Guide

Your first session, step by step, bring in one source, make one thing from it, and know where it went. Then the shortest path to each of the other tools.

Upload PDFs, documents, images, and audio to Scholarly, paste URLs from the web, pull files from Google Drive, and turn your own materials into AI chat, flashcards, podcasts, and more.

You have a source and twenty tools. This is the shortest path from "I uploaded a document" to the one thing worth making from it, by goal, by material, and by how much time you have.

Tour the Scholarly home page, the All Content tabs, your folder grid, pinned items, and how to find anything fast.

Use Scholarly AI Chat for explanations, grounded answers from your own sources, and study or work materials, plus voice mode, tools, and approvals.

Paste meeting transcripts, articles, or notes straight into Scholarly and turn them into flashcards, quizzes, video lectures, podcasts, and more.

See what's included in Scholarly's Free, Premium, and Laureate plans, including recurring AI Creation Credits, chat access, file sizes, exports, and paid-plan unlocks.

Customize your Scholarly account, edit your profile, set your app and AI languages, choose a voice, manage appearance and notifications, and tune creation preferences.

Create AI flashcards from any source, study with spaced repetition, refine a whole deck in one prompt, and test yourself with quizzes and exams.

Test yourself with adaptive quizzes and timed exams generated from your own sources, check the evidence behind every answer key, and challenge a key you think is wrong.

Write a flashcard deck, a quiz, a table, a page, or a PDF yourself instead of generating it. Blank starts are free, use no AI Creation Credits, and save your draft as you type.

Upload any PDF to Scholarly to chat with it, generate flashcards, summaries, podcasts, slides, and more, supports textbooks, papers, and lecture handouts.

Turn your PDFs, library files, Google Drive docs, links, or a typed prompt into a typeset Summary that covers every topic in your source and ends with a summary section you can revise from.

Turn PDFs, notes, or any topic into fully narrated, animated video lectures with scenes, illustrations, charts, equations, chapters, captions, transcripts, downloadable video files, and AI chat support.

Play any video lecture as audio with chapters, your speed, and your place kept, on a locked phone screen, in the background, or sent from your desktop to your phone with a QR code.

Make a finished video lecture in another language for one credit, the same scenes and figures, narrated and labeled natively, plus the free remake when a lecture comes out in a language you don't read.

Turn PDFs, notes, images, or any topic into AI-generated multi-speaker podcast episodes with transcripts, chapter slides, video mode, citations, and interactive questions.

Put your podcasts and lecture audio in Apple Podcasts, Overcast, or Pocket Casts through a private feed, and embed a shared video lecture in Moodle, Canvas, Notion, Confluence, or SharePoint.

Ask a question or attach sources, then produce a brief, comparison table, cited report, or deck the team can use.

Put a whole research team on one question, parallel researchers, a currency scout, an independent fact checker, and a reviewer, then push any finished report further with Go deeper.

Write in Scholarly's page editor, a blank page or an AI-drafted one, with autocomplete, tables, equations, images, spelling and grammar checks, a chat sidebar that edits the page for you, and exports to Word, PowerPoint and Google Drive.

How to see exactly what an answer was built from, the Sources button, inline citations that jump to the page or timestamp, and what a working citation can and cannot tell you about an answer.

Reword a question you already sent and get a fresh answer, without losing the conversation. Every edit creates a version you can step back and forth between.

One conversation follows you across Home, Chat, projects, and your content. Find past threads in History, pin the ones you return to, rename them, and delete the ones you don't need.

Ask AI Chat to reply out loud and it sends a short spoken message you can play in the conversation, in your assistant voice, in your language, with a transcript you can read along.

Check what Scholarly can read before creating from a file, link, recording, or pasted text. How Scholarly checks a source before you spend a credit, what makes a file read well, and how to fix one that doesn't.

Before you see a lecture, podcast, deck, summary, or flashcard set, Scholarly reviews it against your sources and rewrites what doesn't hold up. What gets checked, what it catches, and what you still need to read yourself.

Generate slide decks from your PDFs, lectures, or any topic using Scholarly's AI Slides, covers sources, themes, slide settings, outline review, presentation mode, and paid PDF, PowerPoint, and Google Slides exports.

Choose a designer theme or a color look for AI Slides, see what each of the ten designer themes is for, switch between light and dark, and choose a theme on a phone.

Turn your PDFs, library files, Google Drive docs, links, or a typed prompt into a downloadable worksheet PDF with practice problems, mixed-review sets, quizzes with answer keys, or blank handouts.

Turn your PDFs, library sources, Google Drive files, links, or a typed prompt into a downloadable mind map that shows how the key ideas connect.

