For listeners
One subscription, the whole catalog. Nine ninety-nine a month. There are no per-creator paywalls, no per-audio purchases, no hidden tiers — every audio in the library is included.
You can listen anonymously without an account. Default content is playable by anyone, with light ad breaks between tracks. Sign in (free, no payment) and the ads get lighter. Subscribe to premium and they go away entirely, plus you unlock exclusive content — pieces creators have marked for paying members only.
Some content (we call it restricted) requires you to be signed in regardless of subscription, and is opt-in even then. We don't surface it to anonymous browsers, ever.
What gets cut from the library
Some kinds of content aren't allowed at all — not for moral reasons, but because the payment networks that handle our subscriptions categorically refuse them. We're upfront about that list (see our prohibited categories page). Everything not on that list is fair game on the platform.
The Royalty Pool
70% of what we make from listener subscriptions goes into a pool. That pool is divided up among creators based on their share of qualified plays in a given month. A “qualified play” is any listen over 30 seconds by a subscribed listener. Multiple plays of the same track by the same listener in one day are counted as one. The creator’s own plays of their tracks do not count.
For voice actors
You publish audios — either by recording your own original work or by filling someone else's script. Either way, your audios live on your profile, listeners discover them through the catalog, and qualified plays earn you a share of the monthly pool.
Three ways to make money on hush
Royalty share from the subscription pool. Your share of the monthly pool = (your audio's qualified plays ÷ total qualified plays in the library) × 70% of the month's subscription revenue. Split with your writer (if any) per your contributor agreement.
Tips. Listeners can tip in coins (4 coins = $1). You keep 85% net of platform fees.
Personal requests. Listeners can pay you in coins for custom commissions, recurring morning messages, or one-off birthday/event messages. Priced by you. You keep 85%.
You don't have to do this for the money
Most VAs in this space already record for free on Reddit and Soundgasm. The royalty pool is a real income layer on top of that, but the platform is also genuinely a better place to host your work than soundgasm — you get a profile, a follower base, search, recommendations, listener notifications, and direct lead-flow into commissions and tips. Even if your share of the pool starts small, the discovery surface is real.
For writers
Writers are first-class on hush. You're not a footnote in someone else's audio — you're a contributor with your own profile, your own analytics, and your own share of every fill.
How writing pays
You publish scripts. They appear in the writers' room (browseable by VAs).
VAs submit interest. You review and approve who fills it. (Or set the script to auto-approve verified VAs, or invite specific ones — your call.)
When a VA records and publishes a fill, both of you appear as contributors. Royalties from listener plays split between you per the agreed contributor share. Default is 70% to the VA, 30% to the writer — you can negotiate per fill.
One script, multiple fills. Different VAs fill the same script with different performances; you get credit (and royalty share) on every one.
Listener-funded creator premium
Listeners can gift a creator's premium tier — 20 coins ($5) for one month. Gifts stack. If three listeners each gift you a month, that's 90 days of premium queued up. It's a community-funding mechanic, not a charity one — gifters get their name credited on your premium grant.
How filling works
This is the part everyone has the most questions about. Walk through it once and it should be clear.
Writer publishes
Script goes into the writers' room with a fill mode (review / auto-approve verified / invite-only).
VA submits interest
VAs see open scripts in their feed. To submit, they include a short pitch and an optional 30-second voice sample tailored to the script.
Writer reviews
Writer sees all submissions in their inbox. Approves, declines (with structured reason), or leaves pending. Stats on review behavior are public on their profile.
VA records & publishes
Approved VA has 30 days to record and publish. Royalty split is locked at approval. The audio gets attributed to both creators.
Fill modes
Writers pick the mode per script:
Submission review (default). VAs submit, writer picks. The most common path. Eliminates refresh-button sniping because there's no advantage to being first — the writer's evaluating the fit, not the timing.
Auto-approve verified. The first three VAs at verified-tier or higher get instant approval. Useful for low-friction scripts where the writer trusts the bar of "verified." Verified status comes from track record (published audios, completion rate, no recent terminations).
