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 between a Male or Female AI voice. This setting affects:

• Voice mode -- The voice used during live AI conversations.
• Video lectures -- The narration voice for generated video lectures.

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

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.

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 and Dark mode. The entire app adapts to your choice, including the editor, chat, study mode, and all content pages.

Connected Apps

Link Google Workspace so AI Chat can search your Drive files and reference your Calendar events. Both Drive and Calendar turn on together when you link Google. Connect, reconnect, or disconnect any time from the Connected Apps tab. See Connected Apps for the full guide.

Billing

Open the Billing tab to see your current plan, change payment methods, switch between monthly and yearly, or cancel. Cancellations take effect at the end of the current billing period — you keep access to paid features until then. See Billing and Subscriptions.

Notifications

Control which email notifications you receive:

• Video lecture completion -- Get an email when a generated video is ready.
• Podcast completion -- Get an email when a generated podcast is ready.
• AI Slides completion -- Get an email when generated slides are ready.

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.