Turn a PDF, your library, Google Drive files, a link, or a typed topic into a poster-style one-page visual summary you can download, study from, and share.

Turn a PDF or a description into an explanatory 3D model you can orbit, label, animate, and export as an image, a turntable video, or a .glb file for compatible 3D tools.

The complete guide to AI Document, every type it builds, from reports, SOPs, case studies and timelines to spreadsheets, calendars and flowcharts, plus editable Word, PowerPoint and Google exports.

Record meetings and lectures live in your browser or upload existing audio, get automatic transcription, then generate AI notes, summary, decisions, action items, and topics, when you need them.

Turn up to 60 minutes of audio, video, or a YouTube video into a clean text file or timestamped WebVTT captions in the background.

Have spoken conversations with AI Chat, control playback speed, and study hands-free.

Pick the voice that narrates your video lectures, podcasts, and read-aloud documents, hear a preview before you choose, search by name or by the job, or leave it on Auto.

Learn how to choose an AI model, understand creation credit multipliers, what reasoning effort means, and how to save a preferred model for chat and AI creations.

Save reusable instructions, a preferred AI model, and visual identity once, then apply the same profile to any AI creation, project, or team workflow.

Browse public flashcards, notes, research reports, and study sets shared by other Scholarly users, find ready-made materials for your subject.

Export Scholarly flashcard decks as an Anki .apkg deck, a printable PDF, or a print-ready worksheet so you can review your cards offline or in another app.

Turn your PDFs, notes, library files, Google Drive docs, links, or a typed prompt into a decision flowchart that maps steps, branches, and outcomes, ready to download, share, and study from.

Make covers, diagrams and slide images in Image Studio, compare models side by side, click any image to edit it, and turn a document into images grounded in its pages.

Active recall questions in Scholarly video lectures let you choose when to pause and answer, with best and last scores, full attempt history, and instant AI feedback.

Turn your PDFs, standards, library files, Google Drive docs, links, or a typed prompt into a structured lesson plan PDF with objectives, activities, and timing, ready to download, share, and teach from.

Save text, notes, code, CSVs, JSON, diagrams, and any other file the AI creates as real, editable files in your library, preview them, edit them inline, chat with them, and reuse them as sources for flashcards, quizzes, podcasts, and more.

Turn your PDFs, notes, library files, Google Drive docs, links, or a typed prompt into a clean, hierarchical outline PDF that structures your sources into topics and sub-points, ready to download, share, and study from.

Use Scholarly's built-in slash commands and ready-made skills, and create your own custom AI skills for workflows you repeat.

Turn your PDFs, notes, library files, Google Drive docs, links, or a typed prompt into a clear, numbered standard operating procedure PDF, ready to download, share, and follow step by step.

Turn your PDFs, notes, slides, or a typed prompt into a real, editable workbook, source-grounded sheets with proper headers, clean rows, and working formulas.

Turn a prompt or your own PDFs and notes into an illustrated children's story book, Scholarly writes the story and illustrates every page in a consistent art style.

Download a story book's Kindle eBook, paperback interior, and wraparound cover, then upload them to Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing.

Have Scholarly read a document aloud and save it as a single MP3 in your library, with a voice and narration speed you choose and the credit cost quoted before you start.

Turn your PDFs, library files, Google Drive docs, links, or a typed prompt into a clean, source-grounded timeline that lays out events in the order they happened, ready to download, share, and study from.

Pick how your AI Video Lecture teaches, Standard Fast, Standard, Illustrated, Math Lecture, Doodles, or Freestyle, and turn on Short video for a portrait clip. Each style re-teaches the same material in its own tone and visual language.

Paste a YouTube link into Scholarly to turn the video into flashcards, quizzes, video lectures, podcasts, and summaries, or watch it with chapters, a transcript, and AI chat.

Draw, highlight, add arrows and numbered steps, blur private details, and crop any image before you send it in chat, or point Image Studio at exactly what to change.

Take what you made out of Scholarly, which formats each kind of work offers, how Google Docs and Google Slides saving works, and what survives the trip.

What a failure message means, why the recovery buttons change from one failure to the next, what Scholarly keeps, and what happens to the credit you spent.

What to do when an upload is rejected, a creation fails or stalls, a recording finds no speech, a YouTube link won't load, or a shared link won't open.

Manage your Scholarly subscription, Free, Premium, or Laureate, switch from Laureate to Premium, pause for a month, update payment methods, view invoices, and cancel anytime.

Put your company name and VAT or tax ID on the invoice, download past invoices, draft an expense request for your manager, and know what a team bill looks like.

