Scholarcy vs Connected Papers vs Papers

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Scholarcy
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Papers
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Suggested competitors for Scholarcy: SciSummary88% AI Summarizer80% Sourcely80% Semantic Scholar79% Explainpaper79% Scopus AI78% Consensus78% Wordtune Read78%
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Your tool Scholarcy
scholarcy.com
AI that reads papers so you can skim
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Competitor Connected Papers
connectedpapers.com
Visual tool for exploring related research
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Competitor Papers
papersapp.com
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
159Kvisits/mo
600.7Kvisits/mo
61.3Kvisits/mo
MoM change
▼ 17.1%
▼ 18.7%
▼ 9.7%
6-month growth
-44.5%
-34.0%
0.0%
Global rank web
#200,412
#76,429
#616,043
Avg. last 3 months
183.7K
709.4K
65K
Bounce rate lower is better
38%
44%
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Pages / visit
3.3
2.7
1.7
Visit duration
54s
2m 05s
42s
Traffic sources
● Direct 92% · ● Referral 5%
● Direct 74% · ● Referral 24%
● Direct 68% · ● Referral 31%
ScholarcyConnected PapersPapers
0241.5K483K724.5K966KScholarcy · 411.4KScholarcy · 312.2KScholarcy · 313.4KScholarcy · 279.1KScholarcy · 286.3KScholarcy · 328.9KScholarcy · 279.7KScholarcy · 200.4KScholarcy · 191.8KScholarcy · 159KConnected Papers · 966KConnected Papers · 779.7KConnected Papers · 839.4KConnected Papers · 823.6KConnected Papers · 910.1KConnected Papers · 948.5KConnected Papers · 872.6KConnected Papers · 788.3KConnected Papers · 739KConnected Papers · 600.7KPapers · 87KPapers · 82.4KPapers · 81.4KPapers · 61.3KPapers · 69.4KPapers · 61.5KPapers · 65.8KPapers · 67.9KPapers · 61.3K10K100K1MScholarcy · 411.4KScholarcy · 312.2KScholarcy · 313.4KScholarcy · 279.1KScholarcy · 286.3KScholarcy · 328.9KScholarcy · 279.7KScholarcy · 200.4KScholarcy · 191.8KScholarcy · 159KConnected Papers · 966KConnected Papers · 779.7KConnected Papers · 839.4KConnected Papers · 823.6KConnected Papers · 910.1KConnected Papers · 948.5KConnected Papers · 872.6KConnected Papers · 788.3KConnected Papers · 739KConnected Papers · 600.7KPapers · 87KPapers · 82.4KPapers · 81.4KPapers · 61.3KPapers · 69.4KPapers · 61.5KPapers · 65.8KPapers · 67.9KPapers · 61.3KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Freemium
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Starting price
$8.99per month · free tier available
$6per month · free tier available
$10per month
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Plans
Free Free
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Essentials $10/moPlus $20/moTeam $0
Capabilities input → output
Input
DocumentsWeb pages
TextWeb pages
DocumentsText
Output
Text
Data
Text
Skill level
Beginner-friendly
Beginner-friendly
Beginner-friendly
Categories
Research & AnalyticsWriting & ContentAI Research PapersAI Summarizer
Research & AnalyticsAI Research PapersAI Research Tool
Research & AnalyticsAI Research PapersAI Research Tool
Tasks what each tool can do · 0 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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Research papers
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Academic research
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Literature reviews
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Research
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Research papers analysis
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Citations
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Flashcards
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Research papers summaries
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Scientific research navigation
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Summaries
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Summarizing
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Citation formatting
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Document summarization
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PDFs
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Research recommendations
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Scientific literature exploration
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