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 browser extension. It joined UK accessibility firm Texthelp, now Everway, in November 2024, and imports from Zotero.
Pricing
Pricing shown for reference only. These figures reflect RECATOOLS research as of 28 Sep 2026 and may be out of date or incomplete.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.
- Flashcard save
- Basic summary
- Unlimited summaries
- Flashcard library
- Zotero import
- Unlimited seats
- Admin controls
- Metadata extraction
- JSON output
Use cases
What you can produce with Scholarcy
- Turn a PDF or web article into a structured summary of findings, methods and tables
- Pull a paper's reference list out as a usable list rather than retyping citations
- Work from the browser extension on Chrome or Firefox while you read
- Build flashcard-style notes from a paper for revision or a reading group
- Buy it from Everway, the UK accessibility firm formerly called Texthelp, which acquired it
- Reach for a citation-graph tool instead when you need discovery rather than summarising
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, at 4.0 stars from 39 ratings, and the free tier is tight: the pricing page gives both a 10-summary limit and a one-a-day cap. Everway (formerly Texthelp) acquired Scholarcy in November 2024 and has kept developing it, adding a chat mode in 2026. Scholarcy Plus unlocks unlimited summaries at prices localised by country — SGD 13.99 a month from Singapore — while institutions and API users contract separately. It's a genuine time-saver for triage, not a discovery engine — pair it with Zotero rather than expecting it to replace a reference manager.
What we found
Scholarcy's job is narrow and 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 November 2024, joining the UK accessibility firm Texthelp, which rebranded as Everway in January 2025. The product kept running under the new owner with no visible disruption. Its Chrome extension is the most-used entry point, with 80,000 users and 4.0 stars from 39 ratings, with one reviewer calling it precise enough to beat 'all the AI tools I have used so far.' Complaints cluster around a tight free tier — Scholarcy's own pricing page says both "limit of 10 summaries" and one summary a day — occasional connection errors that clear on refresh, and a presentation-export bug one user mistook for malware.
Paid access is Scholarcy Plus, which read from Singapore costs SGD 13.99 a month or SGD 120 a year after a seven-day trial, with prices localised by country; institutions and API customers negotiate by contract, with nothing published. Zotero import is supported, 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.
Under Everway the product is still being developed: a May 2026 update added a full-screen "Dig Deeper" chat mode and the option to export highlights alongside summaries, though Scholarcy's own blog has been silent since March 2025.
Compiled by RECATOOLS from public sources: vendor documentation and pricing, code repositories and published reporting.
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
About this listing
This entry was compiled from publicly available data including Scholarcy's official website, press releases, documentation, and reputable third-party publications. RECATOOLS is not affiliated with Scholarcy unless explicitly stated.
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