Elephas

What Elephas does

• Cited answers. Answers questions from your documents with page-level citations.
• Multi-format reading. Handles PDFs, Word files, spreadsheets, slides and scanned pages.
• Personal-detail masking. Hides names, emails and phone numbers before a question goes to a cloud AI.
• Choice of AI. Use Elephas AI, your own OpenAI, Claude or Gemini key, or an on-computer model.
• Shared Team Brains. Teams share document collections with encrypted sync and one AI policy.

Who it’s for

• Professionals who need cited answers from their own files
• Teams sharing a document knowledge base with privacy controls
• Users who want a local on-computer model option

Elephas pricing

7-day free trial, no card; Personal $19/mo ($15/mo yearly); Professional $29/mo; Team $29/user/mo ($24 yearly)

As listed on November 9, 2026. Check elephas.app for current prices.

Things to know

• No ongoing free plan; the trial lasts 7 days
• Requires macOS 14+ on Apple Silicon or Windows 10/11 64-bit
• No mobile app for the current Elephas, per the site

Quick answers

What is Elephas?

Elephas is a desktop app for Mac and Windows from Liberation Softwares LLP that answers questions from a user's own documents and cites the source for each answer.

Is Elephas free?

No. Elephas has no permanent free plan. Paid plans start at $19 a month. (As listed on November 9, 2026.)

Who makes Elephas?

Elephas is made by Liberation Softwares LLP.

Where can you use Elephas?

Elephas is available on desktop (apps, editor plugins or browser extensions).

What are some alternatives to Elephas?

Other tools filed in the same section include Jenni AI, Quetext and Jasper.

Tags

#document-search#citations#privacy#mac#windows