Elephas

Elephas is a private AI document assistant for Mac and Windows for lawyers, accountants, consultants, financial advisors, researchers and other professionals who need answers from their own contracts, client files and reports without pasting them into a chatbot.

Key capabilities include:

• Private Brains from your own documents: add files or whole folders (PDFs, Word documents, spreadsheets, slide decks and scanned pages); Elephas reads and indexes them on your computer.
• Answers with sources: ask in plain language and every answer cites your files, so you can open the quoted passage and the page, slide or sheet it came from.
• Personal details hidden before cloud AI: names, email addresses and phone numbers are masked before a question leaves your computer and restored in the answer.
• Choice of model: Elephas AI is included, and Personal and Professional plans can also use your own API key or a model that runs on your computer.
• Six languages, including cross-language search (English, German, Spanish, French, Japanese and Chinese).
• Teams: shared Team Brains with manager, contributor and reader roles, one AI policy and pooled usage, and end-to-end encrypted sync.

Pricing: Paid with a 7-day free trial (no card needed). Personal $19/month ($15/month billed yearly), Professional $29/month ($24/month billed yearly, 3 computers, 2x AI usage, optional encrypted sync) and Team $29 per person/month ($24 billed yearly). Custom terms and SSO on request.

Notable for keeping documents stored locally with an encrypted index and chats, and for verifiable, file-cited answers. The new Elephas (macOS 14+ on Apple Silicon, Windows 10/11) is a separate app from the earlier Elephas Mac app, which keeps working for existing licence holders.