# Scholarcy

> Summarizes research papers into interactive flashcards

Scholarcy is a summarizer for research papers, book chapters and other long documents. It turns each one into an interactive summary flashcard with key concepts, highlights, a structured summary and a comparison with earlier research, and saves the flashcards to a searchable library. Browser extensions for Chrome, Edge and Firefox summarize articles as you browse, and flashcards export to Word, Excel, Markdown and reference managers.

- **Category:** AI Research Tools
- **Made by:** Scholarcy Limited
- **Website:** https://www.scholarcy.com
- **Runs on:** Web, Browser extension
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 5, 2026

## Pricing

Scholarcy has a free plan. Paid plans start at $90 per year, or $9.99 per month billed monthly.

- **Pricing model:** Free plan
- **Free plan:** Free Article Summarizer: the pricing page lists a limit of 10 summaries with flashcards exported one at a time, and its FAQ gives the limit as 1 summary per day.
- **Free trial:** 7-day free trial of the paid plan; billing starts afterward unless you cancel first.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Free Article Summarizer | $0 | Imports a range of file formats, with a limit of 10 summaries and flashcards exported one at a time. |
| Scholarcy Plus | $9.99 per month, billed monthly; $90 billed yearly | Unlimited and enhanced summaries, a saved flashcard library with notes and highlights, export of up to 100 flashcards at once and literature matrices. |

Scholarcy's own pricing page could not be read; these figures come from https://web.archive.org/web/20260402184946/https://library.scholarcy.com/x/pricing on Oct 5, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Scholarcy before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **25% off with yearly billing** (Annual discount): The archived pricing page labels the yearly Scholarcy Plus plan with a 25% discount: $90 a year against $9.99 a month. Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20260326213245/https://www.scholarcy.com/pricing

## Key features

- **Summary flashcards:** Each imported document becomes a structured flashcard with key concepts, highlights, a summary and a sidebar of important points that jump to the relevant section.
- **Enhance modes:** A summary can be rewritten in seven styles, among them school level, general reader, undergrad level, researcher, a bulleted list, a one-liner or around your own question.
- **Research comparison:** Shows how a study differs from, builds on, confirms or counters earlier research. References carry Scite data on how often a cited paper has been supported or disputed.
- **Tables, figures and references:** Extracts figures with their captions, downloads a paper's tables as one Excel file, and exports the reference list as RIS or BibTeX for a reference manager.
- **Import and browser extensions:** Takes PDF, Word, PowerPoint, HTML, XML, LaTeX and text files, article and YouTube URLs, and imports from Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive and Zotero. Extensions summarize the page you have open.
- **Export and literature matrix:** Flashcards export to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, RIS and Markdown for Obsidian, Roam and Notion. Several flashcards can be combined into a literature matrix or one bibliography.

## Good for

- Screening a stack of papers before deciding which to read in full
- Students who want a paper explained at a simpler reading level
- Building a literature matrix or bibliography from many papers

## Worth knowing

- Scholarcy's site turned automated readers away, so prices come from Internet Archive copies of its price data (April 2026) and pricing page (March 2026).
- The free Article Summarizer is limited to 10 summaries on the pricing page and 1 summary per day in its FAQ.
- Free accounts can import files of up to 11 MB; a subscription raises the limit to 50 MB.
- The synopsis and enhanced summaries are written in English even when the source is in another language.

## Works with

Zotero, Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, Notion, Obsidian, Hypothes.is, Scite

**Tags:** Research, Citations, AI features

## Alternatives

- [SciSpace](https://toolgpa.com/tools/scispace): AI research platform for literature review and reading papers. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/scholarcy-vs-scispace)
- [ChatPDF](https://toolgpa.com/tools/chatpdf): Ask questions about PDFs and get answers with citations. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/chatpdf-vs-scholarcy)
- [Paperguide](https://toolgpa.com/tools/paperguide): AI research platform for literature and systematic reviews. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/paperguide-vs-scholarcy)
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## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 5, 2026:

- https://web.archive.org/web/20260402184946/https://library.scholarcy.com/x/pricing
- https://web.archive.org/web/20260326213245/https://www.scholarcy.com/pricing
- https://web.archive.org/web/20260508130320/https://www.scholarcy.com/faq
- https://web.archive.org/web/20260918201012/https://www.scholarcy.com/
- https://help.scholarcy.com/
- https://help.scholarcy.com/guide/import
- https://help.scholarcy.com/guide/supercharge-your-reading
- https://help.scholarcy.com/guide/assimilate-and-analyse
- https://help.scholarcy.com/guide/export
- https://help.scholarcy.com/guide/organise-and-customise
- https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/scholarcy-browser-extensi/oekgknkmgmaehhpegfeioenikocgbcib

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