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What are the main differences?
Scholarcy
“AI-Powered Academic Research” 📚🧠
- Scholarcy is a comprehensive AI-powered platform for academic paper analysis. It’s built to create context-aware, structured summaries of complex scholarly articles.
- It differs from QuillBot with more advanced features like research quality analysis, full-text exploration, and library organization for systematic research.
- It supports a wide range of formats including PDF, Word, PowerPoint, HTML, XML, and LaTeX, and integrates with reference management tools like Zotero.
- Scholarcy is ideal for conducting thorough literature reviews, managing large volumes of complex scholarly content, and facilitating in-depth academic research.
QuillBot
“Versatile Writing Assistance” ✍️📄
- QuillBot is a general-purpose writing assistant suite that offers basic summarization alongside other writing tools. It’s meant for improving clarity and fluency in general writing, rather than understanding.
- It provides simple text enhancement tools like summarizing, paraphrasing, and grammar checking, but lacks advanced academic-specific features.
- It works only with plain text, Word, and PDF formats.
- QuillBot is best suited for general writing tasks — ideal for casual writing improvement in your everyday assignments.
Scholarcy is easy to use!
It offers the same simple and fast process as SMMRY but produces better results.
Step 1
Get a paper
Like in QuillBot, you can import your academic paper into Scholarcy by pasting text or by uploading a PDF or Word doc.
Scholarcy supports many more formats and allows you to get papers directly from journal sites by pasting a URL or using its browser extension.
Step 2
Get a summary
QuillBot's free plan makes simple summaries from papers of up to 1,200 words, and the paid plan up to 6,000. Most academic papers are much longer.
Scholarcy takes any paper length and generates easy-to-digest structured summaries: highlighting key points, research quality, comparison findings, and more.
Step 3
Get the insights
QuillBot creates summaries by surfacing key points. It allows enhancing summaries by selecting focus keywords and paraphrasing.
Scholarcy also surfaces the key insights, helps you understand how the paper compares to others and past results, explore the full text more efficiently, see figures, export structured data, and much more.
Step 1
Get a paper
- PDFs
- DOCX
- URLs
- Zotero
Step 2
Get a summary
- key points
- citations
- research quality
- research comparison
- visual elements
- references
Step 3
Get the benefits
- compare research
- export data
- find exact insights
- save time on reading
Why choose Scholarcy over QuillBot?
Way more than simple paraphrasing — Scholarcy gives you a detailed overview and understanding of the whole paper.
🔎 Intelligent Summarization
Unlock the full potential of your research literature.
Scholarcy goes far beyond simple summarization. It comprehensively analyzes academic papers and orders them into structured summaries including key findings, objectives, methods, results, conclusions, and more
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Scholarcy compares the paper to related works and provides extractable table data, citations, and figures. This approach makes Scholarcy ideal for gaining a thorough understanding of complex research studies.
QuillBot
QuillBot creates customizable summaries but limits the length of imported text to 1,200 words on the free plan and 6,000 on the paid plan. It also lacks depth and academic-level insights, making it best for condensing and rewriting your everyday texts.
Save time with key insights
Turn full-length, complex academic papers into digestible “Flashcards” to find key insights without spending hours skim-reading.
Summarize multiple files at once
Scholarcy’s Article Summarizer is designed to help you understand scholarly literature. It’s trained to identify key elements like the article synopsis, tables, references, methods, results, and more — regardless of the paper’s length.
Generate concise summaries
Scholarcy generates concise summaries to help you quickly grasp the core arguments and discussions. It also highlights key information and related work for further reading or extra context.
🔎 Advanced Content Enhancement
Tailor summaries for deeper understanding, not just style.
- Scholarcy enhances summaries based on your academic level, from high school student to researcher
- It can completely adjust wording and structure, so everyone gets the most out of every summary.
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Scholarcy also adds Wikipedia links for context and features a "Dig Deeper" AI tool to answer specific questions about the text. More than simple rephrasing, this helps you truly grasp and interact with the material in ways that suit your path of understanding.
QuillBot
QuillBot provides basic paraphrasing options for summaries. You can adjust the writing style, synonym usage, and some grammatical preferences. While useful for quick rewrites, it's limited to surface-level changes.
🔎 Research Comparison
Make literature review faster & more efficient with Scholarcy’s automated research comparison
Scholarcy automatically finds related papers and highlights how they compare and differ.
Cross-Paper Insights
Scholarcy automatically finds related papers and highlights how they compare and differ — discover connections, contradictions, and trends across multiple research papers
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🔎 Versatile Import and Export Options
Work with all the file formats you use in your research process.
Scholarcy supports a wide array of import formats: PDF, Word, PowerPoint, HTML, XML, LaTeX, and more. Use the browser extension for one-click imports, or pull papers from URLs, DOIs, RSS feeds, and cloud storage.
Scholarcy
There's no word limit to hold you back. When it's time to share your work, export summaries in various formats including Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Markdown, RIS citations, and references. You can export a single summary or a whole library at once.
QuillBot
QuillBot has limited import options, accepting only PDF and Word files or pasted text, with word count restrictions. Exporting is confined to copy-pasting and DOCX format. So, to use it in your workflow, you'll need to use format converters and risk reducing the quality.
🔎 Modern User Experience
Enjoy an intuitive, integrated interface that goes along with your workflow.
Scholarcy's modern interface brings all your tools together on a single page: summaries, enhancements, citations, and advanced features.
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No more juggling between tools. Using other tools won’t slow you down either, because Scholarcy integrates well with common academic tools! With web app that works for Android, iOS, Mac, and Windows, your research syncs across all devices and goes with you anywhere you go.
QuillBot
QuillBot has an impractical interface that requires switching between tools for different tasks. Overall, its design feels outdated, resembling a simple text-based interface
Scholarcy is made for all academics
Our mission is to make your academic research more accessible, efficient, and insightful at any stage of your career.
Students
Struggling to read through complex reading materials and gaining in-depth understanding in time.
PhD Candidate
Grappling with information overload and spending precious time organizing many papers.
Research
Professional
Maintaining an organized body of sources for multiple projects and balancing research with other work responsibilities.
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What our users say
Discover how Scholarcy has made a difference in the lives of academics just like you.
Saiki K.
"It really helps to summarize any articles and gives you the key points."
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Mousad Rezaei
"The comparative study section is fantastic!"
Omar Ng.
“It would normally take me 15mins – 1 hour to skim read the article but with Scholarcy I can do that in 5 minutes.”
"It really helps to summarize any articles and gives you the key points."
Mousad Rezaei
"The comparative study section is fantastic!"
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