Elicit (Scholarcy)
Turns papers into structured flashcards: findings, methods, refs.
Overview
Scholarcy turns PDFs and web articles into structured summaries — key findings, methods, tables, and a pulled reference list — via its web app or Chrome/Firefox extension. Acquired by UK accessibility firm Everway (formerly Texthelp) in October 2024; syncs with Zotero and Mendeley.
Pricing
Pricing shown for reference only. These figures reflect RECATOOLS research as of 11 Jul 2026 and may be out of date or incomplete. This is not financial or purchasing advice — always confirm the current price on the provider’s official website before making any decision.
- ~5 articles/day cap
- Flashcard save
- Basic summary
- Unlimited summaries
- Flashcard library
- Zotero/Mendeley sync
- One-click bibliography
- Unlimited seats
- Admin controls
- Priority support
- 1,000 calls/mo entry tier
- JSON output
- Research-paper optimized
Use cases
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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-used entry point, sitting around 4.3-4.7 stars, though the free tier caps you at roughly five articles a day and a post-update release brought server timeouts some reviewers had to fix by reloading. One user reported a presentation export that came back full of stray code, which the extension's own listing addresses as a known bug, not malware. Everway (formerly Texthelp) bought Scholarcy in October 2024; the product kept running under the new owner. Plus runs $9.99/mo for unlimited summaries and a literature matrix; institutions and API users pay separately. It's a genuine time-saver for triage, not a discovery engine — pair it with Zotero or Mendeley rather than expecting it to replace either.
What people say
Despite the name attached to this listing, Scholarcy has nothing to do with Elicit — that's a separate research-assistant product built by Ought. Scholarcy's job is narrower and more mechanical: feed it a PDF or web article and it returns a structured summary of findings, methods, and figures, plus a pulled reference list, saved as a 'flashcard' in your own library.
The company changed hands in October 2024, acquired by UK accessibility firm Texthelp, since rebranded Everway. The product kept running under the new owner with no visible disruption. Its Chrome extension is the most-used entry point and sits around 4.3 to 4.7 stars depending on the store, with one reviewer calling it precise enough to beat 'all the AI tools I have used so far.' Complaints cluster around a free-tier cap of roughly five articles a day, occasional connection errors that clear on refresh, and a presentation-export bug one user mistook for malware.
Paid access runs $9.99 a month for unlimited summaries and a literature matrix; institutions and API customers negotiate separately, with published institutional licensing starting around $8,000 a year. Zotero and Mendeley both sync with it, which matters more than the AI itself for anyone trying to fold Scholarcy into an existing workflow. It's a genuine time-saver for triage reading — not a discovery engine, and summaries still need a check against the source before you cite anything from them.
Summary of public user & expert reviews, compiled by RECATOOLS.
Notable facts
- Scholarcy can process a 30-page academic paper and extract the core findings in under 60 seconds — faster than most researchers can read the abstract.
- The tool's reference extraction feature has identified over 100 million academic references across processed papers, building one of the largest citation datasets outside of commercial databases.
- Scholarcy was the first tool to apply extractive AI summarisation specifically to academic papers rather than general text.
Frequently asked questions
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