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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 interactive flashcards with context-aware summaries of complex scholarly articles.
- It differs from SMMRY with more advanced features like full-text exploration, note-taking capabilities, and library organization for systematic research.
- It supports PDF, Word, PowerPoint, HTML, XML, and LaTeX and works with reference management tools like Zotero.
- Scholarcy is ideal for in-depth academic research, literature reviews, and managing large volumes of complex scholarly content.
SMMRY
SMMRY“Quick Text Simplification” 📄✂️
- SMMRY is a simple, algorithm-based text reduction tool that extracts key sentences to create quick summaries of articles or documents.
- It offers basic customization options like summary length control, keyword focusing, and a heat map visualization of sentence importance.
- It works only with raw text and PDF formats.
- SMMRY is best suited for quick, topic-focused summaries of shorter texts or articles — ideal for casual research or getting a quick content overview.
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 SMMRY, you import your academic paper into Scholarcy in TXT format or by uploading a PDF.
Scholarcy supports many more formats and allows you to get papers directly from journal sites and supports
- PDFs
- DOCX
- URLs
- Zotero
Step 2
Get a summary
SMMRY generates a summary that can be up to 40 sentences long.
Scholarcy generates easy-to-digest Summary Flashcards: highlighting:
- key points
- citations
- research quality
- research comparison
- visual elements
- references
Step 3
Get the benefits
SMMRY only helps you surface keyword-specific topics from your text.
Scholarcy also surfaces the key insights, helps you understand how the paper compares to others and past results as well as
- export structured data
- see figures
- explore text efficiently
- and 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?
Say goodbye to endless hours of skim reading to find key insights and hello to efficient, insightful research.
🔎 Get In-depth Summaries
Get the comprehensive analysis you need for cutting-edge research.
Get comprehensive article analysis with customizable summary depth.
Scholarcy
Scholarcy generates summary flashcards that highlight academic paper concepts, such as methods, results, key findings, key concepts, research quality analysis, and more. This approach is ideal for gaining a thorough understanding of complex academic papers and lengthy documents.
SMMRY
Provides quick, keyword-focused summaries best suited for shorter texts and rapid overviews. Its summary length maxes out at 40 sentences, limiting its effectiveness for in-depth analysis.
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.
🔎 Choose File Format Versatility
Work with all the file formats you use in your academic workflows.
Choose a tool that supports an extensive range of file formats, for seamless productivity.
- PDF, Word, PowerPoint, and TXT
- HTML and XML
- LaTex, Zotero and other reference managers
Scholarcy
With Scholarcy, you can work across multiple formats. That’s not all! Scholarcy comes with a browser extension that allows for one-click summarization on academic and journal sites to get instant insights — streamlining your research process even further!
SMMRY
Has limited input options. It works with plain text and PDF which doesn’t cover the full spectrum of what an academic encounters in their work.
🔎 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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🔎 A Modern User Experience
Opt for an intuitive interface that enhances your productivity.
Use a modern, intuitive tool, with an interface designed for academic and professional use.
Scholarcy
Scholarcy's user-friendly and visually appealing interface enhances the overall research experience. Its thoughtful design caters to the needs of researchers, students, and professionals to help make complex tasks more enjoyable.
SMMRY
Outdated interface feels limiting. Its design is straightforward but lacks visual appeal.
🔎 Advanced Research Toolkit
Equip yourself with tools beyond basic summaries for in-depth research.
Instead, opt for a comprehensive suite of research tools to elevate your work.
Scholarcy
Scholarcy equips you with note-taking capabilities, library organization and sharing features, efficient full-text exploration via the "Important Points" feature, Research Comparison to search for related works, and much more. You can also integrate it with Zotero for seamless academic reference management.
SMMRY
Offers basic summarization features with limited research utility. You get a heat map to visualize sentence importance and a keyword-surfacing tool but that’s it.
📊 Integrations for Any Academic Workflow
Pick a summarization tool that fits into your existing academic workflow.
Pick a tool with academic tool integration capabilities that fits smoothly into your research workflow.
Scholarcy
Scholarcy integrates with Zotero for reference management and syncs across devices with web and native apps (Android, iOS, Mac, Windows) — ensuring your research is always at your fingertips, no matter where you are or what device you're using.
SMMRY
Offers an API for custom integration into other apps but doesn’t come with any native academic or professional tool integrations.
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.
Help any academic with in-depth understanding
Our mission is to make your academic research more accessible, efficient, and insightful at every stage of your career.
Students
Struggling to read through complex reading material in time and properly cite it in your work.
PhD Candidate
Grappling with information overload and staying current in your rapidly evolving field.
Researcher
Professional
Finding time between your work responsibilities to keep up with cutting-edge literature.
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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!"
Have more questions?
Which tool is better for academic research, Scholarcy or SMMRY?
Scholarcy is better suited for academic research due to its comprehensive features tailored for analyzing scholarly articles, including flashcard summaries, reference management integration, and in-depth analysis of methods and results.
Are SMMRY and Scholarcy free to use?
Both SMMRY and Scholarcy offer free options. SMMRY is completely free to use. Scholarcy's core Article Summarizer and browser extension are free with an account. Scholarcy's advanced features like library organization and sharing require a paid subscription.
How do the summarization techniques differ between SMMRY and Scholarcy?
SMMRY uses a simpler algorithm to extract key sentences, while Scholarcy employs AI, trained on academic literature, to create more context-aware summaries, including separate sections for methods, results, and conclusions.
Which tool handles a wider range of document formats?
Scholarcy supports a broader range of formats including PDF, Word, PowerPoint, HTML, XML, and LaTeX, while SMMRY only works with raw text and PDF.
How do SMMRY and Scholarcy compare in terms of user interface and ease of use?
Yes, Scholarcy integrates seamlessly with popular reference management tools like Mendeley, Zotero, and EndNote. You can easily export citations and bibliographic information in various formats (BibTeX, RIS, etc.) for use in your preferred reference manager.SMMRY offers an outdated and straightforward interface for quick summarization, while Scholarcy provides a modern, feature-rich interface with additional tools for library organization and note-taking.