The AI workspace built for serious research
Bring your papers, PDFs, and recordings into one place. Ask real questions, get citation-backed answers grounded in your sources, and turn weeks of reading into understanding you can build on.
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How Researchers Use Scholarly
Survey a literature in days, not months
Upload a folder of papers and ask questions across all of them at once. Compare methods, findings, and limitations without re-reading every PDF from the start.
Get answers you can verify
Every answer is grounded in your sources and cites where it came from, so you can jump to the exact passage and check the claim before you rely on it.
Capture talks, seminars, and interviews
Record a seminar or upload interview audio. Scholarly transcribes it, summarizes the key points, and makes the whole recording searchable and quotable.
Listen to papers on the go
Turn dense papers into clear, conversational audio overviews — keep moving through your reading list on the commute or between experiments.
Features That Matter for Research
Deep Research
Ask a real research question and get a structured, cited write-up built from actual sources — then push back, go deeper, and refine it.
Chat across multiple PDFs
Question a single 300-page document or your whole reading list at once, with citation-backed answers that point at the source.
Concept maps
See how the ideas in a paper or an entire field connect. Generate concept maps from your material to spot gaps and relationships.
Grounded drafting
Draft notes, summaries, and sections with AI that has read your sources — structured, cited, and yours to edit in the same workspace.
How It Works
Upload your sources
PDFs, papers, web pages, audio, and video — bring everything for a project into one workspace.
Ask and explore
Chat with your sources, run deep research, and get grounded answers with citations you can verify.
Synthesize and share
Turn what you learned into notes, summaries, slides, or an audio overview — without leaving your sources behind.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do the answers cite real sources?
Yes. When you chat with your documents, answers are grounded in the files you uploaded and cite the passages they came from, so you can open the source and verify every claim. Deep Research reads and cites real external sources the same way.
Can I ask questions across many papers at once?
Yes. You can chat with a single paper or select multiple documents and ask comparative questions across all of them — useful for literature reviews, related-work sections, and checking how findings differ between studies.
How does it handle very long documents?
Scholarly is built for long material — 300-page PDFs, dissertations, and full conference proceedings. Upload the document and ask questions, request summaries, or generate an audio overview without splitting the file yourself.
Is my unpublished research private?
Your uploads are private to your account and are not shared with other users. You stay in control of your library and can delete your materials at any time.
Keep exploring
Tools that pair well
Build a complete research stack with these tools.
Research Paper Analyzer
Break down methods, findings, and limitations.
Research Paper Summarizer
Dense papers to clear summaries.
PDF Summarizer
Key points from any long PDF.
Citation Generator
Clean citations in any style.
Concept Map Generator
Map how ideas in a field connect.
Mind Map Generator
Visualize a topic at a glance.
Website Summarizer
Summarize articles and web sources.
YouTube Summarizer
Talks and lectures to key takeaways.
Audio to Notes
Interviews and seminars to clean notes.
Academic Writing Coach
Sharpen drafts and arguments.
PDF to Podcast
Listen to papers on the go.
Lecture Transcription
Accurate transcripts from any talk.
Ready to Get Through Your Reading List?
Join researchers who turn piles of papers into grounded, citable understanding.
Free
- 3 AI Chat messages per day
- 3 AI creations per day
- 1 file upload per day (8MB)
- 1 research report per day
- 5 quiz questions per day
- 1 exam attempt per day
- 15 voice minutes per day
- 32-page PDF to flashcards
- 500 autocomplete words per day
Use it to generate flashcards, improve a deck, make a podcast, create a video lecture or infographic, build slides, or process a recording.
Ultimate
$144 billed yearly
Everything in Free, plus:
- Unlimited normal chat & autocomplete
- Unlimited premium model messages
- Unlimited AI creations
- Unlimited file uploads (up to 300MB)
- Unlimited study sessions
- Unlimited exams & quizzes
- 1000-page PDF to flashcards
- Export to Anki
- Priority support
Pricing in USD. Local currency available in app.
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What students say
Scholarly has been a valuable tool for my studies. The AI-generated flashcards and intuitive features make organizing and retaining information much easier.
Briana
Student
This app is great for studying for big test. Drop your PDF's in the system and it'll do the trick. You can organize it specifically for your needs.
Kelvin
Student
I am currently preparing for a test that covers a substantial amount of material, and I've found that not having to physically write out my flashcards has been incredibly beneficia...
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Scholarly is great for students. I am enrolled in online university and my classes are all PDF based. All I do is upload the PDF and it creates flashcards decks for me. The greate...
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Your questions, answered
Is Scholarly free to use?
Yes! The free plan includes core study tools with daily limits: AI Chat messages, 3 AI creations per day, research reports, file uploads, quizzes, practice exams, and manual flashcard creation. Upgrade to Ultimate when you want unlimited AI creations and higher limits.
What uses my daily AI creation?
Generating flashcards, improving a flashcard deck, making a podcast, creating a video lecture or infographic, building slides, or processing a recording each use the same daily free AI creation allowance. AI Chat messages, uploads, quizzes, and exams have their own separate daily limits.
Can I cancel anytime?
Absolutely. There are no contracts or commitments. You can cancel your subscription at any time from your account settings, and you'll keep access until the end of your billing period.
What payment methods do you accept?
We accept all major credit and debit cards through Stripe. Pricing is displayed in USD by default, but local currency is available in the app.
Do you offer discounts for educators?
Yes, we offer special pricing for educators and educational institutions. Contact us at hello@scholarly.so for details.
What happens when I hit a free plan limit?
You'll see a prompt to upgrade. Your existing work is never lost — limits only apply to new daily actions like AI Chat messages, uploads, quiz questions, and new AI creations. Limits reset every day.
For Educators or Schools
Contact us for special pricing at hello@scholarly.so.