What is Scholarcy?
Scholarcy turns research papers and other documents into structured summary flashcards with highlights, key facts and extracted references. It runs as a web app (Scholarcy Library) plus browser extensions for Chrome, Edge and Firefox.
Who it's for
Scholarcy lists researchers, students and anyone who reads many academic articles as its audience, and it says it is aimed mainly at journal articles and single book chapters. The vendor says full textbooks give very short summaries for their length, so it suggests splitting them by chapter.
Pros & cons
Strengths
- Scholarcy lists imports from PDF, Word, Excel, plain text, URLs, YouTube, RSS feeds and Google Drive, plus reference files in BibTeX, RIS and NBIB formats.
- Its integrations page lists Zotero (import reading lists or collections, export results back, save from the extension), Mendeley and EndNote, with Notion, Obsidian and Markdown exports for notes.
- The paid plans list unlimited summarization, enhanced summaries, flashcard collections, notes and highlighting, Literature Matrix creation and one-click bibliographies.
- Scholarcy says it supports most European languages: highlights, summaries and full text stay in the original language, while the synopsis and enhanced summaries are rewritten in English.
- The FAQ says imported files are deleted after processing and are not shared, and that cancelling a subscription does not delete your saved summaries.
- The pricing page lists a one-week free trial of the paid plan, and the FAQ says institution and multi-user licenses are available by contacting the team.
Limitations
- The official pricing page is inconsistent on the free plan: the plan card says a limit of 10 summaries, while the FAQ says up to 1 summary per day.
- The official pricing page showed the paid prices only as placeholders ($/month and $/year), so the paid amounts could not be confirmed from the vendor.
- Third-party pages disagree on paid prices: one lists $9.99 a month with a yearly plan at a 25% discount, another lists $4.99 and $9.99 plans. Treat these as Reported.
- The FAQ says free accounts can import files up to 11MB and paid accounts up to 50MB, and that flashcards export up to 100 at a time.
- The vendor's pages that were read do not say whether customer content is used to train models, and no refund policy was found.
Plans and pricing
- Free Article Summarizer: $0. Imports several file formats and exports flashcards one at a time. Limit stated as 10 summaries on the pricing card and 1 summary per day in the FAQ; files up to 11MB.
- Monthly plan: Price not readable (Reported by a third party: $9.99 a month). One-week free trial, then billed monthly; cancel anytime. Unlimited summarization, enhanced summaries, saved flashcards, notes, collections, Literature Matrix, bibliographies; exports up to 100 flashcards at once.
- Scholarcy Plus (yearly): Price not readable, billed annually (25% discount shown). Same features as the monthly plan. Third-party pages give conflicting annual figures ($7.99 a month equivalent or $90 a year).
- Institution / multi-user: Contact sales. The FAQ says institution and multi-user licenses are available by contacting the team.
Plan names, features and the 25% yearly discount were read from the official pricing page and FAQ, but the paid dollar amounts were not shown in the text that could be read. Dollar figures here come from third-party summaries and may be out of date. Confirm on the live pricing page.
Details checked October 2026 against the vendor's own pages. Prices and limits change, so confirm before you buy. Official pricing page ↗
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Scholarcy — at a glance
Scholarcy turns research papers and other documents into structured summary flashcards with highlights, key facts and extracted references. It runs as a web app (Scholarcy Library) plus browser extensions for Chrome, Edge and Firefox.
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