The AI video generator that teaches from your own material

Scholarly has a free plan with no credit card. Its one lifetime AI Creation Credit can go on a video: about 2 minutes long, 720p, narrated, carrying Scholarly branding, and viewable or shareable by link. The catch: that credit is shared with every other Scholarly tool, the length is fixed, and MP4 download is paid.

Yes. Upload the PDF and Scholarly reads the text and figures, works out the teaching order, writes narration from those pages, and renders scenes that explain them, reusing figures from the file where they help. On Free, PDFs up to 8 MB are read to 32 pages; Premium reads up to 1,000 pages and Laureate up to 3,000.

Free videos are about 2 minutes. Premium and Laureate let you set a target before you generate, anywhere up to 45 minutes. With the default model a video is 1 AI Creation Credit; going past 15 minutes adds 1 credit and past 30 minutes adds 2. The vertical Short design has its own fixed length.

No. Every video is narrated by an AI voice over animated scenes, and nobody appears on camera. If you specifically need a digital presenter reading your script, avatar platforms such as HeyGen or Synthesia are built for that. Scholarly is for explaining material clearly rather than putting a face on it.

On Premium and Laureate, yes. Turn the Scholarly logo off when you generate and the MP4 has no watermark; the export pack also bundles the script and caption files, plus the companion slide PDF for Standard videos. Free accounts can watch in Scholarly and pass around a view link, but cannot download the file.

You pick the output language from more than 70 languages and regional variants, and the narration, on-screen text, captions and transcript all follow it. The source can be in a different language, so an English report can become a Spanish or Japanese video. Arabic and Hebrew videos lay text out right to left.

Sora, Veo and Runway generate footage from a prompt, so they are the right tools for cinematic or photoreal clips. HeyGen generates an avatar who speaks your script. Scholarly does neither: it turns a document, deck or topic into a narrated explainer with diagrams, chapters, captions and a transcript, written from your source. Pick by the job: footage, presenter, or explanation.

Yes. Type the topic and what the video should cover, and the AI plans the lesson from general knowledge. For anything where accuracy matters, such as a company process or a specific syllabus, attach the source so the script follows it instead of the open web.

Each week Premium comes with 15 AI Creation Credits and Laureate with 80, and every creation tool spends from that same balance. A video uses 1 credit with the default model, more with a premium model or a length above 15 minutes, so a Premium week covers up to 15 shorter videos.

Yes. A view link plays in any browser with chapters, captions and the transcript; on a paid plan you can also take the MP4 and put it wherever your team or learners already watch video. For a group, Scholarly for Teams adds shared source libraries, Owner, Admin and Member roles, and a single bill covering every seat.