The study guide generator that goes source → outline → guide

Upload a PDF, paste your lecture notes or textbook chapter, or just type a topic. Scholarly's AI structures the content into sections, key terms, summaries, and review questions in seconds.

Section headings organized by topic, key term definitions, mid-section summaries, and end-of-section review questions. You can edit any of it before studying.

Yes — STEM, med, law, history, languages, CS, business, economics. The AI adapts the structure to whatever discipline you're studying.

Length matches your source. A 10-page lecture handout produces a focused 2-3 page guide; a full textbook chapter can produce 10+ pages.

Yes. On Premium and Laureate, every study guide downloads as a PDF you can print, or as a Word (.docx) or PowerPoint (.pptx) file. Free accounts read the guide in Scholarly and share it by link.

Yes. Many students use it for AP courses, undergraduate exams, and graduate-level content. Adjust the depth via your input — a textbook chapter produces a deeper guide than a single slide deck.

Yes — generating study guides is free with lifetime free AI Creation Credit limits, and no credit card is needed to sign up. Premium includes 10 AI Creation Credits each week and longer source documents.

PDFs (textbook chapters, handouts), recordings and audio files, YouTube videos, slide decks, websites, pasted notes, and plain topic names. Audio and video sources are transcribed first, then the guide is generated from the transcript.

Same underlying AI, different working style. The generator is one-pass: add a source, get a finished guide, done. The study guide maker page is for students who want more control — it covers study guide templates and a manual + AI hybrid approach where you design the structure and let AI fill in the sections. If you're not sure, start with the generator; you can always restructure afterwards.

Upload the PDF — a textbook chapter, lecture handout, or slide export — and the study guide generator reads the document and builds the guide directly from it: sections in the chapter's own order, key terms with definitions, summaries, and review questions. Because the guide is grounded in the file, every section traces back to the page it came from, so you can verify nothing was invented.

Yes. Scholarly's study guide generator is free to start, with no credit card, and comes with lifetime free AI Creation Credit limits that cover trying the workflow. You can upload a PDF or paste notes, generate the guide, and read it in Scholarly on the free plan. Premium includes 10 AI Creation Credits each week, PDF, Word, and PowerPoint downloads, and supports longer documents for students prepping for big exams.

Yes. Paste a week of lecture notes and the generator distills them into a structured guide; or, if you have no materials yet, type a topic name ("the Krebs cycle," "the French Revolution") and it builds a guide from what an exam on that topic typically covers. The richer your source, the more your guide reflects your specific course rather than a generic outline.

PDFs, Word documents, PowerPoint decks, spreadsheets, and text files, plus website links and files from a connected Google Drive. You can also paste notes or simply name a topic. Free accounts use one source per guide; Premium combines up to 10 sources into one guide and Laureate up to 20, so a full unit of lecture handouts can become a single guide. For a long PDF, choose the page range you want covered in the create step and the AI works from those pages only.

Yes, on paid plans. Every study guide opens in Scholarly on any plan, and Premium and Laureate accounts can download it as a PDF, as an editable Word (.docx) file, or as a PowerPoint (.pptx) file, and save a copy to Google Docs or Google Slides once Google Drive is connected. The Word export carries the guide's text page by page so you can keep editing it in Word; the PowerPoint export places each page as a picture slide, so the layout stays as generated. Free accounts see an upgrade prompt when they try to download, and a view link stays free.