NibGhost on Android
Is there a Ghost app for Android?
Not an official one. Ghost retired its mobile app and never replaced it. On its forum, Ghost has pointed to the cost of supporting the current rich-text editor on mobile. Ghost publishes no Android app in the Play Store.
That leaves a browser, a workaround, or a third-party app.
What people use instead
| Approach | What it is like |
|---|---|
| Ghost Admin in a mobile browser | Every feature is there, laid out for a laptop. People report switching the browser to desktop mode to reach the editor's controls, and losing text when the tab reloads in the background. |
| A writing app plus copy and paste | Obsidian, Docs, Keep. Fine for drafting. You still publish somewhere else, and formatting often breaks on the way. |
| A workflow tool on the Admin API | Zapier, n8n, a shortcut, a script. No preview and no drafts, and your Admin API key lives in another company's cloud. |
| A native third-party app | An app that calls the Admin API from the phone. Nib is one of these. |
Ghost publishes the Admin API openly, so anyone can build a client without asking permission. That is why this option exists.
What Nib is, and what it is not
A companion to Ghost Admin
Nib handles writing, publishing, scheduling, newsletters and day-to-day admin from a phone. Theme editing, code injection and site settings stay in Ghost Admin on a computer.
No account, no server
You connect with your own Admin API key, stored encrypted on the phone. Posts go from your phone to your site. Crash reports go to Google unless you switch them off.
Careful with posts it did not write
Change the title of a post you wrote in Ghost Admin, and Nib sends the title only. It leaves a body alone when it cannot reproduce it exactly.
Quick to start a post
Share a link or a photo from any app, write the thought, publish. With no signal, the post waits on the phone and goes out when the connection returns.
Getting started
Nib works with self-hosted Ghost and Ghost(Pro), version 5 or newer. You need your site address and an Admin API key, which takes about three minutes to create.
Get Nib on Google PlayFree to write and publish. Android 8.0 or newer.