Peanut FAQ
What Peanut is, how it works in your apps, what it costs, and how your data is handled.
What is Peanut?
Peanut is the narration layer for your computer — a desktop app for Mac and Windows. It speaks anything you'd read (select text anywhere, press a hotkey, hear it) and types anything you'd say (press the other hotkey, talk, and clean text lands at your cursor). Snippets, a personal dictionary, history, and a time-saved dashboard ride along.
How is Peanut different from Wispr Flow or Speechify?
Voice-input tools like Wispr Flow only go one direction — voice in. Reader apps like Speechify go the other, but make you bring content to them. Peanut does both directions in the apps you already use, via hotkey. Full comparisons: Wispr Flow · Speechify · Superwhisper.
Does it work in my apps?
If you can select text or place a cursor, yes — email, docs, chat, browsers, editors, CRMs, internal tools. Peanut works at the system level, so there's no per-app integration to wait for. A handful of apps block simulated pasting; your text is still on the clipboard, so a manual paste always works.
What if there's no text to select — like a screenshot or a PDF?
If it's on your screen, Peanut can say it. With nothing selected, Peanut reads your clipboard — including pulling words out of images with OCR and extracting text from PDFs.
What does it cost?
Free: 2,000 words a week, forever, no card. Basic is $10/month for everyday use. Pro is $20/month for the highest limits and premium ElevenLabs voices. Run long in a heavy week? Buy credits that stack on any plan and never expire. Details: Pricing.
Is my data private?
Your audio and text leave your machine only when you invoke a feature, and go only to the provider you've chosen (OpenAI or ElevenLabs) to do the work. Peanut never trains models on your content. History and audio are stored locally on your device, and the dashboard logs counts — never what you typed. Full detail: Trust.
Do I need an account or API keys?
Your choice of one: sign in with Google and use Peanut's service with zero key management, or bring your own OpenAI/ElevenLabs keys and pay providers directly. Keys are stored on your device.
Mac and Windows?
Both — Apple Silicon and Intel Macs, plus Windows 10/11. Defaults differ slightly per OS (hold-to-talk vs toggle), and everything is remappable, including single keys like fn. No mobile app: Peanut is for the computer, where your work actually is.
Can my team use it?
Yes — multi-seat rollout with centralized billing and admin controls. Write to peanut@askelephant.ai. If you came through a channel campaign, your offer lives on the page they sent you to.
Does it work offline?
No — the best voices and transcription live in the cloud, so Peanut needs a connection. Your history stays local either way.