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, to start. The Free plan includes one lifetime AI Creation Credit, shared across every Scholarly tool, and it can make one narrated notes video of about 2 minutes at 720p with Scholarly branding, with no credit card. Free uploads are up to 8 MB and PDFs are read up to 32 pages. Watching and sharing by link are free; MP4 download, 1080p, a custom length up to 45 minutes, and 15 AI Creation Credits a week come with Premium.

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.

A 2-minute video usually takes about 8 to 20 minutes to generate, and longer lectures take longer: about 18 to 40 minutes for a 10-minute video and about 55 to 95 minutes for 45 minutes. It runs on Scholarly's servers, so you can close the tab and come back to the finished video.

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 into question-and-answer cards that Scholarly schedules with spaced repetition. Exporting them to Anki or PDF requires a paid plan.

Yes, on any paid plan. Classmates and teammates can always watch a shared link in the browser. Premium and Laureate download the finished lecture as an MP4, and turning the Scholarly logo off when you generate gives a watermark-free file; the export pack adds the companion slides PDF (Standard mode), the script, and caption files. On the Free plan you watch the video in Scholarly and share it with a view link that opens in the browser, but download is not included.

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.

Narration, captions, and the transcript can be generated in 70+ output languages and regional variants, including English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Hindi, Arabic, Japanese, and Chinese. Your notes and the video do not have to share a language, so English notes can become a Spanish or Hindi video. Arabic and Hebrew lectures are laid out right to left, and on-screen text follows the lecture's language.

On the Free plan, a video lecture is a fixed length of about 2 minutes. On Premium and Laureate you set a target length up to 45 minutes before generating (15 minutes is the default), and the lecture is planned to that length, so a long set of notes gets more chapters rather than a rushed pace. Each video costs 1 AI Creation Credit with the default model, plus 1 extra credit above 15 minutes and 2 extra above 30 minutes. The vertical Short format keeps its own fixed length.

Scholarly is purpose-built for learning from your own material, not for marketing clips. Instead of pasting a summary onto stock slides, it reads your actual notes as a teaching source, keeps definitions and worked steps intact, and renders a chaptered lecture wired into a study loop: transcript search, AI chat grounded in your notes, and one-click flashcards and quizzes. Free includes one 2-minute video; paid plans go up to 45 minutes with MP4 download.

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. Compliance manuals and policy handbooks work the same way. Paid plans render up to 45 minutes at 1080p; Free renders one 2-minute video.

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 15 AI Creation Credits every week, Premium is $30/mo or $180/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.

It is a narrated lecture built from new scenes, not a recording of your notes: a natural voice explains the material while diagrams, charts, equations, and step-by-step builds animate in sync, and the AI can add generated pictures or figures cut from your notes. The video is 16:9 (Short is vertical), split into chapters, with captions you can switch on, a searchable transcript, optional question checkpoints, and AI chat. Standard is the default style; Illustrated, Short, Manim Math Animation, and Freestyle are the other modes.