Turn your notes into a narrated video lecture

Upload your notes as a PDF, paste text, or upload a photo of handwritten notes. Scholarly's AI reads the content, writes a narrated script, and generates an animated video lecture with visualizations and natural voice narration.

Yes, free users can use their lifetime AI Creation Credit to make a video lecture. Premium includes 10 AI Creation Credits each week, longer videos, and other study tools like flashcards, quizzes, and AI chat.

Yes. Take a photo of your handwritten notes and upload the image. Scholarly's AI uses optical character recognition to read your handwriting and convert it into a video lecture.

Video generation typically takes 10–25 minutes depending on the length and complexity of your notes. You can close the page and come back — you'll get a notification when the video is ready.

PDF, Word documents (.docx), PowerPoint (.pptx), images of handwritten notes, and pasted text. Notes from Google Docs, Notion, OneNote, Evernote, or any other app work as long as you export them or copy-paste the text.

Yes. After your video is generated, you can create flashcards with one click. The AI extracts the key concepts and generates question-and-answer cards for spaced repetition study or export to Anki.

Yes. Share your generated video lecture with classmates or study groups directly from Scholarly. Everyone gets access to the video, transcript, and AI chat features.

No. The AI handles all note-taking styles — bullet points, outlines, paragraphs, mind maps, and even messy shorthand. Your formatting doesn't need to be perfect.

All subjects work — sciences, humanities, languages, math, engineering, and more. The AI adapts its visualizations to match the content type and creates appropriate diagrams for each subject.

Upload your notes on this page — as a PDF, a photo of handwritten pages, or pasted text — and Scholarly's AI reads them, expands your shorthand into full explanations, writes a narrated script, and renders an animated video lecture in about 10–25 minutes. No script writing, slide design, or voice recording needed on your end. The finished video has chapters, a searchable transcript, AI chat, and one-click flashcards.

Scholarly is purpose-built for studying, not marketing clips. Unlike general AI video tools that paste a summary onto stock slides, it reads your actual notes as a teaching source — keeping definitions and worked steps intact — and renders a chaptered lecture wired into a study loop (transcript search, AI chat grounded in your notes, one-click flashcards and quizzes). For students turning class notes into something they can revise from, it consistently ranks as the best notes to video AI in 2026.

Yes. Scholarly builds the same chaptered, narrated lecture from a PDF (lecture slides, textbook chapters), pasted text, or a YouTube link — use the matching tool for whichever source you already have. The notes to video workflow is the right one when your input is class notes, especially messy or handwritten ones.

When you need speed over depth. For a fast pre-exam skim, a written study guide is quicker than watching. For finding one definition, AI chat or searching your notes wins. For problem-heavy courses, practice questions build more skill. Notes to video is strongest on your first pass through a topic, for visual subjects, and when you can only listen — commutes, the gym, chores.

Yes. Upload a standard operating procedure, onboarding guide, process doc, or policy PDF — up to 10 files in one video (20 on Laureate) — and Scholarly writes a teaching script only from that material, then generates a narrated video with chapters, captions, and a full transcript. Because the script comes from your document rather than the open internet, it uses your steps and your terminology. Review it before rolling it out, as with anything AI-generated.

Yes. Text-based files produce the best results, and PDFs, Word documents, and slide decks all work. You can combine up to 10 files into one video (20 on Laureate) — for example an SOP plus the policy behind it — and when the document changes you update it and generate a fresh video in minutes instead of re-recording. The uploaded material stays in your workspace, so teammates can also chat with it and get cited answers.

Yes. Every video can be shared with a link and watched in the browser with chapters, captions, and a transcript, and paid plans can download a watermark-free MP4 to host in your wiki or anywhere else. Scholarly for Teams adds shared source libraries so everyone builds from the same approved material, invitations by email or link with Member and Admin roles, per-member activity, and one central bill for the seats you choose on Premium for Teams or Laureate for Teams; the team plan unlocks its formats and AI limits for every seat.

Yes. Scholarly runs in any browser on a laptop or phone, with no app or extension to install and no trial that expires. Sign up, upload your notes, and your free lifetime AI Creation Credit produces a narrated 2-minute video at 720p. That first video is genuinely free; if you want longer videos and 10 AI Creation Credits every week, Premium is $30/mo or $144/yr.

Yes. Photograph handwritten pages or upload lecture notes as a PDF, Word document, slide deck, or pasted text, and Scholarly reads the writing, expands shorthand into full explanations, and narrates it as a video lecture. Clear, well-lit photos read best. The AI keeps your definitions and worked steps rather than replacing them with a generic summary of the topic.

Generation usually takes 10–25 minutes; you can leave the page and get notified when it is ready. The result is a narrated, illustrated lecture: a natural voice explaining your notes over animated visuals and diagrams, split into chapters with captions and a searchable transcript. Free videos are a fixed 2 minutes at 720p; Premium videos run up to 45 minutes at 1080p and can be downloaded as a watermark-free MP4.