Scholarcy vs Papers vs Keenious vs Explainpaper

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Your tool Scholarcy
scholarcy.com
AI that reads papers so you can skim
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papersapp.com
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Competitor Keenious
keenious.com
Keenious is a research companion that finds published academic literature related to the text you are working on.
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Competitor Explainpaper
explainpaper.com
Explainpaper breaks down why that quantum mechanics paper uses "eigenvalues" in equation 12 when you highlight confusing text in research papers
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
159Kvisits/mo
61.3Kvisits/mo
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35.2Kvisits/mo
MoM change
▼ 17.1%
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▼ 12.5%
6-month growth
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Global rank web
#200,412
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#806,701
Avg. last 3 months
183.7K
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43.2K
Bounce rate lower is better
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42%
Pages / visit
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Visit duration
54s
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23s
Traffic sources
● Direct 92% · ● Referral 5%
● Direct 68% · ● Referral 31%
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● Direct 88% · ● Referral 11%
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0102.8K205.7K308.5K411.4KScholarcy · 411.4KScholarcy · 312.2KScholarcy · 313.4KScholarcy · 279.1KScholarcy · 286.3KScholarcy · 328.9KScholarcy · 279.7KScholarcy · 200.4KScholarcy · 191.8KScholarcy · 159KPapers · 87KPapers · 82.4KPapers · 81.4KPapers · 61.3KPapers · 69.4KPapers · 61.5KPapers · 65.8KPapers · 67.9KPapers · 61.3KExplainpaper · 69.9KExplainpaper · 82.9KExplainpaper · 82.3KExplainpaper · 69.1KExplainpaper · 97.5KExplainpaper · 53.1KExplainpaper · 55.8KExplainpaper · 54.1KExplainpaper · 40.2KExplainpaper · 35.2K10K100K1MScholarcy · 411.4KScholarcy · 312.2KScholarcy · 313.4KScholarcy · 279.1KScholarcy · 286.3KScholarcy · 328.9KScholarcy · 279.7KScholarcy · 200.4KScholarcy · 191.8KScholarcy · 159KPapers · 87KPapers · 82.4KPapers · 81.4KPapers · 61.3KPapers · 69.4KPapers · 61.5KPapers · 65.8KPapers · 67.9KPapers · 61.3KExplainpaper · 69.9KExplainpaper · 82.9KExplainpaper · 82.3KExplainpaper · 69.1KExplainpaper · 97.5KExplainpaper · 53.1KExplainpaper · 55.8KExplainpaper · 54.1KExplainpaper · 40.2KExplainpaper · 35.2KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
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$8.99per month · free tier available
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Capabilities input → output
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DocumentsWeb pages
DocumentsText
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Skill level
Beginner-friendly
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Categories
Research & AnalyticsWriting & ContentAI Research PapersAI Summarizer
Research & AnalyticsAI Research PapersAI Research Tool
Research & AnalyticsAI Research PapersAI Research Tool
Education & LearningProductivity & OfficeResearch & AnalyticsAI PDF+2 more
Tasks what each tool can do · 0 shared · core   partial
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