Guide

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.

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, grounded answers from your own sources, and study or work materials — plus voice mode, tools, and approvals.

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

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

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

Create AI flashcards from any source, study with spaced repetition, refine a whole deck in one prompt, and test yourself with quizzes and exams.

Test yourself with adaptive quizzes and timed exams generated from your own sources, check the evidence behind every answer key, and challenge a key you think is wrong.

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

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 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.

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

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

Write notes, briefs, and documentation in Scholarly's rich text editor with AI autocomplete, tables, equations, embedded media, exports to Word and Google Docs, and a built-in chat sidebar.

How to see exactly what an answer was built from — the Sources button, inline citations that jump to the page or timestamp, and how every citation is checked before the answer is saved.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

The complete guide to AI Document — every type it builds, from reports, SOPs, case studies and timelines to spreadsheets, calendars and flowcharts, plus editable Word, PowerPoint and Google exports.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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.

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.

Use Scholarly's built-in slash commands and ready-made skills, and create your own custom AI skills for workflows you repeat.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

Take what you made out of Scholarly — which formats each kind of work offers, how Google Docs and Google Slides saving works, and what survives the trip.

What a failure message means, why the recovery buttons change from one failure to the next, what Scholarly keeps, and what happens to the credit you spent.

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.

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.

Is there a Scholarly app for iPhone, iPad, or Android? How Scholarly is built for phones, what each surface looks like on a small screen, and what deliberately stays on desktop.

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.

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

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.

A plain-language guide to what stays private in Scholarly, how sharing works, your cookie and advertising choices, what a team admin can and cannot see, and how to delete content or your whole account.

A workflow guide for turning handbooks, specs, reports, and recorded sessions into SOPs, video lectures, study guides, quizzes, and briefs other people can actually learn from.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Create a team workspace, add the first source so Scholarly drafts something useful straight away, invite two teammates on the free 3-seat trial, and choose seats and a plan.

Accept a Teams invitation, see where you land, understand the plan access, shared Library, and team projects that come with membership, and what stays private to you.

A tour of the Team workspace — the shared Library, seats and invitations, roles and requests to join, AI model access and data-retention rules, shared profiles, Activity reporting, and billing.

Share folders, files, and projects into your team's Library, understand who can edit what, use team-owned projects, and see which shared work people actually open.

How the shared team library works, what team-owned projects change, transferring a project between a person and the team, approving join requests, and setting the library up so people actually use it.

What Scholarly does with your team's material, how admins restrict which AI models the team can use, the Zero Data Retention rule, what adoption reporting does and does not show, and who to contact for a security review.

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