Scholarcy vs Silvi

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.

Silvi is a web tool for organizing scientific literature into structured evidence. Its review workflow covers collecting studies, screening them, extracting data and analyzing results, including systematic reviews, meta-analyses and network meta-analyses. Reviewers can include or exclude studies individually or in bulk, with AI screening suggestions available. Data extraction can use PDF text highlights, which Silvi stores alongside the extracted information, or AI; users can check and correct AI results. Extracted data can be organized in tables, plotted and exported. Teams can assign tasks, require multiple reviewers and blind decisions. Silvi lists imports from PubMed, OpenAlex, Web of Science, ERIC, Zotero, Mendeley and EndNote. Its Web of Science RIS workflow allows up to 1,000 records per export. Open-access papers can be retrieved automatically; paywalled papers must be obtained through a university library. Plans include a free option and paid options from €19/mo.