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Getting Started
Uploading Content
Upload PDFs, documents, images, and audio to Scholarly, paste URLs from the web, and turn your own materials into AI chat, flashcards, podcasts, and more.
Your Home and Library
Tour the Scholarly home page — pinned content, recently created study materials, the AI tool grid, your folders, and how to find anything fast.
AI Chat and Voice Mode
Use Scholarly AI Chat for explanations, study materials, and answers — use voice mode for hands-free conversations and tools for richer responses.
Getting Started with Scholarly
New to Scholarly? Set up your account, upload your first PDF, generate flashcards and notes, and start studying with AI Chat in under 10 minutes.
Settings
Customize your Scholarly account — edit your profile, switch dark or light mode, pick AI voice options, manage notifications, and tune study preferences.
Plans and Limits
See what's included in Scholarly's Free and Ultimate plans, including daily limits on AI chat, flashcards, podcasts, video lectures, uploads, and exports for each tier.
Features
Explore and Discover
Browse public flashcards, notes, research reports, and study sets shared by other Scholarly students — find ready-made materials for your subject.
Flashcards, Quizzes, and Exams
Create AI flashcards from any source, study with spaced repetition, and test yourself with quizzes and exams.
Notes and Pages
Write lecture notes and study guides in Scholarly's rich text editor with AI autocomplete, tables, equations, embedded media, and a built-in chat sidebar.
AI Podcasts
Turn PDFs, notes, images, or any topic into AI-generated multi-speaker podcast episodes on Scholarly with transcripts, chapter markers, and source citations.
Lecture Recordings
Record lectures live in your browser or upload existing audio, get automatic transcription, AI summaries, topic lists, and chat grounded in the transcript.
Slash Commands & Custom Skills
Use built-in slash commands and create your own custom AI skills for faster study workflows.
Voice Mode
Have spoken conversations with AI Chat, control playback speed, and study hands-free.
Quizzes and Exams
Test yourself with adaptive quizzes and timed exams generated from your study materials.
Study Streaks and Progress
Track your daily study habits with streaks, spaced repetition reminders, and progress stats.
Refine Flashcards with AI
Refine an entire flashcard deck in one prompt — ask Scholarly's AI to make cards harder, simpler, more detailed, or focused on specific topics in seconds.
Hard Questions
Flag difficult flashcards, get AI-generated hints, and track your progress until you master them.
AI Image Generation
Generate and edit images with AI directly in chat — diagrams, illustrations, cover art, and more.
Chat Canvas
Sketch diagrams, equations, and concept maps inside Scholarly's Chat Canvas, then send your drawing to the AI for analysis, explanation, or follow-up questions.
PDF Chat and Analysis
Upload any PDF to Scholarly to chat with it, generate flashcards, summaries, podcasts, slides, and more — supports textbooks, papers, and lecture handouts.
Deep Research
Run AI-powered web research that searches sources, evaluates evidence, and produces structured reports with citations, charts, and audio narration.
Practice Exams
Take timed, full-length practice exams generated from your Scholarly flashcard decks with mixed question types, graded results, history, and retake options.
Retrying with a Different Model
Retry an AI response with another model and switch between versions in the same conversation.
Choosing an AI Model
Compare and pick the right AI model for chat, AI Slides, and video lectures on Scholarly — learn each model's strengths and when to swap for better results.
Captions for Podcasts and Videos
Read along with synced captions on every AI Podcast and AI Video Lecture in Scholarly. Turn captions on or off, change languages, and follow speaker labels line by line.
Exporting Flashcards
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.
AI Slides
Generate slide decks from your PDFs, lectures, or any topic using Scholarly's AI Slides — covers generating decks, downloading them as PDF, and editing tips.
Interactive Video Questions
Active recall checkpoints inside Scholarly video lectures pause playback to quiz you on what you just watched, with best and last scores, full attempt history, and instant AI feedback.
AI Video Lectures
Turn PDFs, notes, or any topic into fully narrated, animated video lectures with scenes, illustrations, charts, equations, chapters, captions, transcripts, and AI chat support.
Video Modes
Pick how your AI Video Lecture teaches — Standard, Math, Storybook, or Kids. Each mode re-teaches the same material in its own style, tone, and visual language.
Requesting Access to Shared Content
Ask the owner for access when someone shares a private Scholarly link with you — flashcards, PDFs, video lectures, podcasts, recordings, research, and chats are all supported.
General
Keyboard Shortcuts
Master Scholarly's keyboard shortcuts for navigation, chat, flashcard study, and editing — work faster across the app without reaching for the mouse.
Supported File Formats
Reference of every file type Scholarly accepts — PDFs, docs, images, audio, video, and links — and which AI features work with each format.
Folders and Organization
Organize your study materials into folders, use drag and drop, and let AI sort your content automatically.
Using Scholarly Content Commercially
What you can and cannot do with content you create on Scholarly, including commercial projects.
Feedback and Bug Reporting
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.
Connected Apps
Link Google Workspace to Scholarly so AI Chat can search your Drive files and reference your Calendar events — set it up, manage permissions, and disconnect any time.
AI Organizer
Let AI sort your unfoldered Scholarly content into folders — one click suggestions, accept or dismiss each one, and a folder name picked for new uploads as you add them.
Background Tasks and Notifications
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.
Command Palette
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.
Sharing and Collaboration
Share Scholarly pages, flashcards, PDFs, video lectures, podcasts, recordings, research, and chats — copy a link, generate a QR code, send via your phone's share sheet, invite by email, and track views.
Scholarly on Mobile
Use Scholarly comfortably on phones — quick-create button, native share sheet, sticky recording controls, mobile-friendly chat and editor, and full feature parity.
Billing and Subscriptions
Manage your Scholarly subscription -- Free or Ultimate, pause for a month, update payment methods, view invoices, and cancel anytime.