AI Meeting Notes & Transcription

In most universities, recording for personal academic use is allowed — but policies vary by school and even by professor. Many institutions require you to ask permission first, especially in jurisdictions with two-party consent laws. As a rule: check your syllabus, ask your professor, and don't redistribute the recording.

Yes. Scholarly runs in the browser on iPhone (Safari/Chrome) and Android (Chrome). Open the app, tap Record, and put your phone on the desk in a meeting, class, or interview. There's no separate app to install — it works on whatever device you have on hand.

On clear audio — a lecture, meeting, or interview — transcription is highly accurate in English and major non-English languages. Accuracy drops with heavy accents, background noise, or distant audio — getting your mic closer to the speaker is the single biggest improvement you can make.

50+ languages including English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Hindi, and Turkish. The AI auto-detects the language — you don't need to set it manually.

Up to 3 hours per recording on free and paid plans, which covers most lectures and seminars. For longer sessions (full-day conferences, marathon study groups), split them into separate recordings and check your plan's daily recording limits.

Live capture needs a connection because audio uploads in small chunks as you go — this is what protects you from losing the lecture if your battery dies mid-class. If you need a true offline option, record with Voice Memos on your phone and upload the file to Scholarly afterward.

Yes. In your browser, share the meeting tab with audio and Scholarly will capture it — for remote classes, work calls, client meetings, or webinars. We deliberately don't send an auto-join bot into the call — many people dislike that, and it tips off everyone on the line. Tab-share is quieter and works for any video platform.

Audio is stored privately on your Scholarly account, encrypted in transit and at rest. Only you (and anyone you explicitly share a link with) can access it. You can delete a recording any time, and deletion removes the audio file, the transcript, and any flashcards generated from it.

Record a lecture live in Scholarly or upload an existing audio file (MP3, M4A, WAV, WebM, or OGG). The AI transcribes the audio, then generates structured notes from it — definitions, formulas, and the points your professor emphasized — instead of a raw transcript. From there it's one click to flashcards or a practice exam. That's AI notes from audio, grounded in your own recording rather than a generic summary.

For studying specifically, the best lecture recorder app is the one that doesn't stop at a transcript. Otter is excellent for multi-speaker business meetings, but Scholarly is built for class: every recording becomes a transcript, a structured summary, chapter markers, flashcards, and a practice exam in one student account — no copying content between apps. It runs in any browser on phone or laptop, with no install.