts to your own writing voice.

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AI Quizzes

Generate quizzes from your study material and get instant feedback to find weak spots.

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AI Meeting Notes

Record any lecture and get clean, structured notes plus a searchable transcript.

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AI Slides

Generate slide decks from your PDFs with AI. Add custom instructions to guide the content and style.

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Chat Canvas

Sketch a diagram, equation, or concept map directly in chat. Send the drawing and ask the AI to explain or correct what you drew.

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AI Study Pack

Turn one upload into a study folder with a study guide, a practice set, and flashcards, all generated together.

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AI Study Guides

Turn PDFs, notes, slides, websites, or a topic into a structured, exam-ready study guide — professionally typeset as a PDF with four free design themes.

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AI Infographics

Turn a PDF, notes, slides, or a topic into a poster-style, one-page PDF infographic in under a minute.

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AI Mind Maps

A one-page visual mind map from your PDFs, notes, or a topic. Mind maps are an AI Document type.

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AI Story Books

Turn a prompt or your own PDFs, slides, and notes into an illustrated picture book with art and story text on every page.

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AI Spreadsheets

A real, editable Excel workbook from your PDFs, docs, or a topic. Spreadsheets are an AI Document type.

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AI Images

Describe a diagram or drop in a reference image to generate study-ready visuals for your pages, flashcards, and chat.

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AI Worksheets

Turn your PDFs, notes, slides, or a topic into a printable, professionally typeset PDF worksheet with practice problems or a quiz and an answer key.

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AI Document

One creator for reports, timelines, SOPs, spreadsheets, mind maps, and other finished files, written from your own sources.

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Text to Speech

Have a PDF, report, or chapter read aloud in full and saved as one MP3 you can download and keep.

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Scheduled tasks

Plan long-running AI work for later

Choose a one-time start date from the same creation flows you already use, or ask for a scheduled task naturally in chat.

Choose any future time

Schedule research, reports, study materials, presentations, audio, or video in your current time zone. Every task runs once.

Keep upcoming work visible

See every scheduled task on Home, with work created in a Project also listed inside that Project.

Start early with Run now

Plans changed? Begin a scheduled task immediately from Home, its Project, or the chat where you requested it.

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And more

There's More to Scholarly

Explore the tools that make Scholarly useful across learning, research, teaching, training, and professional work.

Rich Text Editor

Our rich text editor allows you to combine text, images, flashcards, equations, and more into one document.

AI Writing Assistant

Rewrite, expand, and polish your writing with AI — plus state-of-the-art autocomplete to help you write faster and better.

Voice

Speak to the Scholarly assistant using natural language.

Deep Thinking

Ask a hard question and Scholarly takes extra time to reason through it step by step before answering.

PDF

Chat with your PDFs directly, and get the most out of your content.

Create Math Graphs

Ask the Scholarly assistant to generate mathematical graphs simply using natural language.

Web Search

The Scholarly assistant can search the internet, visit websites, and more.

Diagrams

The Scholarly assistant can draw diagrams, charts, and more.

AI Video Lectures

Turn PDFs into fully narrated, animated video lectures with AI-generated visuals.

Interactive Video Questions

Video lectures pause at key moments to quiz you on what you just watched, with instant feedback. Turn any checkpoint into flashcards or a quiz.

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Make something useful from your material

Use Scholarly to understand sources and create useful work. Start free, or choose Premium for 10 AI creations each week and higher limits.

170,000+
People worldwide
20+
AI Tools
100%
Built from your material
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Free

See what it does with one of your own sources.

$0

/month

Free forever

No card required.

  • 3 lifetime AI Chat messages

  • 1 free AI creation total

  • 2-minute podcasts and video lectures

  • 1 free file upload total (8MB)

  • 5 lifetime quiz questions

  • 1 completed practice exam total

  • 15 lifetime voice minutes

  • 32-page PDF to flashcards

  • 500 lifetime autocomplete words

Use it to generate flashcards, improve a deck, or create a podcast, video lecture, slides, infographic, mind map, study guide, worksheet, spreadsheet, story book, timeline, SOP, flowchart, lesson plan, or outline — or run Deep Research or turn a recording into AI Meeting Notes.

Premium

Most Popular

Steady weekly output from the material you already have.

$12

/month

Billed yearly at $144 · save $216

  • Everything in Free, plus:

  • 10 AI creations per week

  • Unlimited AI chat & autocomplete

  • Podcasts up to 60 minutes, videos up to 45 minutes

  • Unlimited file uploads (up to 300MB)

  • Unlimited study sessions

  • Unlimited exams & quizzes

  • 1000-page PDF to flashcards

  • Export to Anki

  • Priority support

Laureate

For work where being right matters more than the price.

