Turn any text into a narrated video lecture

Paste your text and Scholarly's AI reads the content, writes a narrated script, and generates animated scenes with visualizations, diagrams, and illustrations. The result is a fully narrated video lecture you can watch and study from.

Yes. The Free plan includes one shared lifetime AI creation across Scholarly, and it does not reset. Free video uses a fixed 2-minute length at 720p. Premium includes 10 AI creations each week, custom target length, 1080p, watermark-free output, and MP4 download.

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

Any educational text works well: lecture notes, textbook excerpts, study guides, Wikipedia articles, or your own summaries. Longer, more detailed text gives the AI more material to create engaging scenes. There's no maximum length.

Synthesia, Pictory, and similar tools are built for marketing and business videos. Scholarly is built for education. Your videos include chapter navigation, searchable transcripts, AI chat, and one-click flashcard generation — study features that marketing tools don't offer.

Yes. After your video is generated, you can create flashcards from the content with one click and study them with spaced repetition. Exporting to Anki, Quizlet, or PDF, downloading, and printing require a paid plan.

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

Scholarly handles all subjects — sciences, humanities, languages, math, engineering, business, and more. The AI adapts its visualizations to match the content type, creating different styles for biology diagrams vs. historical timelines vs. code walkthroughs.

You can't edit individual scenes, but you can regenerate the video with modified text. The chapter navigation and transcript let you quickly find and review any section without scrubbing through the full video.

Watermark-free output requires a paid plan. The Free plan includes one shared lifetime AI creation across Scholarly; it does not reset and can generate a fixed 2-minute video at 720p. You can view and share the result in Scholarly. Paid plans include 1080p, custom target length, watermark-free output, and MP4 download.

Yes. Typed notes can be pasted straight into the text box; note files can be uploaded as PDF or Word documents; handwritten notes work if you photograph or scan them to PDF first. Scholarly also has a dedicated notes to video workflow built for exactly this — it produces the same narrated, chaptered lecture from messy class notes.

Both work. You can type a topic prompt like "explain the Krebs cycle for a biochemistry exam" and the AI builds the lecture itself. But when you have real course material, paste it — a source-grounded video sticks to your professor's terminology, scope, and emphasis instead of producing a generic overview.

When speed matters more than depth. Rereading a short summary is faster than watching it; finding one fact is faster with AI chat or search; problem-heavy courses reward practice questions over watching explanations. Convert text to video when the material is long, dense, or unfamiliar — that's where narrated visual explanation pays off.

Yes. Upload a standard operating procedure, onboarding guide, process doc, or policy PDF — up to three files in one video — 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 three files into one video — 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.