How much does Scholarcy cost?
- Free plan
- Yes
- Free trial
- 7-day free trial of Scholarcy (1 week), cancel to avoid billing
In your favor
- No long-term contract. Monthly or annual subscription; cancel any time
- Unlimited usage on Scholarcy Plus. A flat price with no cap on usage.
- Free plan. Free Article Summarizer: import a range of file formats, limit of 10 summaries, export flashcards one at a time. Subscribe to Scholarcy for unlimited summaries.
How you buy and get started
- Sign up
- Self-serve signup at library.scholarcy.com "Start Free"
- Setup
- Not stated
- When sales steps in
- Not stated
- Support
- Email support "send us an email at support@scholarcy.com"
What Scholarcy does
Scholarcy converts uploaded or imported texts (PDFs, Word, web articles, YouTube and more) into structured summary flashcards that can be saved, annotated, organised and exported. It has a limited free summarizer and a single paid plan, Scholarcy Plus, billed monthly or yearly.
- Good for
- Students and researchers who need to skim, analyse and organise academic papers and reading lists.
- Channels
- Web app, Chrome browser extension
- Main product
- Scholarcy Library (flashcard summaries) and Article Summarizer
- Also includes
- Flashcard summaries, Enhanced summaries (single sentence to researcher-level), Spotlight key findings, Highlighting, notes and editing, Collections, Literature Matrix creation
- Connects to
- Zotero, Mendeley, EndNote, Obsidian, Notion, Google Drive, YouTube, RSS feeds, Scite.ai, LibKey, Google Scholar, OpenAlex
- Public API
- Yes
- MCP server
- Not stated
- PDF and document upload
PDFs
- Chat with documentsNot stated
- Multi-document summariesNot stated
- Source citationsNot stated
- Team workspace plansNot stated
- Integrations or API
Scholarcy seamlessly integrates with your favorite tools
- Adjustable summary length
Choose from a single sentence to a researcher level overview.
- Security and data privacy
Scholarcy encrypts data at rest and in transit for all of our customers.
The same 8 checks appear on every tool in AI summarizers. Each tick quotes the vendor's own site.
Security and your data
| Question | Their answer | Where it says so |
|---|---|---|
| Trains AI on your data? | Not stated | |
| HIPAA (signs a BAA) | Not stated | |
| SOC 2 | Not stated | |
| GDPR | UK GDPR / GDPR referenced in privacy policy | "General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)"privacy |
| CCPA | Not stated | |
| PCI | Not stated | |
| ISO 27001 | Not stated | |
| Single sign-on | Not stated | |
| Trust center | Not stated |
Security answers are the vendor's own claims, quoted. We don't audit them.
Every plan
| Plan | Monthly | Billed yearly | Included | Over the allowance | Where it says so |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scholarcy Plus/month | $9.99 | $7.50per month | Unlimited | – | "$9.99/month" "$90.00/year" |
| Free Article Summarizer | – | – | 10 summariesLimit of 10 summaries | – | "Limit of 10 summaries" |
Free plan: Free Article Summarizer: import a range of file formats, limit of 10 summaries, export flashcards one at a time. Subscribe to Scholarcy for unlimited summaries.
Fine print
- Billing increment
- Not stated
- Billed beyond usage
- Not stated
- Contract
- Monthly or annual subscription; cancel any time "Cancel at any time."
- Refunds
- Not stated
- Auto renew
- Billed each month after the trial "1 week free trial, then you'll be billed each month."
- Price change notice
- Not stated
"Not stated" means we read their pricing page and terms and they don't say.
About the company
- Address
- Lucas Exchange, 1 Orchard Way, Antrim, Antrim, BT41 2RU
- Online since
- Dec 5, 2017 Domain registration date
- Founder
- Phil Gooch, Founder & CEO
- Founder
- Emma Warren-Jones, Co-founder & COO
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Questions
Is Scholarcy free?
Yes. Free Article Summarizer: import a range of file formats, limit of 10 summaries, export flashcards one at a time. Subscribe to Scholarcy for unlimited summaries. Paid plans start at $9.99/month.
How much does Scholarcy cost?
Paid plans start at $7.50 per month billed yearly, or $9.99 billed monthly.