Move your team from Scholarcy to SciSpace.
Each person gets a short interview, then a personalized step-by-step guide showing exactly where their saved work, prompts, and projects land in SciSpace — and the few things that need a manual step, walked through. You send one invite; nobody becomes the help desk, and nothing in Scholarcy is changed or cancelled. Want to see where you’re paying for both first? Run the free audit.
Both products offer a browser extension that works alongside papers on publisher websites and PDF viewers so users never leave the original source. Moving from Scholarcy to SciSpace: uninstall or disable the Scholarcy extension, install SciSpace Copilot from the Chrome Web Store, and grant it access to the publisher sites you use (Nature, ScienceDirect, Wiley, etc.). Where you previously clicked the Scholarcy icon to generate a flashcard, you now highlight text or use the Copilot panel to ask questions, get explanations, or request a summary; discovered related papers appear in-panel. Save articles to your SciSpace library to replicate Scholarcy's Library save. Moving from SciSpace to Scholarcy: install the Scholarcy extension (Chrome, Edge, or Firefox) and set the Source priority to PDF or HTML as needed; clicking the Scholarcy icon on any article page opens an interactive flashcard in a side window with structured sections, Robo-Highlights, references, and figure extraction—replacing the SciSpace Q&A panel with a pre-built summary layout. Premium Scholarcy Library subscribers can save, annotate, share, and batch-export flashcards from the browser extension.
- Warning: Scholarcy's extension produces a single-click pre-built flashcard; SciSpace Copilot is interactive but requires the user to initiate each question or summary. The workflow shift from passive to active reading assistance may need team retraining.
- Warning: Scholarcy's browser extension is available for Chrome, Edge, and Firefox; SciSpace Copilot is a Chrome extension only. Firefox users cannot switch to SciSpace Copilot directly.
- Warning: Premium Scholarcy features (saving, annotating, and exporting flashcards from the browser) require a paid Scholarcy Library subscription; equivalent SciSpace library save/export features also require a paid plan. Both have limited free tiers for extension use.
Scholarcy's Robo-Highlighter automatically surfaces salient phrases, claims, and contributions inside a flashcard without any user action; SciSpace Copilot achieves the same reading-acceleration goal by letting users highlight any passage on a publisher page or PDF and instantly receive a research-backed explanation or summary of that selection. Moving from Scholarcy to SciSpace: install the SciSpace Copilot Chrome extension, open the same publisher page or PDF, and highlight passages that Scholarcy would have flagged; the extension's explanation panel replaces the important-points sidebar. Save articles to your SciSpace library to revisit. Moving from SciSpace to Scholarcy: install the Scholarcy Chrome or Edge extension, open the same article, and click the extension icon to generate a flashcard; the Robo-Highlighter automatically identifies and highlights the key phrases and the important-points sidebar links to the relevant sections, replacing the manual highlight-and-ask workflow.
- Warning: Scholarcy's Robo-Highlighter is automatic and always-on during flashcard generation; SciSpace Copilot is user-initiated (you must select text). Users accustomed to passive highlighting will need to actively engage with SciSpace.
- Warning: SciSpace Copilot's language support is cited inconsistently: 13 languages in the Chrome Web Store listing vs. 75+ on marketing pages. Workflows in non-English languages should be tested before full migration.
- Warning: Saving highlighted articles to SciSpace for later access requires a paid plan for more than a few saves; Scholarcy Library saves are similarly plan-gated.
Both tools produce structured AI summaries of research papers from uploaded PDFs or URLs. Moving from Scholarcy to SciSpace: export your existing Scholarcy flashcards (Summary or Highlights) as Word/JSON from the Library Export menu, then upload the same PDFs to SciSpace's Chat with PDF. Use the TL;DR prompt to reproduce the top-level summary, then ask follow-up questions to replicate the structured sections Scholarcy surfaces automatically (key contributions, methods, conclusions). Moving from SciSpace to Scholarcy: take the PDFs you've been chatting with and import them via the Scholarcy Library upload or the browser extension; Scholarcy auto-generates a flashcard with structured sections, key concepts, and an important-points sidebar without prompting. Scholarcy's seven enhanced-summary modes (school level, one-liner, researcher, custom questions) let you replicate the iterative Q&A style you had in SciSpace.
- Warning: Scholarcy flashcard generation works best on academic documents over ~4,000 words; shorter or non-scholarly PDFs may produce thin summaries, whereas SciSpace's Chat with PDF handles diverse document types more flexibly.
- Warning: SciSpace's free Basic plan caps PDF chat sessions at around 5 per month; Scholarcy's free tier limits Library saves. Budget accordingly before migrating a high-volume workflow.
- Warning: SciSpace answers are grounded in the document and include in-text citation pointers but are conversational rather than a fixed structured layout; Scholarcy always produces the same flashcard sections. Teams relying on a consistent summary format will need to prompt SciSpace deliberately each time.
Both tools extract and format citations from research papers for use in reference managers and manuscripts. Moving from Scholarcy to SciSpace: from each Scholarcy flashcard, export the References section as a .bib or .ris file (Export menu → References → download zip); import that file into Zotero or Mendeley. In SciSpace, use the Citation Generator (search by DOI, title, or URL) to re-generate citations for any papers you need to format for a new manuscript, selecting from 2,300+ styles. Moving from SciSpace to Scholarcy: import the source PDFs into Scholarcy Library; the flashcard automatically builds an annotated reference list and locates open-access full text on Google Scholar or arXiv. Export in .ris or .bib format from the Export menu for use in Zotero, Mendeley, or EndNote. For bulk bibliography work, Scholarcy can export references from all flashcards in a Library folder at once.
- Warning: SciSpace's free Basic plan caps citation generation at around 20 citations and blocks export; Scholarcy's free tier also limits Library size. Heavy bibliography workflows require a paid plan on both sides.
- Warning: Scholarcy exports .ris and .bib only; SciSpace Citation Generator also outputs to BibTeX and Word-compatible formats and covers 9,000+ styles in its manual-entry flow, offering broader style coverage than Scholarcy's export.
- Warning: Scholarcy annotates references with open-access full-text links (arXiv, Google Scholar); SciSpace does not attach full-text location to generated citations, so you may lose that context when migrating to SciSpace.
Both tools let researchers pull structured data (tables, figures, extracted metrics) out of papers for comparison and analysis. Moving from Scholarcy to SciSpace: download extracted tables as Excel files from the Scholarcy flashcard Export menu before migrating; in SciSpace open a Literature Review, add the same papers (by title or DOI search), and create custom columns with natural-language prompts that reproduce the data-points you were extracting (e.g., 'Extract the sample size and primary outcome from this paper'). SciSpace runs each column instruction across all added papers and outputs a comparison table exportable to CSV or Excel on paid tiers. Moving from SciSpace to Scholarcy: for individual-paper table extraction, upload the PDF to Scholarcy Library; the flashcard's Tables and Figures section presents detected tables with captions and download buttons. For bulk comparison, you will need to process papers one at a time since Scholarcy does not offer a multi-paper comparison table.
- Warning: Scholarcy extracts tables and figures from a single paper at a time; SciSpace Literature Review is designed for multi-paper comparison. If you rely on cross-paper synthesis, moving to Scholarcy means losing that comparative view.
- Warning: SciSpace's custom-column extraction and CSV export are gated behind paid plans (Premium and above); Deep Review multi-paper analysis requires the Advanced tier and consumes monthly credits per run.
- Warning: Scholarcy can download extracted figures as image files; SciSpace Literature Review columns extract text-based insights and does not provide figure downloads.