Sharpen every essay with an AI writing coach
Improve your academic writing with AI-powered feedback. Get suggestions on structure, clarity, arguments, and citations to elevate your essays and papers.
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Submit Your Writing
Paste your academic writing below to receive comprehensive feedback and suggestions.
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From draft to polished in three steps
Paste your writing, let the AI read it like a tutor, and act on clear, specific suggestions.
Step 1: Submit Writing
Paste your essay, research paper, or any academic writing for comprehensive feedback.
Step 2: AI Analyzes
Our AI evaluates your writing for clarity, coherence, academic tone, and argument strength.
Step 3: Improve Writing
Apply detailed suggestions to make your academic writing clearer and easier to revise.
Feedback that actually improves your grade
Every report breaks down the parts of academic writing that markers care about most.
Structure analysis
See whether your introduction, body, and conclusion flow logically and where the argument loses the reader.
Clarity suggestions
Spot wordy sentences, vague phrasing, and passive constructions, with concrete rewrites you can apply.
Argument strength
Find claims that need stronger evidence and reasoning gaps that weaken your thesis.
Citation checks
Surface places that need a source and catch quotes or data presented without support.
Academic tone
Keep your voice formal and precise without sounding stiff or losing your own ideas.
A clear next step
Walk away with a prioritized list of edits so you always know what to fix first.
Better writing comes from better feedback
Most students get a grade and a few margin notes long after the deadline has passed. By then it is too late to act on them. An AI writing coach reverses that: you get detailed, actionable feedback while you can still revise.
Scholarly reads your draft the way a thoughtful tutor would, weighing structure, clarity, the strength of your argument, and how well your sources back up your claims. Instead of generic tips, you get specific notes tied to your own sentences.
Use it as a coach, not a crutch. The goal is to understand why a passage is weak so you write it better next time, not just patch this one assignment. Stronger habits compound across every essay, paper, and thesis you write.
Frequently asked questions
How does the academic writing coach work?
Simply paste your academic writing into Scholarly. Our AI will analyze it for structure, clarity, arguments, and citations, providing detailed feedback to help you improve.
What types of writing can I get feedback on?
Our tool works for essays, research papers, theses, literature reviews, lab reports, and other academic writing types. You can specify the type for more targeted feedback.
Is the academic writing coach free to use?
Yes. You can analyze your writing for free with no account required. Sign up free to get unlimited feedback, save your reports, and track how your writing improves over time.
Will it write my essay for me?
No. Scholarly is a coach, not a ghostwriter. It points out what is working and what is not so you can revise your own ideas, learn the underlying skills, and keep your academic integrity intact.
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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.
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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.
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Tutor
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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.