Turn a topic into a ready-to-teach lesson plan in minutes
Give Scholarly a chapter, a set of standards, or just a topic and get objectives, timed activities, materials, and a way to check for understanding — built entirely from your own material.
Free to start · No credit card required
Photosynthesis: Turning Light Into Energy
- Explain how plants convert light, water, and CO₂ into glucose.
- Identify the roles of chlorophyll and the chloroplast.
- Compare the light-dependent and light-independent reactions.
- Warm-up5 min
- Direct instruction15 min
- Guided practice20 min
From source to lesson plan in three steps
No blank templates, no formatting. Add your material and the AI drafts the plan.
Add your sources
Upload a chapter, standards, or slides, pick a file from your library, paste a link, or just type a topic and grade level.
The agent plans the lesson
Scholarly reads your material and drafts learning objectives, a timed sequence of activities, materials, and a check for understanding.
Teach, download, or share
Get a clean lesson plan PDF you can teach from, download to print, share with a co-teacher, or turn into a quiz or worksheet.
A lesson plan you can walk into class with
Grounded in your own material, structured the way a teacher actually plans — objectives, timing, and assessment included.
Clear learning objectives
Every plan opens with focused, measurable objectives tied to what your source material actually covers.
Timed activity sequence
A warm-up, direct instruction, and practice — each with a suggested time chip so the lesson fits your period.
Built from your material
The plan comes from the chapter, standards, or notes you add — not the open internet — so it matches what you're teaching.
Polished, themed PDF
Every lesson plan is professionally typeset. Pick from four themes — Professional, Academic, Modern, or Playful — then download, print, or share it by link.
More teaching tools, one source
Turn the same material into a quiz, a worksheet, flashcards, or a study guide for your students without re-uploading.
Any subject or grade
Elementary read-alouds, high-school science, tutoring sessions, TA sections — anything you need to plan and teach.
The planning is done, so you can focus on teaching
Building a lesson from scratch — objectives, timing, activities, an assessment — takes an evening you don't always have. Starting from a solid draft turns that into a quick edit.
Scholarly's lesson plan is an AI agent: it reads your actual chapter or standards, drafts objectives and a paced sequence of activities, and adds a way to check for understanding — a real starting point, not a blank template.
Because it's grounded in your own material, the plan reflects what you're actually teaching. Adjust the timing, swap an activity, then generate a matching quiz or worksheet from the same source so your students practice exactly what you taught.
Common questions
What can I make a lesson plan from?
Uploaded PDFs, Word docs, and PowerPoints; files already in your library; Google Drive files; a website or PDF link; or just a typed topic and grade level. You can mix several sources in one plan.
Who is this for?
Teachers, tutors, and TAs planning a class or session. It works for any subject or grade — describe your class and the plan adapts to it.
Can I edit and print the lesson plan?
Yes. Every plan is a PDF you can download, print, or share with a link, and it lands in your library like any other file so you can adjust and regenerate it.
Is it free?
You can create lesson plans on the free plan using your shared lifetime AI creation credit, which does not reset. Paid plans raise those limits and support longer source documents.
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AI Agents
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AI Quiz Generator
Check understanding with a quick assessment.
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Create lesson plans and every other teaching tool from your own material. Free to start, no credit card required.
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
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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.