Study smarter, not harder, with AI
Learn how to study with AI the right way: turn your PDFs, notes, and lectures into flashcards, quizzes, and grounded explanations in seconds — with AI built on your own material, not generic answers.
170,000+ students already studying smarter • Free to start
Used by 170,000+ students worldwide
The basics
What is Study AI?
Study AI is the practice of using artificial intelligence tools to enhance your learning, improve retention, and save time studying.
Faster Learning
AI generates flashcards, summaries, and practice tests in seconds - saving you hours of manual work.
Better Retention
AI-powered spaced repetition and adaptive quizzes help you remember information longer.
Personalized Help
AI Chat provide instant, customized explanations tailored to your learning style and level.
Step by step
How to Study with AI: Complete Guide
Follow these steps to transform your studying with artificial intelligence.
- 1
Upload Your Study Materials
Start by uploading PDFs, lecture notes, textbook chapters, or any study material to Scholarly. AI works best when it has your actual course content.
- 2
Let AI Generate Study Resources
Use AI to instantly create flashcards, practice quizzes, study guides, and summaries from your materials. What used to take hours now takes 30 seconds.
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Study with Adaptive Learning
Practice with AI quizzes that adapt to your knowledge level. Focus on weak areas while skipping what you already know.
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Get Help from AI Chat
Stuck on a concept? Press ⌘J anywhere to use AI Chat. Get instant explanations, examples, and practice problems.
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Track Your Progress
AI tracks what you know and what you struggle with. See your mastery level for each topic and focus your study time where it matters most.
Why it works
Why Students Choose AI for Studying
Save Time on Study Setup
Use AI to create flashcards, notes, summaries, and practice tests faster from the material you already have.
Build Better Practice
Turn passive reading into active recall with adaptive quizzes, practice questions, and targeted review.
Study Anywhere, Anytime
Use AI Chat from any device. Get help at 2am before an exam or on your commute to class.
Free to Start
Unlike expensive tutors or premium-only apps, Scholarly has a free plan for core study tools and paid plans for higher limits.
In practice
How Students Use Study AI
Exam Preparation
Generate practice tests from lecture notes, create flashcards from textbook chapters, and quiz yourself until you've mastered every concept.
Research Papers
Summarize research papers in seconds, extract key findings, and organize sources with AI. Write better papers in less time.
Daily Homework
Get instant help with homework problems, check your work before submitting, and understand concepts you're struggling with.
Every tool here is a purpose-built AI agent
Scholarly doesn't just call a model once. Each feature is run by an autonomous AI agent that reads your material, reasons across multiple models, and can research the web and run code — then hands back a finished, cited artifact.
Multiple models
Agents route each step to the model that does it best, instead of relying on a single one.
Live web research
When your sources aren't enough, agents search the web and cite what they find.
Runs code in a sandbox
Each agent gets its own sandbox to compute, transform data, and build your artifact.
Grounded in your sources
Every output is built from the PDFs, notes, and lectures you upload — not guesswork.
By study task
Every AI study tool, grouped by what you're doing
Pick the AI study tool that fits the task in front of you — each one works from your own PDFs, notes, and lectures.
Flashcards & practice
Notes & study guides
Slides & presentations
Lecture recording & transcription
Podcasts & audio review
Video lectures
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
Is it cheating to use AI for studying?
No! Using AI for studying is like using a calculator for math - it's a tool to help you learn more efficiently. AI helps you create study materials, practice problems, and get explanations. You still do the learning and take the tests yourself.
How does AI help me study better?
AI analyzes your study materials and creates personalized flashcards, quizzes, and summaries. It adapts to your learning pace, focuses on your weak areas, and provides instant feedback - common study methods for improving retention and understanding.
Do I need technical skills to use study AI?
Not at all! Scholarly is designed to be simple - just upload your notes or PDFs and click generate. The AI does all the technical work. If you can use Google Docs, you can use Study AI.
How much does it cost to study with AI?
Scholarly has a free plan for core study tools. Premium unlocks higher limits and advanced features for students who need more.
What subjects can I study with AI?
All of them! AI works for STEM (math, physics, chemistry, biology), humanities (history, literature, philosophy), languages, business, and more. If you can study it, AI can help you learn it better.
How do I use AI to study for an exam?
Upload your lecture slides, notes, and past papers, then have the AI build a study guide and flashcards from them. Generate a practice test to find your weak spots, review those topics with AI Chat, and re-quiz yourself with spaced repetition until your mastery for each topic is high. Because everything is grounded in your own material, you study what's actually on your exam — not generic content.
Can I study with AI using my own lecture notes and PDFs?
Yes — that's the whole point. Scholarly is source-grounded, so you upload your real PDFs, lecture slides, handwritten-note photos, or YouTube lectures and the AI generates flashcards, notes, summaries, podcasts, and quizzes from that exact material. Answers cite your source, so you can trust they reflect your course rather than the open internet.
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Free
See what it does with one of your own sources.
