Scholarly vs Save My Exams: Examiner-Written Revision, or Revision Made From Your Files

It depends what you are replacing. For examiner-written notes and board-specific question banks there is no substitute, and pretending to be one would not help you. If what you need is revision material for your particular course — including the many courses nobody publishes revision guides for — Scholarly builds it from the notes, slides and recordings you already have.

There is a free account, and it gives you limited access to the revision notes. Full access to the notes, the question banks and the past papers sits behind a paid subscription sold monthly, quarterly or annually. Scholarly has a free plan you can start on without a card, and paid plans that raise the limits when you need them.

For a student on a mainstream GCSE, IGCSE, A-Level, IB or AP specification who wants topic questions to drill and notes that match their board, yes — that is a real service and it is difficult to replicate. It is worth considerably less if you sit a course they do not cover, or if your problem is not finding material but getting through the material already on your desk.

Scholarly does not hold the specifications, so it will not write to a board the way an examiner does. What it does is condense the material you give it — including a specification document or your teacher's scheme of work, if you upload one — into notes, cards and questions that follow your source rather than a generic outline.

Yes, and most students on a supported board should. Their notes and question banks tell you what the exam expects; Scholarly turns your own lessons into something you can practise on the days between attempts at their papers. Neither one is doing the other's job.

There is no official app. An app under that name exists in the App Store but is published by a third-party developer with no stated connection to the site, so look closely at what you are installing. Scholarly has no native app either — it runs in a browser on a laptop or a phone.

Flashcards on a spaced-repetition schedule, a practice quiz, a condensed study guide, a mind map, a slide deck, an audio overview and a narrated video lecture — plus a chat that answers questions from the notes with the page attached. Photographed pages, PDFs, slides, documents and recordings all work as input.