Settings

Access Settings from the sidebar or your profile menu. Scholarly lets you customize how the platform looks, sounds, and behaves.

Profile

• Name and email -- Update your display name and email address.
• Profile picture -- Upload a photo or avatar.

AI Voice Preference

Choose from Scholarly's searchable voice library. Luna is the default for clear, patient explanations. This setting affects:

• Voice mode -- The voice used during live AI conversations.
• Read aloud -- The voice used for spoken chat replies, flashcards, and selected text.

Change your voice at any time from Settings or directly from the voice bar during a conversation.

Generated podcasts and video lectures have their own voice choices during creation; changing the assistant voice does not change them.

Voice Playback Speed

Adjust how fast the AI speaks during voice mode. Choose from 1x, 1.25x, 1.5x, or 2x speed. Change the playback speed from the voice bar during a conversation.

AI Assistant Instructions

Add custom instructions that apply to every AI conversation. For example: "Always explain concepts at a college freshman level" or "Include examples from biology when possible." These instructions persist across all your chat sessions.

Language

Scholarly keeps two language settings apart.

App language, under the Appearance tab, sets the language of the interface — menus, navigation, and settings. It is available in English and 日本語 (Japanese), and it never changes the language the AI writes in.

AI Language, under the Chat tab, sets the default output language for AI chat and every creation tool, including flashcards, quizzes, slides, podcasts, and video lectures. There are over 70 languages, plus Auto, which follows the language of your source material. Most create windows also have their own Language control if you want to change it for a single creation.

For the full picture, including how recordings and summaries pick up their language from the source, see Languages in Scholarly.

Number of Flashcards

Set how many cards to generate before you create a deck. Number of flashcards lives in the create window's Settings section, right next to Language and the AI Model picker -- choose Low, Medium, High, or Very High to control coverage. Quiz decks have the same control, labeled Number of questions. AI-generated counts are targets, not guarantees -- short or sparse sources can produce fewer cards than the target. See Flashcards for the full customization walkthrough.

Memory

Manage what the AI Assistant remembers about you from Settings → Chat → Memories. Add a fact yourself, review what's been saved automatically from chat, or mark an outdated memory so the AI stops using it. See Memory for the full guide.

Customization Profiles

Manage reusable instructions, a preferred AI model, and visual identity from Settings → AI Creations → Customization Profiles. Personal profiles work across every creation; Team admins can also publish Team profiles, and Projects can choose a default. Existing Saved Instructions and Custom Designs are preserved automatically. See Customization Profiles for the full walkthrough.

Skills

The Skills tab lets you manage your custom slash commands. From here you can:

• Create new skills — Add a name, set the /command, and write the prompt the AI should follow.
• Edit existing skills — Update the title or prompt of any skill you have created.
• Delete skills — Remove skills you no longer use.
• Import skills — Load skills from .md files.

The tab separates your custom skills from built-in predefined skills (like /summary and /study-guide), which are locked and cannot be modified. See the Slash Commands guide for more details.

Theme

Switch between Light, System, and Dark mode. Each option is clearly labeled next to its icon. The entire app adapts to your choice, including the editor, chat, study mode, and all content pages.

Connections

Connections has its own page in the sidebar below Library instead of a Settings tab. Connect Google Drive, then manage its accounts, default, reconnect state, and disconnect controls. Drive includes only the Docs, Slides, and other files you choose through Google's Picker. See Connections for the full guide.

Cookie Preferences

Cookie preferences lets you accept or deny optional advertising cookies. Product analytics stays active with either choice and is never used for advertising. You can change your choice here, or from Cookie preferences in the footer of any public page. See Privacy, Cookies, and Your Data.

Billing

Open the Billing tab to see your current plan, change payment methods, move an existing monthly Premium subscription to yearly billing, buy AI Creation Credits, switch from Laureate down to Premium at your next renewal, or cancel.

• A scheduled Laureate → Premium downgrade shows its start date and an Undo downgrade button until it takes effect. Your content and any purchased credits stay in your account either way.
• Cancellations take effect at the end of the current billing period — you keep access to paid features until then.

See Billing and Subscriptions and AI Credit Packs.

Notifications

Control which emails you receive:

• When a creation is ready -- One toggle for every long-running creation: podcasts, video lectures, study guides, PDFs, slides, research, and the rest. Processing an uploaded PDF or transcribing meeting notes does not send an email.
• Product & marketing emails -- Occasional updates about new features and tips.

Emails arrive in your app language. Anything not yet translated is sent in English rather than not sent at all.

Settings on a Phone

On a phone, Settings is a hub of grouped lists with coloured icons. Tap a group to open it, and 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 Scholarly on Mobile.

Accessibility

• Instant AI Responses -- Skip the streaming-character animation in AI Chat. Replies appear all at once the moment the model finishes, instead of typing themselves out. Helpful if motion is distracting or you just want answers as fast as possible.
• Keyboard shortcuts reference -- View a summary of available shortcuts for study mode and navigation. See Keyboard Shortcuts.

Related

• Billing and Subscriptions — plans, payment methods, downgrades, and cancellation.
• Languages in Scholarly — how app language, AI language, and emails relate.
• Privacy, Cookies, and Your Data — what is collected and how to change your cookie choice.
• Connections — connect Google Drive and manage its accounts.
• Scholarly on Mobile — what Settings and the rest of the app look like on a phone.