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Download, install, and launch Grout Film.

Installing Grout Film

Grout

Ecosystem-wide help: unified sign-in, billing, API credits, and account settings shared across all Grout products.

Account & Billing

Update your profile, security, and ecosystem-wide preferences.

Account Settings

Update your profile, devices, and ecosystem-wide preferences from your distributor portal.

Managing your account settings

Quick answers to common ecosystem-wide account questions.

Account & Billing FAQ

Track, top up, and allocate API credits used by cloud AI models.

API Credit Management

Track, top up, and allocate Merits — the credits used by cloud AI models.

Understanding and managing Merits

Manage plans, payment methods, and invoices for the Grout ecosystem.

Billing & Subscriptions

Manage your license, Merits, invoices, and devices on your region-specific distributor portal.

Managing billing and subscriptions

How one account signs you in across Grout App, Code, and Film.

Unified One-Click Sign-In

How one Grout license signs you into App, Code, and Film with OTP-based sign-in.

Unified one-click sign-in across the Grout ecosystem

AI-powered video and audio generator combined with a full non-linear editor timeline.

Grout Film

Export finished videos and resolve common Grout Film issues.

Exporting & Troubleshooting

Export a completed timeline as a finished video file.

Exporting your finished video

Answers to common Grout Film questions and issues.

Grout Film troubleshooting & FAQ

Generate voiceovers with Text-to-Speech and transcribe with Speech-to-Text, including local engines.

Voice: TTS & STT

Use Grout Film's built-in TTS engine to create natural-sounding voiceovers.

Generating voiceovers with Text-to-Speech

Use the built-in STT engine to turn spoken audio into text.

Transcribing audio with Speech-to-Text

Set up local TTS and STT engines for offline voice generation.

Downloading and running voice engines locally

Cut, trim, and arrange clips on the V1/A1 non-linear editor timeline.

Timeline Editing

Cut, trim, and arrange clips on Grout Film's non-linear editor timeline.

Editing on the V1/A1 timeline

Place TTS voiceovers and audio clips on the A1 track.

Adding voiceover and audio to your timeline

Prompt-to-image and image-to-video generation built into the media bin.

AI Image & Video Generation

Use prompt-to-image and image-to-video generation in the media bin.

Generating images and video with AI

Tips for getting better results from image and video generation.

Writing effective generation prompts

Install Grout Film and learn how AI generation and the timeline work together.

Getting Started with Grout Film

You're in the Grout Film docs — the AI video and audio generator with a full editing timeline.

Welcome to Grout Film

Understand the two halves of Grout Film: the AI media bin and the NLE timeline.

How generation and the timeline work together

AI-native IDE for whitecoding and agentic development — from learning modern stacks to shipping to production.

Grout Code

Fixes for common Grout Code issues and questions.

Troubleshooting

Answers to common Grout Code questions and issues.

Grout Code troubleshooting & FAQ

Use the inline mentor to break down complex logic step by step.

Ask Workflow

Your inline mentor for breaking down complex logic step by step.

Using the Ask workflow

Turn terminal stack traces into inline red-to-green diff fixes.

Debug Workflow

Using the Debug workflow

How the Debug workflow interprets terminal errors.

Reading stack traces with Grout Code

Ingest large repositories to trace data flows and explain undocumented logic.

Team Workflow

Using the Team workflow

Follow how data moves through an unfamiliar repository.

Tracing data flows in a large codebase

Autonomously write multi-file features and execute terminal commands.

Agent Workflow

Let Grout Code autonomously write multi-file features and run terminal commands.

Using the Agent workflow

How to review multi-file edits and commands before accepting them.

Reviewing Agent changes and terminal commands

Generate architectural blueprints and directory structures before writing code.

Plan Workflow

Generate architectural blueprints and directory structures before you write code.

Using the Plan workflow

Adjust generated blueprints before handing them to the Agent workflow.

Refining and iterating on a plan

Install the IDE, understand whitecoding, and run your first agentic workflow.

Getting Started with Grout Code

You're in the Grout Code docs — the AI-native IDE for whitecoding and agentic development.

Welcome to Grout Code

Download, install, and launch the Grout Code IDE.

Installing Grout Code

What whitecoding means in Grout Code and how the IDE supports it.

Understanding whitecoding

AI-native studio and multipage canvas for students, educators, and knowledge workers. Research, synthesis, and visual creation.

Grout App

Set up Grout App, learn the multipage canvas, and create your first project.

Getting Started with Grout App

What Grout App is, who it's for, and why it works differently from a normal AI chatbot.

Welcome to Grout App

How to download, install, and launch the Grout App desktop application.

Installing Grout App: desktop setup & system requirements

Understand the infinite, multipage studio at the heart of Grout App.

The Multipage Canvas explained

A step-by-step walkthrough to go from an empty canvas to your first AI-grounded project.

Quick-start: building your first canvas

Upload, scan, and organize your personal context library that powers every AI answer.

AI-Memory (Knowledge Base)

An overview of your personal context library and why it is the foundation of Grout App.

What is AI-Memory?

How to add textbooks, past papers, curriculum guides, and case studies to your knowledge base.

Uploading PDFs & documents to AI-Memory

Send photos of physical textbooks, handwritten notes, and whiteboard sketches straight to your canvas.

Scanning notes from your phone with a QR code

Switch between 300+ models, run Local AI, and use context-locked prompting, the Tutor, Vision, and Draw-to-Image.

AI Tools & Models

How to change models and compare how different AIs reason through the same problem.

Switching between 300+ AI models

Run AI models entirely on your machine so sensitive data never leaves your device.

Using Local AI for privacy

Use the @ symbol to force AI answers to come only from your uploaded materials.

Context-Locked Prompting with @ mentions

An interactive agent that walks you through complex concepts using your own materials.

Using the AI Tutor Agent

Turn histology slides, diagrams, and other visual data into text or structured data.

Analyzing visuals with AI Vision

Turn rough sketches into high-fidelity, photorealistic images with a text prompt.

The Draw-to-Image Engine

Generate images entirely on your machine with Bonsai, Stable Diffusion, or Flux — no Merits consumed.

Offline image generation: overview

Set up Bonsai, Stable Diffusion, or Flux and generate images offline.

Downloading and running local image models

Bring your own sd.cpp-compatible model into Grout App.

Adding custom GGUF models from HuggingFace

How Grout App automatically uses your GPU for offline image generation.

GPU acceleration: Metal, CUDA, and Vulkan

Decide between cloud and offline models based on quality, Merits, privacy, and connectivity.

Cloud vs offline image generation: when to use which

Generate teaching materials with AI Creator and polish projects with the Asset Library.

Creating & Synthesizing

Generate template-driven lesson plans, case studies, and visual aids from your curriculum.

Using AI Creator to build teaching materials

A built-in repository of UI elements, 3D icons, and dividers to polish your projects.

The Asset Library

Prove your process with the Transparency Dashboard and export or present your work.

Export & Accountability

Show exactly how a project was created — prompts, sources, and sketches — for academic integrity.

The Transparency Dashboard

Export your canvas projects as PDF, JPEG files for revision or GRT files for sharing.

Exporting to GRT, PDF and JPEG

Turn any canvas into a full-screen interactive slideshow.

Presenting your work with Present Now

Offline mode, single-player workspace, and answers to common questions.

Workspace & Troubleshooting

How Grout App's offline-first design lets you keep working without an internet connection.

Working offline with Grout App

Why Grout App supports one person per canvas, and what that means for collaboration.