SciSummary vs Paper Digest vs Genei vs Paperguide
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
SciSummary
Forward a PDF, get a plain-language paper summary back
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PD Paper Digest AI summaries of academic papers and trial protocols Visit |
Genei
AI research summarizer with team collaboration
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Paperguide
AI research assistant with semantic paper search
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| RECATOOLS Score | 5.5 / 10 | 6.2 / 10 | 5.4 / 10 | 6.8 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Subscription | Subscription | Freemium |
| Free tier | — | — | — | — |
| Paid from | — | — | — | — |
| Has API | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Users | — | — | — | — |
| Founded | — | 2018 | 2019 | 2023 |
| Maker | — | — | — | — |
| Verdict | SciSummary's hook is friction: email a PDF and a summary lands back in your inbox, no dashboard required. At $6.99/month (or $34.99/year) after a 7-day trial, it's cheap enough to use as a triage filter — decide whether... |
Paper Digest is an AI tool that generates concise summaries of scientific papers, daily literature feeds and review-style digests, helping researchers triage large volumes of reading quickly. Coverage is broad and the su... |
Genei is a lightweight, affordable summarisation and note-taking tool aimed at students and academics, pulling key points from articles and papers, extracting keywords and helping build reference lists. Pricing from arou... |
Paperguide bundles AI literature search, citation-backed answers, a reference manager and an academic writing assistant over a large paper database, putting several research workflows in one tool. The free tier is unusua... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.