# Grav Reviews
**Vendor:** Grav  
**Category:** [Web Content Management Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/web-content-management)  
**Average Rating:** 5.0/5.0  
**Total Reviews:** 1
## About Grav
Grav is a flat-file CMS platform.




## Grav Reviews
  ### 1. Simple, straight forward, and powerful!

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Luis F. | President, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** October 26, 2021

**What do you like best about Grav?**

The platform is powerful and easy to learn.  Aside from the technical aspect of it being very light-weight, the interaction is user friendly. It can easily handle the needs of most informational websites and blogs.  There is a plethora of information on their forums. It isn't as powerful as wordpress or joomla, but it takes care of business. You may  need a certain level of tech saviness but with the documentation you can quickly learn what is necessary.

**What do you dislike about Grav?**

It would be great for there to be more online videos and tutorials. A few parts of the backend can look odd or unpolished, but for something relatively new and small, it's understandable. The media manager could be a bit stronger, as well. Many edits require changes to the CSS files and creating new overrides, which can be confusing. It isn't that easy to design fully responsive pages when you tweak templates or build your own. It still requires HTML and CSS knowledge.

**What problems is Grav solving and how is that benefiting you?**

I was using it as a lightweight CMS alternative to Joomla. I liked its simplicity and functionality. The malleability of components may be limited compared to some of the editing platforms on, say, Wordpress. This is more than enough for simple websites for growing businesses. There are also many templates, and the parent company of the platform offers beautiful ones on RocketTheme.


## Grav Discussions
  - [Does Grav use a database?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/does-grav-use-a-database)
  - [Is Grav better than WordPress?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-grav-better-than-wordpress)
  - [What does Grav do?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-does-grav-do)

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## Grav Features
**Content**
- Content Authoring
- Rich Text Editor
- Versioning
- Plug-ins/Widgets/Apps
- Approval Process
- Content Scheduling
- Asset Management
- Internal Search
- Content Repository

**Design**
- Breadth of Pre-Built Templates
- Mobile
- Branding/Themes
- Customization

**Platform**
- User Community
- SEO
- Flexible Navigation Structures
- User, Role, and Access Management
- Enterprise Scalability
- Internationalization
- Dashboards and Reports
- API / Integrations

**Agentic AI - Web Content Management**
- Cross-system Integration
- Natural Language Interaction

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