Scholarcy
AI-powered summarizer that converts academic papers, articles, and textbooks into interactive flashcards for efficient research.
FreemiumEducation & Learning
AI-powered summarizer that converts academic papers, articles, and textbooks into interactive flashcards for efficient research.
- Pricing
- Freemium
- Best for
- masters students
AI-powered summarizer that converts academic papers, articles, and textbooks into interactive flashcards for efficient research.
About Scholarcy
Scholarcy is an AI tool for summarizing and analyzing academic documents, helping users extract key facts from complex texts without full reading. It generates flashcards with highlights, figures, and customizable summaries, supports imports from Zotero and browser extensions for quick screening. Users can organize collections, annotate, and export to Excel for literature matrices or Markdown for apps like Obsidian and Notion.
Key Features
Import from Zotero, Google Drive, and various file formats
Browser extensions for Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari
AI-enhanced summaries with customizable reading styles and lengths
Research Quality Indicator and comparisons with cited studies
Highlight text, take notes, and extract figures/tables
Export up to 100 flashcards to Excel, Markdown, or bibliographies
summarize non-English articles in most European languages
export up to 100 flashcards at a time in various formats
import papers from Zotero
export references from flashcards
generate plain language summary (Synopsis)
Best For & Use Cases
Best for
- • masters students
- • researchers
- • academics
Common use cases
- • Screen papers during literature searches
- • Create literature synthesis matrices in Excel
- • Organize research into searchable flashcard libraries
- • Generate annotated bibliographies
- • Synthesize insights by exporting to knowledge managers like Roam, Obsidian, Notion
Pricing
Scholarcy Pricing
Compare the public plan structure, billing cadence, and included capabilities at a glance.
Freemium3 public plans
Plan
Free Article Summarizer
$0
- Limit of 10 summaries
- Import a range of file formats
- Export flashcards (one at a time)
FAQ
With a free Scholarcy account, the file maximum size you can import is 11MB. This increases to 50MB with a premium subscription to Scholarcy.
You can export up to 100 flashcards at a time, in various formats.
You can import any papers you have saved in your Zotero library into your Scholarcy.
You can export the references from a single flashcard, or from multiple flashcards at once.
Not at this time. Scholarcy needs access to the text from an article to summarize it for you.
Scholarcy can summarize articles in most European languages.
Scholarcy is not a writing tool and cannot write your literature review for you.
Whilst Scholarcy is able to generate flashcards from videos, it was designed to work best on academic articles and book chapters.
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