$99

/month

billed monthly · cancel anytime

For frontier models & 8x more AI Creations

Our most advanced and most expensive tier.

  • Everything in Premium, plus:

  • 80 flexible AI creation credits every week

  • 80 AI creations per week

  • Podcasts up to 60 minutes, videos up to 45 minutes

  • Unlimited uploads up to 1 GB, plus 3,000-page PDFs

  • 12 hours of voice mode per day

  • Priority support and early access to new Frontier models

Pricing shown in USD. Local currency may be available for Premium in app.

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AI chat

Premium and Laureate include unlimited AI chat. GPT 5.6 Sol and Claude Opus 5 are reserved for credit-metered AI creations.

Free
3 total
Premium
Unlimited
Laureate
Unlimited

AI creations

AI creations share one credit balance across every creation tool. Standard models use 1 credit; Frontier models Sol and Opus use 3.

Free
1 total
Premium
10/week
Laureate
80/week

Podcast length

Free episodes are fixed at 2 minutes. Paid plans can set a target length up to 60 minutes.

Free
2 minutes
Premium
Up to 60 minutes
Laureate
Up to 60 minutes

Video lecture length

Free lectures with a length control are fixed at 2 minutes. Paid plans can set a target up to 45 minutes. Short uses its own short video format.

Free
2 minutes
Premium
Up to 45 minutes
Laureate
Up to 45 minutes

File uploads

Free
1 total (8MB)
Premium
Unlimited (300MB)
Laureate
Unlimited (1 GB each)

PDF to flashcards

Free
32 pages
Premium
1000 pages
Laureate
3000 pages

Practice questions

Free
5 total
Premium
Unlimited
Laureate
Unlimited

Practice exams

Free
1 total
Premium
Unlimited
Laureate
Unlimited

Voice mode

Free
15 min total
Premium
2 hr/day
Laureate
12 hr/day

Autocomplete

Free
500 words total
Premium
Unlimited
Laureate
Unlimited

Export to Anki

Free
—
Premium
Included
Laureate
Included

Support

Free
Standard
Premium
Priority
Laureate
Priority

What customers say

Scholarly has enhanced the quality of notes and questions I administer to my tutees. Insightful, to the point.

TD Georgas

TD Georgas

Tutor

I have very good experience with Scholarly it summarize me scientific text in hovel academic level with citation. I use this for any therapeutic area . It is great and useful tool.

Diana

Diana

Scholarly user

Scholarly has been a valuable tool for my studies. The AI-generated flashcards and intuitive features make organizing and retaining information much easier.

Briana

Briana

Scholarly user

This app is great for studying for big test. Drop your PDF's in the system and it'll do the trick. You can organize it specifically for your needs.

Kelvin

Kelvin

Scholarly user

Your questions, answered

Is Scholarly free to use?

Yes! The free plan includes core study tools with lifetime allowances: 3 AI Chat messages, 500 autocomplete words, 5 quiz questions, 15 voice minutes, 1 practice exam, one free AI creation total, and 1 file upload. These allowances do not reset. Upgrade to Premium for 10 AI creations per week and unlimited uploads.

What uses my free AI creations?

Generating flashcards, improving a flashcard deck, making a podcast, creating a video lecture or infographic, building slides, a spreadsheet, or a story book, making a mind map, study guide, or worksheet, having an AI Agent create a timeline, SOP, flowchart, lesson plan, or outline, running Deep Research, or processing a recording uses your free AI creation. It is a lifetime free credit and does not reset. AI Chat, autocomplete, quiz practice, voice, exams, and file uploads have separate lifetime allowances.

Can I cancel anytime?

Absolutely. There are no contracts or commitments. You can cancel your subscription at any time from your account settings, and you'll keep access until the end of your billing period.

What payment methods do you accept?

We accept all major credit and debit cards through Stripe. Pricing is displayed in USD by default, but local currency is available in the app.

Can I use Scholarly with a class or school?

Yes. For a school or organization-wide rollout, contact us at hello@scholarly.so and we'll help you find the right setup.

What happens when I hit a free plan limit?

You'll see a prompt to upgrade. Your existing work is never lost — limits only apply to new actions. Free-plan allowances are lifetime credits and do not reset. Premium includes 10 AI creations per week, podcasts up to 60 minutes, video lectures up to 45 minutes, unlimited uploads, chat, autocomplete, quizzes, and exams, plus more daily voice time.

FAQ

Can't find what you're looking for? Contact us.

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 .

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.

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 .

Do you support educators or institutions?

Yes. Premium or Laureate for Teams is self-serve from 1 to 29 seats for educators, tutors, schools, and other organizations. For larger rollouts, contact us at hello@scholarly.so and we will help with the right setup.