Aginsi vs Scholarcy

Aginsi is an AI research co-pilot that turns reading material into summaries with key passages highlighted. It accepts articles, academic papers, PDFs, long threads, reports, and video transcripts; summaries keep their references and show the amount of compression and estimated reading time saved. The free Margin plan costs nothing and includes 10 monthly summaries for articles and PDFs. Scholar costs $9 a month and adds unlimited summaries, a library with tags and search, Markdown and PDF export, and a browser companion. Faculty costs $29 a month and adds team seats, shared shelves, batch and API access, and priority support. The product is available through web, extension, and API. Aginsi says it discards submitted source documents and retains only summaries users choose to save. Source text is processed transiently and not used to train models. Users can request access to, correction of, export of, or deletion of account data and saved summaries by contacting [email protected]. The company describes itself as a small studio in Helsinki.

Scholarcy turns research material into interactive summary flashcards that highlight key information and provide context. It accepts research papers, PDFs, book chapters, online articles, plain text and YouTube videos. Users can add content by uploading or dropping files, entering a webpage URL, pasting text or using a browser extension. Enhanced summaries can be tailored to reading styles such as School level, General reader, Bulleted list, Undergrad level, One liner and Researcher. Research tools include cited-work findings, article prompts and questions, a Research Quality Indicator and comparisons with related research. Scholarcy imports directly from Zotero and exports referenced summaries to Markdown for tools including Roam, Obsidian and Notion. Extensions are offered for Chrome, Edge and Firefox; Safari is listed as coming soon. The free plan costs nothing and allows 10 summaries, with flashcards exported one at a time. Scanned PDFs without extractable text are unsupported unless OCR is run first, and URLs behind paywalls may not import. Scholarcy says customer data is encrypted at rest and in transit.