Working offline with Grout App

Grout App is built with an offline-first architecture. The core canvas and local AI tools are designed to keep working even when your internet connection drops.

What works offline

• The core canvas — creating, arranging, and editing your work

• Local AI — models that run entirely on your machine

• Offline image generation — generate images locally with Bonsai, Stable Diffusion, or Flux. See Offline image generation: overview.

• Your already-organized AI-Memory material

What needs a connection

Features that rely on the internet — such as the 300+ cloud AI models, cloud image generation, and phone scanning over Wi-Fi — need connectivity. When you're offline, switch to Local AI for text and to offline image models for visuals to keep your AI workflow going.

Tips for offline work

• Open the app at least once while online so your account and tools are ready.

• Set up a Local AI model in advance so it's available when you lose connection.

• Download offline image models in advance — they download once and then run fully offline.

• When your connection returns, cloud models, cloud image generation, and phone scanning become available again.

Grout App is now 100% offline-capable

With Local AI, the offline-first canvas, and offline image generation working together, Grout App now supports your full workflow — research, prompt, generate, and create — without an internet connection.