Guide

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.

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, study materials, and answers — use voice mode for hands-free conversations and tools for richer responses.

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.

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

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

Learn how Laureate's 80 weekly AI creations, per-model credit costs, unlimited Chat, and weekly resets work.

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

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

Create AI flashcards from any source, study with spaced repetition, and test yourself with quizzes and exams.

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.

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

Record lectures and meetings live in your browser or upload existing audio, get automatic transcription, AI summaries, action items, flashcards, and chat grounded in the transcript.

Use built-in slash commands and create your own custom AI skills for faster study workflows.

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

Test yourself with adaptive quizzes and timed exams generated from your study materials, then review every answer you gave at the end of the session.

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.

Generate and edit images with AI directly in chat — diagrams, illustrations, cover art, and more.

Sketch diagrams, equations, and concept maps inside Scholarly's Chat Canvas, save them as images, and ask the AI to analyze what you drew.

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

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

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 your PDFs, library files, Google Drive docs, links, or a typed prompt into a structured, exam-ready study guide PDF you can download, share, and study from.

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 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.

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.

One upload, a full study folder — Scholarly builds a study guide, a practice worksheet with answer key, and a flashcard deck together and saves them all in one folder.

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.

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

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

Turn your sources or a typed prompt into a polished PDF, report, timeline, spreadsheet, table, export, calendar, or other source-grounded document.

Draft an essay with AI that has read your material — get a structured, cited first pass in Scholarly's editor, then keep editing it like any other page.

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.

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, 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.

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.

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.

See the default AI model and reasoning effort for every plan, what each model costs in AI creations, and how to choose a named model.

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.

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.

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.

Active recall checkpoints inside Scholarly video lectures quiz you on what you just watched — without pausing playback — with best and last scores, full attempt history, and instant AI feedback.

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.

Pick how your AI Video Lecture teaches — Standard, Illustrated, Short, Manim Math Animation, or Freestyle. Each mode re-teaches the same material in its own style, tone, and visual language.

Turn a prompt into study visuals in the AI Image Playground — pick a quality level, an aspect ratio, and generate with one or more image models at once, with optional reference images to remix.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Connect Google Drive so Chat can use only the specific files and accounts you approve.

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.

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.

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.

Is there a Scholarly app for iPhone, iPad, or Android? How to use Scholarly on a phone or tablet, install it to your home screen, and what works differently on a small screen.

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.

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.

Delete items and folders in Scholarly, find them again on the Deleted tab, and restore anything you removed by mistake.

Scholarly's AI Assistant remembers useful facts about you across conversations — see what it has saved, add your own, and mark anything outdated.

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

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

Schedule a one-time AI creation for a specific day and time, see everything you have queued on Home or in a project, and start any task early with Run now.

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.

Set the language Scholarly's interface uses, choose the language your AI answers and creations come out in, and control language per source.

How Scholarly Teams works — a free 3-seat trial, then Premium or Laureate access for every paid seat, with a shared library, roles, activity reporting, and one bill.

Create a team workspace, invite two teammates on the free 3-seat trial, upgrade to Premium or Laureate seats, and build a shared library your group actually uses.

Understand Premium and Laureate for Teams per-seat pricing, billing cadence, invoices, and seat changes.

Share folders, files, and projects into your team's library, keep ownership clear, and build one source of truth your whole team can create from.

Understand how per-member limits work in Teams, why there is no shared credit wallet, and what the admin usage reporting does and does not show.

A tour of the Team workspace — seats and invitations, roles, model access and data-retention rules, shared customization profiles, usage reporting, and billing.

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

Accept a Teams invitation, understand the plan access and shared library that come with membership, and see what stays private to you.