Invitation only. Writer pre-selects specific VAs. Used for established collaborations.
Why submission review is the default
Because the alternative is bad. If filling were first-come-first-served, every well-written script would get sniped within seconds of publishing — including by VAs who don't fit the tone, voice, or experience level the writer had in mind. The script is the writer's IP. They get to choose who voices it.
The submission flow takes that decision out of "who has the fastest refresh finger" and puts it back where it belongs: the writer evaluating the fit. VAs aren't penalized for being slow to spot a script — being thoughtful about your pitch and sample beats being fast.
Caps and why they exist
Two soft caps prevent the system from being abused. Both can be lifted by upgrading to a creator premium tier ($5/mo).
Free-tier writers: 3 fills per script
A writer on the free creator tier can have any one of their scripts filled by up to three different VAs. After that, the script is closed to new fills until the writer upgrades to premium. This stops anyone from posting hundreds of scripts and farming royalty share through volume rather than quality.
Existing fills are never invalidated retroactively. If you go from free to premium and back to free, your past fills stay; only new fills are gated.
VA active-claim cap
A VA on the free tier can have at most five approved-but-unrecorded scripts at once. Premium VAs can hold up to fifteen. Approved claims that go thirty days without a published audio expire and the spot opens back up.
Premium isn't pay-to-win
Both caps are about preventing volume abuse, not gating quality. A good free-tier writer with three fills per script and a strong reputation can absolutely out-earn a paid writer with sloppy work. The cap is a check, not a paywall.
The pool, in numbers
Let's make this concrete. A simplified month:
$98K
Subscription revenue this month (10,000 subs at $9.99)
$68.6K
Goes to the creator pool (70% share)
$29.4K
Stays with the platform (operations, processor fees, reserves)
2.4M
Qualified plays this month
$0.0286
Per qualified play, before split
If your audio gets 5,000 qualified plays, that's $143 from the pool. Split 70/30 with your writer, you net $100 and they net $43. Tips and personal requests are on top of that, in coins, not the pool.
This is a deliberately ungenerous example — early-stage subscriber numbers. The math gets meaningfully better as the platform grows, because the pool grows linearly with subs while top creator payouts grow super-linearly with audience.
The cold-start problem
For the first six to twelve months, per-play payouts will be small. We know that. We're committing some platform reserves to founding-creator guarantees so early VAs and writers don't get hosed during ramp-up. That's funded from runway, not the pool — it doesn't dilute anyone else's share.
Transparency
Three things are public on every creator profile so the system is visible from the outside, not opaque:
Writer review stats. Average response time on submissions. Approval rate. Number of stale-pending submissions. A writer who takes three weeks to respond to every submission can't hide it — VAs see the stats and decide whether to bother submitting.
VA completion rate. Of approved claims you take, what percentage do you actually record and publish? A VA who claims and ghosts gets visibly flagged, which weighs on writers' approval decisions.
Royalty payouts. Aggregate per-creator monthly payouts for the prior month are visible (rounded to the nearest $50, opt-out available). Creators considering joining can see what the platform actually pays.
Disputes and edge cases
Approved but never recorded. 30-day timer auto-expires the claim; spot reopens.
Recorded but writer rejects the final audio. Edge case. Mediated by platform moderators if it can't be resolved. Royalty share is locked at approval, so the writer can't withhold credit after the fact.
Chargebacks against tips or commissions. Tips and commissions are funded by coins. Coins are non-refundable per T&C. The chargeback risk is on the original coin purchase, not on individual tips — and tips out of long-settled coin balances carry no chargeback risk by then.
Content takedowns. If a takedown is required (DMCA, ToS, processor mandate), the audio is removed but the past royalty record stays in the books. Past plays were paid; they don't unpay.
Frequently asked
How do you make sure everyone in your content is a consenting adult?
