Scholarly
Scholarly is a browser-based AI workspace that turns source material into study, research, and work outputs.
What Scholarly is
Scholarly is a browser-based AI workspace that turns source material into study, research, and work outputs. Add PDFs, recordings, notes, slides, webpages, videos, images, YouTube links, or pasted text, then create flashcards, quizzes, practice exams, study guides, podcasts, video lectures, slides, mind maps, worksheets, and timelines. Chat answers include checked citations, with a Sources button that opens the page supporting each claim. Its Deep Research feature searches the web and produces cited reports with charts and inline source links.
Scholarly runs in browsers on laptops, tablets, and phones, and syncs work through an account. The Google Drive connection can use selected files as sources and save finished work as new Docs or Slides. Team features include shared libraries, roles, central billing, and model controls. Scholarly says private user content is not used to train general-purpose AI by default; training requires a separate opt-in.
Good
- Accepts files, links, recordings, and pasted text.
- Creates a wide range of study materials.
- Chat answers include checked citations.
- Deep Research produces cited reports with charts.
- Team features include shared libraries and central billing.
Watch out
- Free plan has one file upload total.
- Free plan includes only three lifetime AI Chat messages.
- Private content training requires a separate opt-in.
Who it suits
Scholarly suits students, researchers, educators, and professionals who want to build study or work materials from their own sources. Teams can use shared libraries, roles, and central billing.
Verdict
Scholarly brings source-based study creation, cited chat, and web research into one browser workspace. Check the free plan’s lifetime limits and the paid plan details against the amount of material you need to process.
Plans and prices
From Scholarly's own pricing page, checked 15 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | 3 lifetime AI Chat messages · 1 AI Creation Credit total · 1 file upload total (8MB) · 5 lifetime quiz questions · 1 practice exam · 15 lifetime voice minutes · 32-page PDF to flashcards · Free forever |
| Premium | $30 a month | 15 AI Creation Credits/week · unlimited chat and autocomplete · uploads up to 300MB · podcasts up to 60 minutes · videos up to 45 minutes · 1,000-page PDF flashcards · Monthly |
| Premium for Teams | $35 a month | 15 AI Creation Credits/member/week · shared workspace · Owner, Admin and Member roles · central billing · Monthly |
| Laureate | $99 a month | 80 AI Creation Credits/week · uploads up to 1GB · 3,000-page PDFs · up to 20 sources per creation · 12 hours of voice mode/day · Billed monthly · cancel anytime |
| Laureate for Teams | $110 a month | 80 AI Creation Credits/member/week · Frontier models · shared workspace · Owner, Admin and Member roles · central billing · Monthly |
| Premium | $144 a year | 15 AI Creation Credits/week · unlimited chat and autocomplete · uploads up to 300MB · podcasts up to 60 minutes · videos up to 45 minutes · 1,000-page PDF flashcards · Billed yearly at $144 |
| Premium for Teams | $336 a year | 15 AI Creation Credits/member/week · shared workspace · Owner, Admin and Member roles · central billing · $336 per seat billed yearly |
| Laureate for Teams | $1,056 a year | 80 AI Creation Credits/member/week · Frontier models · shared workspace · Owner, Admin and Member roles · central billing · $1,056 per seat billed yearly |
The facts
Each one read from Scholarly's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- AI chat citations
- Chat answers include a Sources control that opens the exact source page or timestamp used, and citations are checked before saving.checked 15 Oct 2026
- AI limitation
- The terms warn that AI outputs can be inaccurate, incomplete or unsuitable and should be reviewed before consequential use.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Anki export
- Paid plans can export flashcard decks as Anki .apkg files.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Audience
- Scholarly describes use by students, researchers, educators, professionals, training teams, research groups, and organizations.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Citations
- AI chat answers provide checked citations with a Sources button that opens the exact page used for each claim.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Deep Research
- Deep Research investigates questions across attached sources and the open web, returning briefs, comparison tables, cited reports or slide decks.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Documentation
- The official help center provides getting-started guides, feature documentation, troubleshooting, team guidance and an email contact address.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Domain fact
- Scam Detector reports the scholarly.so domain was registered on May 8, 2023, through NameCheap.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Flashcards
- The service generates editable active-recall flashcards and supports spaced-repetition scheduling.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Google Drive
- The Google Drive connection lets users select specific Docs, Sheets, Slides, PDFs, Word files, PowerPoints, and text files as sources and save finished work as new Google Docs or Slides files.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Google Drive integration
- Users can select specific Google Drive files as sources and export finished work as new Google Docs or Google Slides files.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Independent feature summary
- AIChief reports instant flashcards, adaptive quizzes, lecture transcription, podcast creation, video lectures, spaced repetition and exports to Anki and Quizlet.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Independent security score
- Scam Detector assigns scholarly.so a 68/100 trust score and labels it Known, Vetted, Low Risk.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: learning curve
- AIChief lists a learning curve for some advanced features as a drawback.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: source quality
- AIChief says effectiveness depends on the quality of the material uploaded by the user.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Meeting notes
- The browser can record meetings or lectures, transcribe them and produce summaries, decisions, action items and timestamped topics.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Mobile availability
- The maker says there is no native iPhone, iPad or Android app; Scholarly runs in a mobile browser and can be added to a home screen.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Notable news: October 13, 2026
- The changelog says chats began automatically receiving subject-based names and icons.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Notable news: October 5, 2026
- The changelog says meeting recordings no longer consume AI Creation Credits and have weekly meeting allowances by plan.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Pages editor
- The page editor supports autocomplete, tables, equations, images, spelling and grammar checks, chat-based editing, and Word, PowerPoint and Google exports.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Podcasts
- Scholarly creates multi-speaker podcast episodes from PDFs, text, images or topics, with transcripts and chapter slides.checked 15 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Browser access
- Scholarly runs in a browser on laptops, tablets, and phones and syncs work through the user account.checked 30 Sep 2026
The company
- Headquarters
- United States (USA)checked 28 Sep 2026
- Maker identity
- The terms identify the service provider simply as Scholarly and state that it is based in the United States.checked 15 Oct 2026
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