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Explainpaper vs Scholarcy

Explainpaper or Scholarcy? Their plans monthly and yearly, the capabilities their makers state, security and latest updates, side by side — read from the makers' own pages.

In short

  • Both: Summaries
  • Only Explainpaper states: Cites sources, Tutoring, Many languages
  • Only Scholarcy states: Reads PDFs, Extracts data, Quizzes and flashcards, Exports references

Explainpaper

AI reader for research papers that explains highlighted text, answers paper questions, and summarizes academic content.

Plans

Free

Free

  • Unlimited highlight explanations
  • Ask follow-up questions
  • Import your Zotero library
  • Powered by basic AI models

Pro

  • $16 / month
  • $12 / month
  • Explain math formulas and figures with Math Explain
  • Powered by advanced AI models
  • Generate summaries for the entire paper
  • Save your highlights and explanations
  • Ask questions about your paper

Prices checked 2026-09-25 on the maker’s page.

Capabilities

  • Cites sources — “Cite specific sections - Jump directly to relevant parts” source
  • Summaries — “Generate summaries for the entire paper” source
  • Tutoring — “Highlight confusing text and get instant, simple explanations.” source
  • Many languages — “50+ languages - Get explanations in your native language” source
About Explainpaper

Scholarcy

Scholarcy summarizes and analyzes academic papers, books, articles, videos, and other texts into structured flashcards.

Plans

Free Article Summarizer

Free

  • Import a range of file formats
  • Limit of 10 summaries
  • Export flashcards (one at a time)

Scholarcy Plus

  • $9.99/month
  • $90.00/year
  • Unlimited summarization
  • Generate enhanced summaries
  • Save your flashcards
  • Take notes, highlight and edit text
  • Organise flashcards into collections
  • Export up to 100 flashcards at once

Prices checked 2026-09-24 on the maker’s page.

Capabilities

  • Reads PDFs — “Import any file, from anywhere. Whether you're browsing articles online, have a chapter downloaded, or a folder of PDFs and Word docs.” source
  • Summaries — “Summarize any paper, text or article” source
  • Extracts data — “Export up to 100 Flashcards to Excel to easily compare key findings, results, study participants and more” source
  • Quizzes and flashcards — “Our Flashcards provide a structured, consistent format to read and explore any text from, whether you’re reading just one article or 20.” source
  • Exports references — “Export your flashcards to your favourite citation manager or generate a one-click, fully formatted bibliography in Word.” source
About Scholarcy