The AI workspace built for serious research
Bring your papers, PDFs, and AI Meeting Notes into one place. Ask real questions, get citation-backed answers grounded in your sources, and turn weeks of reading into understanding you can build on.
Free to start · No credit card required
How Researchers Use Scholarly
Survey a literature in days, not months
Upload a folder of papers and ask questions across all of them at once. Compare methods, findings, and limitations without re-reading every PDF from the start.
Get answers you can verify
Every answer is grounded in your sources and cites where it came from, so you can jump to the exact passage and check the claim before you rely on it.
Capture talks, seminars, and interviews
Record a seminar or upload interview audio. Scholarly transcribes it, summarizes the key points, and makes the whole recording searchable and quotable.
Listen to papers on the go
Turn dense papers into clear, conversational audio overviews — keep moving through your reading list on the commute or between experiments.
Features That Matter for Research
Deep Research
Ask a real research question and get a structured, cited write-up built from actual sources — then push back, go deeper, and refine it.
Chat across multiple PDFs
Question a single 300-page document or your whole reading list at once, with citation-backed answers that point at the source.
Concept maps
See how the ideas in a paper or an entire field connect. Generate concept maps from your material to spot gaps and relationships.
Grounded drafting
Draft notes, summaries, and sections with AI that has read your sources — structured, cited, and yours to edit in the same workspace.
How It Works
Upload your sources
PDFs, papers, web pages, audio, and video — bring everything for a project into one workspace.
Ask and explore
Chat with your sources, run deep research, and get grounded answers with citations you can verify.
Synthesize and share
Turn what you learned into notes, summaries, slides, or an audio overview — without leaving your sources behind.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do the answers cite real sources?
Yes. When you chat with your documents, answers are grounded in the files you uploaded and cite the passages they came from, so you can open the source and verify every claim. Deep Research reads and cites real external sources the same way.
Can I ask questions across many papers at once?
Yes. You can chat with a single paper or select multiple documents and ask comparative questions across all of them — useful for literature reviews, related-work sections, and checking how findings differ between studies.
How does it handle very long documents?
Scholarly is built for long material — 300-page PDFs, dissertations, and full conference proceedings. Upload the document and ask questions, request summaries, or generate an audio overview without splitting the file yourself.
Is my unpublished research private?
Your uploads are private to your account and are not shared with other users. You stay in control of your library and can delete your materials at any time.
Keep exploring
Tools that pair well
Build a complete research stack with these tools.
Research Paper Analyzer
Break down methods, findings, and limitations.
Research Paper Summarizer
Dense papers to clear summaries.
PDF Summarizer
Key points from any long PDF.
Citation Generator
Clean citations in any style.
Concept Map Generator
Map how ideas in a field connect.
Mind Map Generator
Visualize a topic at a glance.
Website Summarizer
Summarize articles and web sources.
YouTube Summarizer
Talks and lectures to key takeaways.
Audio to Notes
Interviews and seminars to clean notes.
Academic Writing Coach
Sharpen drafts and arguments.
PDF to Podcast
Listen to papers on the go.
Lecture Transcription
Accurate transcripts from any talk.
Scholarly for Teams
One plan for your whole lab — shared papers and protocols, every feature unlocked for every member.
Ready to Get Through Your Reading List?
Join researchers who turn piles of papers into grounded, citable understanding.
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.