AskSia vs Scholarcy

AskSia solves homework problems in math, science, engineering, business, and computer science, with step-by-step explanations. Students can type, paste, photograph, or speak a problem, and the solver supports LaTeX input. Its Solver page lists more than 184 topic-specific solvers. After a solution, students can ask for alternate methods, practice problems, and flashcards. The service is available on Android, iOS, the web, as a Chrome extension, and on macOS and Windows. The web app lists exports to PDF, DOCX, Notion, and Google Docs. The extension lists integrations with Canvas, Blackboard, Brightspace, Moodle, Everytime, CyberCampus, Echo360, and Panopto; it is read-only and does not share the user's LMS password with AskSia. The free plan at free includes daily problem solves, step-by-step solutions, and photo input. AskSia says it is intended for high school students and students in their first two years of university. Its agreement prohibits cheating or plagiarism and advises against use during tests or exams.

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.