Every writer and voice actor on hush works under a signed agreement before anything goes live. That agreement requires them to confirm they're 18+, provide ID on request, and give explicit written consent — to being depicted in the content, to it being published on hush, and (where applicable) to it being downloadable. We keep records of all of it. All creators are manually verified by us.
How do you verify age before someone accesses the content?
hush will require visitors to confirm they are 18 or older before entering the site. The confirmation will be logged in at the time of entry. We're currently evaluating additional age-verification methods since regulations are consistently changing across the globe.
How do I report content or request something be removed?
Email hi@hush.hot with the content link and your concern. We review every report and resolve within 5 business days.
If your request is about consent or safety, for instance, you no longer consent to the content, it's being used to harass you, or something similar, we take it down immediately once we've confirmed your identity against our records. For these situations, there are no exceptions, no penalty. You can also appeal a decision you disagree with; a human on our team who wasn't part of the original call reviews it.
Outside of consent/safety situations; for example, you just want to pull a piece for other creative or business reasons — note that new uploads carry a 90-day exclusivity window to protect the listener experience. Removing work during that window may affect your ability to join or be paid from the pool. Every situation is still reviewed case-by-case by a human, not an algorithm, and we'll always talk it through with you first.
What's your policy on trafficking and exploitation?
hush has zero tolerance for content or activity that promotes, facilitates, or depicts human trafficking, sex trafficking, or physical abuse. Every writer and voice actor confirms their identity, age, and consent before any content goes live, and all content is reviewed before publication. Anyone can report a concern to hi@hush.hot, and confirmed violations result in immediate content removal and account termination.
All audios have a roleplay warning at the beginning of the audio. You aren't able to remove that by design. You will be able to choose between three voice options, but nothing else. It doesn't matter if you pay for premium. The warning is always there.
Is any content on hush AI-generated?
No. Every story on hush is written by a real person and performed by a real voice actor. While we're not broadly anti-AI (you can manage your household however you want), we believe that human creativity should be at the forefront of this field.
If you want to join but are using generative AI for your content, please don't. We can't always spot it, and we prefer to work on the honor system here.
It's important that you read our terms when you join. Our terms prohibit anyone from using your voice or content to train AI without our consent, and we pursue takedowns against anyone who does. We're also working on a technical layer to make that harder for bad actors to attempt in the first place.
How do you keep illegal or non-consensual content off the platform?
Humans. That's the answer. Look, we're not here for sweet (at least I'm not) and I prefer it when things lean dark. But there is such a thing as nuance, and it's incredibly important. Every single script that gets uploaded to the platform gets verified by human eyes, and if we're ever in doubt, we can talk about it with the rest of the team. Every single submission is reviewed before it's published, and anyone who is found wantonly violating the rules is banned. Anything reported as a violation is immediately removed and then reviewed.
We're all adults here, and this kind of thing is complicated. So we err on the side of caution so we can give you the best experience we can.
What about commissions — are those in the pool?
No. Commissions and personal requests are paid directly by the listener to the creator (in coins, with a platform fee). They don't enter the royalty pool, and they don't dilute it. They're a separate revenue stream that runs in parallel.
What is "verified-tier" and how do I get there?
Verified is a status that unlocks faster fill approvals and signals quality to writers. It's awarded based on track record: published audios, completion rate (claims recorded vs. abandoned), no recent terminations, and a minimum tenure on platform. Specific thresholds are documented and not negotiable. New creators can typically reach verified within 60–90 days of consistent activity.
What payment methods do you accept?
Credit/debit cards via Segpay and CCBill (the two adult-vertical processors that take this category). Paysafecard and Neosurf vouchers for cash-equivalent payment in supported regions. Crypto coming later. We can't accept Stripe, PayPal, Apple Pay, or Google Pay — they categorically refuse this vertical.
Why is this site so quiet about being adult content?
Because most adult platforms feel like a shouting match. The audience for this product wants something that feels like a calm, considered piece of media — closer to Audible than to a porn tube. The visual language is part of the value proposition.