Introduction

Grafida is a writing tool for Joomla! articles. You write and edit on your device — with or without a network connection — and Grafida sends the finished result to your site over its Web Services (REST) API when you choose to publish.

Offline first

Everything you write lives on your device first. A new article is a local draft in Grafida's own database until you press Publish; nothing reaches your site before then. You can keep working on a draft with no connection at all — on a plane, on a train, wherever — and publish later when you are back online.

The same is true the other way round: opening an existing article from your site downloads a copy into a local draft, and further edits stay local until you publish again. Two people editing the same article at the same time is a real possibility this does not protect you from — Grafida has no notion of another person's edits, only of what your site last reported.

What Grafida is not

It is not a general Joomla! administration tool. There is no user manager, no extension manager, no global configuration — only the parts of a site that concern writing and illustrating an article: its categories, tags, access levels, custom fields, and the Media Manager.

It is also not a syncing service. Moving a draft between this device and Akeeba's desktop Grafida app is a deliberate, one-off export and import — see Drafts and Files — not an always-on sync.

Where to go next

• Requirements — what your device and your site both need.
• Connect a Site — the one thing you do before anything else works.
• Sites, Articles, Editing Articles, Media, Publishing — one page per screen.
• AI Assistant — an entirely optional, entirely off-until-configured writing assistant.
• Settings — Grafida's options live in the device's own Settings app; this page says where, and what each one does.
• Connection Troubleshooting — when Test Connection fails.