Genei vs Scholarcy
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Genei
UK PDF and web-page summariser, still online but no longer maintained
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Scholarcy
Turns papers into structured flashcards: findings, methods, refs.
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| RECATOOLS Score | 5.4 / 10 | 6.3 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Subscription | Freemium |
| Free tier | Not offered — a 14-day free trial on each plan | Free plan capped — the pricing page says both 10 summaries and one a day |
| Paid from | £9.99/month (Basic) or £7.99/month billed annually, academic Basic from £3.99 | Scholarcy Plus from SGD 13.99 a month, priced by country |
| Has API | ✗ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✓ |
| Users | — | 1m+ researchers |
| Founded | 2019 | 2018 |
| Maker | — | Everway (acquired October 2025) |
| Verdict | Genei was a promising early AI reader: Oxford-prize-winning, a Y Combinator Summer 2021 company, and genuinely useful to students who needed key points pulled out of dense papers. The core features, summaries, keywords,... |
Scholarcy does one job: feed it a paper and it hands back a structured summary — key findings, methods, tables, a pulled reference list — instead of you reading twenty pages to get there. The Chrome extension is the most... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.