Scholarcy vs Papers vs Keenious vs SciSummary

Which one fits you in 2026? Traffic, pricing, input → output, tasks and community side by side.

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4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool Scholarcy
scholarcy.com
AI that reads papers so you can skim
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Competitor Papers
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 SciSummary
scisummary.com
SciSummary is an AI reading aid for scientific articles and research papers.
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
159Kvisits/mo
61.3Kvisits/mo
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MoM change
▼ 17.1%
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6-month growth
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Global rank web
#200,412
#616,043
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Avg. last 3 months
183.7K
65K
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Bounce rate lower is better
38%
40%
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Pages / visit
3.3
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Visit duration
54s
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Traffic sources
● Direct 92% · ● Referral 5%
● Direct 68% · ● Referral 31%
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ScholarcyPapersKeeniousSciSummary
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 · 61.3K10K100K1MScholarcy · 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 · 61.3KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
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Starting price
$8.99per month · free tier available
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€10per month · free tier available
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Essentials $10/moPlus $20/moTeam $0
Free FreePlus (Individual) €10/moPlus (Team) €20/moInstitutions Custom
Free Trial FreeStudent FreePro $4/mo
Capabilities input → output
Input
DocumentsWeb pages
DocumentsText
DocumentsText
Documents
Output
Text
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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
Productivity & OfficeResearch & AnalyticsWriting & ContentAI PDF+2 more
Tasks what each tool can do · 0 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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Literature reviews
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Research
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Research papers summaries
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Summarizing
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Academic research
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Scientific literature exploration
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Summaries
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Document summarization
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Literature analysis
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PDFs
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Research papers analysis
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Citations
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Flashcards
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Scientific research summaries
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Academic paper interpretations
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Article summaries
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Citation formatting
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Academic citation
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Academic papers simplification
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