Scholarly on Mobile

Is there an iPhone, iPad, or Android app?

There is no native Scholarly app in the App Store or Google Play. Scholarly is a web app: you use it in your phone or tablet's browser at scholarly.so, signed in with the same account as on your laptop.

You can still get an app-like experience by adding it to your home screen — see Install it to your home screen below. Once installed it opens full-screen, without the browser bar, and sits next to your other apps.

What Works on a Phone

Scholarly on a phone is designed as a phone app, not the desktop layout squeezed onto a small screen. You can upload, chat, study flashcards, watch video lectures, listen to podcasts, read PDFs, run research, edit pages, and capture meeting notes.

A handful of fine-grained options stay on desktop on purpose, so a phone screen shows the decisions that matter there and nothing else:

• The AI model picker in the customize step.
• Appearance and expert styles.
• Scheduling a creation for later.
• The podcast player's caption and volume controls — use your phone's own volume buttons.

Upgrade prompts also never interrupt you automatically on a phone. You open plan selection yourself from Upgrade, or when you reach a plan limit.

The phone app bar carries only the menu, Upgrade, chat, and the current page's own actions.

Creating on Your Phone

Start anything from New in the app bar or the create tiles on Home.

Menus open as a bottom sheet — full width, slid up from the bottom edge with the page dimmed behind. More tools, New, the model picker, and the project picker all work this way.

Add content is a sheet with Cancel and the title in a bar at the top, then grouped rows:

• Take Photo — point your rear camera at a printed policy, a whiteboard, or handwritten notes.
• Photo Library — pick existing photos from your camera roll.
• Choose Files — with your plan's file size limit shown as a footnote.
• Paste a link — a single field for a website or YouTube link.
• From Library, Paste Text, and Google Drive — each opens its own page with a Back button.

The project you are saving to is a row at the bottom, and Next appears once you have added something.

Customizing is then one screen with the core choices only: style as a checklist, then language, voice, resolution, and length as rows, then instructions, then one full-width Create button. If the creation would spend a free AI Creation Credit, Scholarly asks first, so a stray tap cannot use it up.

Your First Run on a Phone

The welcome steps use the same tap rows, headers, and file-size note as the rest of the phone app, rather than their own one-off cards.

If you have nothing to upload yet, you don't have to find something first. Record on the spot or just start chatting, and add files later. If you arrived from one of Scholarly's public tools, the files or links you picked there follow you through signup — you aren't asked to select them again, and the welcome screen puts the matching option first.

Home on a Phone

Home keeps the same order as on a computer — create tiles, then the chat, then Projects and your content — but runs edge to edge instead of sitting inside a card.

• Upload, AI video lectures, AI flashcards, and AI podcast are a compact 2×2 grid of icon-and-title tiles.
• The chat card is the same one you get on a computer, and its tool row fits the screen: the tabs that fit are shown, and the rest sit at the top of More tools.
• Below the chat card is the same single Recent list you get on a computer, grouped by day, with anything In progress or Scheduled at its top and a Continue where you left off strip above it when you have something unfinished. It shows the latest eight items with a single View all.
• Projects is a row of chips you can flick through.
• The upgrade card is one tappable row.

Watching, Listening, and Studying

• The video page is a video app screen: the player runs edge to edge and stays pinned under the app bar while chapters, summary, or transcript scroll beneath it, with the title and one line of facts under the picture.
• The podcast page keeps the episode art, title, and description on top, and the player dock is one row — art, time, skip back, play, skip forward, and speed.
• On the flashcards page, the per-card actions (sound, source, star, hint, Teach me) sit in one row under the card.

Sections on every content page are a single scrolling row of labelled chips — Chapters, Summary, Questions, Transcript, AI & Sources.

Reading and Writing

PDFs, files, and recordings follow the same shape: the document or player runs edge to edge, the name and one line of facts sit above a row of section chips, and each section is a flat block. PDFs fit to the width of your screen when they open, so there is no sideways scrolling; pinch to zoom for a closer look.

• Chat names the thread in the header, keeps link, dictate, and send in the composer, and lists recent chats as flat rows above it.
• Research is a single readable report with its own chip row.
• The page editor is the document itself at full width with a five-control toolbar.
• The flashcard editor stacks the question and answer fields so each one is full-width.

Your Library and Projects

Your library, folders, and projects are flat rows rather than a grid of cards. One button opens a sheet holding show, group, and sort, instead of a toolbar of controls.

A project opens on its content, with Ask this project as the full-width action at the bottom. See Projects and Folders and Organization.

Settings on a Phone

Settings is a hub of grouped lists with coloured icons. Tap a group to open it, then use the back button to return — the way settings work elsewhere on your phone. Billing, connections, and the plan cards keep their full-width upgrade actions. See Settings.

Upgrading on a Phone

Opening plans shows the price and the upgrade button without scrolling, with each feature on a single line. Nothing interrupts you: you reach plan selection from Upgrade, or when a plan limit stops something you asked for.

AI Meeting Notes on Your Phone

Start a live capture from the AI Meeting Notes tile and your phone becomes the recorder — useful for in-person meetings, site visits, and calls on speaker. While recording, a floating control bar stays pinned to the bottom of the screen with the elapsed time and pause/stop controls, so you can scroll the page and still stop the capture without hunting for the button.

If your browser cannot record (older Safari versions, for example), Scholarly tells you immediately and points you to the file-upload path so you can still get a transcript.

Voice Mode

Voice mode works on iPhone and Android. The first time you start it, Scholarly explains what is about to happen before your browser asks for microphone access — so you know to tap Allow. If access is blocked, Scholarly shows the exact steps for your phone to unblock the mic.

See Voice Mode for the full guide.

Sharing With the Native Share Sheet

On a phone, the Share button opens your phone's native share sheet — the same one apps like Messages, Mail, WhatsApp, X, and AirDrop hook into. You can pick where to send the link without leaving the page.

The full Share window is also available — tap More options in the native sheet, or open the Share window from any item header. On phones the window opens full-screen, so the link, audience control, channels, QR code, and invites all fit comfortably.

See Sharing for the full breakdown.

Install it to your home screen

Scholarly can be added to your home screen on iPhone, iPad, and Android — this is the closest thing to a native app, and it takes about five seconds:

• iPhone and iPad (Safari) — tap the Share icon → Add to Home Screen.
• Android (Chrome) — tap the ⋮ menu → Add to home screen or Install app.

Once installed, Scholarly opens full-screen without the browser bar, gets its own icon, and appears in your app switcher like any other app. You stay signed in between sessions.

Tips for Phones

• Pin the material you return to most so it sits at the top of your sidebar — that turns Scholarly into a one-tap reference from your home screen.
• Use voice mode on commutes and walks — it is hands-free. Free includes 15 lifetime minutes; paid voice allowances refresh daily.
• Listen to AI Podcasts in the background — your phone keeps playback going with the screen off, and the episode drives your lock screen, notification shade, and headset buttons. On an episode with several chapters, chapter 1 becomes playable while the rest is still recording, and the player bar keeps the episode title readable instead of clipping it.
• Photograph a printed document or whiteboard while you are still in the room, and turn it into a summary or deck on the way back.
• If you want a model, an expert style, or a scheduled run, start that creation on a computer — those controls are desktop-only by design.

Related

• Uploading Content — every way to add sources, including the phone Add content sheet.
• Home and Library — what Home holds and how the content list is arranged.
• Sharing — native share, QR codes, audiences, and who opened your link.
• Voice Mode — including microphone permissions on iOS and Android.
• AI Meeting Notes — including mobile-recording specifics.