Strongest fit
Who it is built for
- Professionals working with confidential client documents
- Mac users building searchable personal knowledge workspaces
- Researchers organizing documents, notes, and transcripts
Elephas
Private AI workspace for sensitive documents on Mac
Elephas is a Mac and iOS knowledge workspace for asking questions, drafting, and finding information across personal documents and notes. It indexes files locally, redacts sensitive information before optional cloud requests, and can run fully offline with local models.
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- Best for
- Professionals working with confidential client documents
- Pricing signal
- USD 19 / month
- Primary category
- Knowledge management
- Last verified
- Jul 30, 2026
The decision
Should Elephas make your shortlist?
Start with the job, the team, and the constraints. Product fit becomes much clearer when those three line up.
Practical use cases
Jobs it can take on
- Ask cited questions across project documents in a Super Brain
- Redact sensitive details before using cloud AI on a contract
- Rewrite or summarize selected text from any Mac app
Before you choose
Know the tradeoffs
- The direct-download app requires macOS 13 or later.
- The free plan includes 20 monthly credits for the built-in Elephas AI engine.
- The Mac App Store version does not include Super Command or text-writing features across other applications.
Inside the product
What you can actually do with it.
The core product capabilities, grouped around the work they enable.
Super Brain workspaces
Creates persistent, locally indexed workspaces from PDFs, notes, contracts, research, and connected sources for cited answers.
Sensitive-data protection
Detects and redacts 28 types of sensitive data on-device before content is sent to a cloud model.
System-wide writing
Uses the Super Command keyboard shortcut to summarize, rewrite, translate, fix grammar, or run custom commands in Mac applications.
Typical workflow
Add documents and notes to a focused Super Brain, where Elephas indexes them locally on your Mac. Choose offline AI, built-in cloud AI, or your own API provider, then ask questions or use writing commands with answers grounded in your sources.
Plans and official links
Plans and accessUSD 19 / month.
See the entry price, free access options, company details, and direct vendor destinations in one place.
Starting pointUSD 19 / month
Free planFree trial
See plans- Provider
- Liberation Softwares LLP
- Based in
- IN
- Founded
- 2021
Official destinations
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