Scholarcy vs SummarizeDocs

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.

SummarizeDocs turns documents and pasted text into summaries in key-point, paragraph, or one-line form. It accepts PDFs, Word documents, PowerPoint files, Excel, Markdown, JSON, and pasted text, with short, medium, or long output lengths. The site says PDF text extraction happens in the browser before the text is sent to a model for summary generation. It also says original documents are not stored and guest and free summaries are never stored. Anonymous visitors have two lifetime uses tracked by cookie. An email-verified free account gets 10 credits, with 10 more available through an invite code. Credit use varies with document length. The free tier has a 10K-character maximum; Pro and credit-pack tiers have a 50K-character maximum, with those limits applying at general availability. Pro and some credit packs include DOCX or PDF export. The Free plan is free. A 100-credit pack costs $4.99, paid once; Pro monthly costs $9.99 a month, and Pro yearly costs $79 a year. The service is web-based and lists researchers, founders, recruiters, lawyers, students, analysts, and busy readers among its intended users.