Is there a Scholarly app for iPhone, iPad, or Android? How Scholarly is built for phones, what each surface looks like on a small screen, and what deliberately stays on desktop.

Share Scholarly pages, flashcards, PDFs, video lectures, podcasts, meeting notes, research, and chats, copy a link, generate a QR code, send via your phone's share sheet, invite by email, and track views.

Put a password on a public Scholarly link, have it expire after 24 hours, 7 days, or a date you choose, turn off saving and export, or revoke the address so it stops opening.

Organize your study materials into folders, use drag and drop, and let AI sort your content automatically.

Keep the sources, creations, and scheduled tasks for one piece of work together in a project, with its own instructions, default profile, and collaborators.

A plain-language guide to what stays private in Scholarly, whether your material trains AI models, how sharing works, your cookie and advertising choices, what a team admin can and cannot see, and how to delete content or your whole account.

Upload an SOP, policy PDF, handbook, or deck and get a narrated training video, plus SOPs, summaries, quizzes, and briefs. What it does, what it does not do, and how it compares.

Reference of every file type Scholarly accepts, PDFs, docs, images, audio, links, and Google Drive files, and which AI features work with each format.

Connect Google Drive, Google Calendar, Notion, or Dropbox so Chat can find and read the material you already keep elsewhere, read-only and disconnectable at any time.

Scholarly remembers where you stopped in a video lecture, podcast, PDF, page, research report, or flashcard deck, and opens it there on any device you sign in from.

Every AI creation opens a live progress page, the step it is on, how long it has taken, how long it usually takes, what you asked for, and how to cancel it.

Close the create window and keep working, Scholarly generates your flashcards, podcasts, video lectures, slides, and research reports in the background and tells you when they're ready.

Long creations email you when they finish, and the email previews what was made, a research TL;DR, a video poster with chapters, the first slides, a few flashcards, so you can judge it from your inbox.

Sign in with Google, email and password, or an emailed sign-in link, plus how to reset your password, update account details, sign out, and delete your account.

Buy one-time AI Creation Credits when your weekly allowance runs out, four pack sizes, credits that never expire, and automatic use once your weekly creations are gone.

Use the Cmd+K command palette in Scholarly to search every PDF, deck, page, recording, podcast, research report, and chat, and jump straight to it without leaving the keyboard.

What you can and cannot do with content you create on Scholarly, including commercial projects.

Delete items and folders in Scholarly, find them again with Library's Recently deleted filter, and restore anything you removed by mistake.

Ask AI Chat to rename, delete, restore, move, and file your content, one item or fifty at a time, instead of clicking through your library row by row.

Rate AI-generated podcasts, lectures, and flashcards, flag inaccurate output, and report bugs in Scholarly so the team can improve quality and fix issues fast.

Master Scholarly's keyboard shortcuts for navigation, chat, flashcard study, and editing, work faster across the app without reaching for the mouse.

Set the language Scholarly's interface uses, choose the language your AI answers and creations come out in, control language per creation, and see how narration, podcasts, and read aloud speak over 70 languages and regional variants.

Read, edit, or delete the memory files Scholarly keeps about you, review a chat's working notes, and manage the context saved for a project.

Schedule an AI creation for a specific day and time or after your current creation, have chat repeat a task every day, week, or month on a paid plan, and start, move, or cancel anything waiting from Home or a project.

How Scholarly Teams works, a workspace that starts with your seat, then Premium or Laureate access for every paid seat, with a shared Library, team-owned projects, roles, activity reporting, and one bill.

Create a team workspace, add the first source so Scholarly drafts something useful straight away, add teammates, then choose seats, see per-seat pricing, and know what each paid seat includes.

Accept a Teams invitation, see where you land, what your seat includes in numbers, what to do in your first fifteen minutes, and what stays private to you.

A tour of the Team workspace, the shared Library, seats and invitations, roles and requests to join, AI model access and data-retention rules, shared profiles, Activity reporting, and billing.

Share folders, files, and projects into your team's Library, understand who can edit what, use team-owned projects, and see which shared work people actually open.

On a paid team plan, see which teammates opened a shared lecture or podcast, how far they watched, whether they finished, and how they did on its questions, with a CSV you can download.

How the shared team library works, what team-owned projects change, transferring a project between a person and the team, approving join requests, and setting the library up so people actually use it.

What Scholarly does with your team's material, how admins restrict which AI models the team can use, the Zero Data Retention rule, what adoption reporting and lecture progress do and do not show, and who to contact for a security review.

A practical first-month plan for getting a team using Scholarly, what to widen the shared Library into first, who to invite, and how to tell whether it's working.