- 3 AI Chat messages per day
- 1 free AI creation total
- 1 free file upload total (8MB)
- 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, or create a podcast, video lecture, slides, infographic, mind map, study guide, worksheet, spreadsheet, story book, timeline, SOP, flowchart, lesson plan, or outline — or run Deep Research or turn a recording into AI Meeting Notes.
Premium
Steady weekly output from the material you already have.
$30/month
Everything in Free, plus:
- 10 AI creations per week
- Unlimited AI chat & autocomplete
- Unlimited file uploads (up to 300MB)
- Unlimited study sessions
- Unlimited exams & quizzes
- 1000-page PDF to flashcards
- Export to Anki
- Priority support
Laureate
For work where being right matters more than the price.
billed monthly · cancel anytime
Everything in Premium, plus:
- Any Frontier model — Claude Opus 5, Gemini 3.1 Pro, Grok 4.6
- 75 AI creations per week
- 20 Frontier creations per week
- 20 Frontier Chat messages per week
- Unlimited uploads up to 1 GB, plus 3,000-page PDFs
- 12 hours of voice mode per day
- Priority support and early access to new Frontier models
Pricing shown in USD. Local currency may be available for Premium in app.
Compare plans
AI chat
Premium and Laureate include unlimited AI chat. Frontier Boost on makes Auto (Laureate) use Claude Opus 5; off uses GPT 5.6 Luna.
- Free
- 3/day
- Premium
- Unlimited
- Laureate
- Unlimited
Chat Frontier Boosts
Premium includes recommended access to Grok 4.6, Gemini 3.1 Pro, and Claude Sonnet 5. Laureate adds the remaining Frontier catalog plus 20 Frontier creations and 20 Frontier Chat responses each week; Auto uses Claude Opus 5 while boosts remain and GPT 5.6 Luna afterward.
- Free
- —
- Premium
- —
- Laureate
- 20/week
AI creations
AI creations are used for AI Flashcards, deck edits, AI Podcasts, AI Video Lectures, AI Slides, worksheets, AI Infographics, mind maps, study guides, spreadsheets, story books, timelines, SOPs, flowcharts, lesson plans, outlines, AI Meeting Notes, and Deep Research reports.
- Free
- 1 total
- Premium
- 10/week
- Laureate
- 75/week
Creation Frontier Boosts
Frontier Boost on makes Auto (Laureate) use Claude Opus 5; off uses GPT 5.6 Luna. Laureate includes 20 boosts within its 75 weekly creations. Flashcards never spend a boost.
- Free
- —
- Premium
- —
- Laureate
- 20/week · included
Video lectures
- Free
- Uses AI creations
- Premium
- Included in 10/week
- Laureate
- Included in 75/week
File uploads
- Free
- 1 total (8MB)
- Premium
- Unlimited (300MB)
- Laureate
- Unlimited (1 GB each)
PDF to flashcards
- Free
- 32 pages
- Premium
- 1000 pages
- Laureate
- 3000 pages
Practice questions
- Free
- 5/day
- Premium
- Unlimited
- Laureate
- Unlimited
Practice exams
- Free
- 1/day
- Premium
- Unlimited
- Laureate
- Unlimited
Voice mode
- Free
- 15 min/day
- Premium
- 2 hr/day
- Laureate
- 12 hr/day
Autocomplete
- Free
- 500 words/day
- Premium
- Unlimited
- Laureate
- Unlimited
Export to Anki
- Free
- —
- Premium
- Included
- Laureate
- Included
Support
- Free
- Standard
- Premium
- Priority
- Laureate
- Priority
What customers say
Scholarly has enhanced the quality of notes and questions I administer to my tutees. Insightful, to the point.
TD Georgas
Tutor
I have very good experience with Scholarly it summarize me scientific text in hovel academic level with citation. I use this for any therapeutic area . It is great and useful tool.
Diana
Scholarly user
Scholarly has been a valuable tool for my studies. The AI-generated flashcards and intuitive features make organizing and retaining information much easier.
Briana
Scholarly user
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
Scholarly user
Your questions, answered
Is Scholarly free to use?
Yes! The free plan includes core study tools with clear limits: 3 AI Chat messages per day, one free AI creation total, 1 free file upload total, quizzes, practice exams, and manual flashcard creation. Upgrade to Premium for 10 AI creations per week and unlimited uploads.
What uses my free AI creations?
Generating flashcards, improving a flashcard deck, making a podcast, creating a video lecture or infographic, building slides, a spreadsheet, or a story book, making a mind map, study guide, or worksheet, having an AI Agent create a timeline, SOP, flowchart, lesson plan, or outline, running Deep Research, or processing a recording uses your free AI creation. It is a lifetime free credit and does not reset. AI Chat messages, quizzes, and exams still have separate daily limits; free file uploads are also lifetime credits.
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.
Can I use Scholarly with a class or school?
Yes. For a school or organization-wide rollout, contact us at hello@scholarly.so and we'll help you find the right setup.
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 actions. Free AI creations and the free upload are lifetime credits and do not reset. Premium includes 10 AI creations per week and unlimited uploads.