Lokalise

Vorteile

It is easy to use and implement for both tech team and translators. To best of our knowledge, it is not missing any features we might need and we can easily add new languages and even take advantage of Google Translate.

Nachteile

I found the Admin section bit confusing in the past but their team explained it quickly in the live chat.

Vorteile

Makes it easy and fast for us to translate new strings for our application. Gives us access to professional translators without the hassle to export / reimport the strings in different formats like i'v done in the past (Excel sheets).

Their support is very responsive and comprehensive

Vorteile

I really like lokalise because it allows translators to have a real scenario and context, and the same for our proofreaders.

Nachteile

Its price. We found it really expensive.

Vorteile

It's a easy to use tool with a friendly design; Support is good and reactive.
Must have to handle translation on multi platforms.

Nachteile

While lokalise's improving a lot, there's still some cases to handle, like android menu items or strings using in customs views;

Vorteile

Excellent CAT-tool makes my work extremely enjoyable and rewarding. Features that are actually useful, no clutter, a focus mode that lets me focus on translation - all of these features make it one of the best tools for mobile app/game localization.

Nachteile

Pricing is a bit steep if you ask me, however there even more expensive tools out there. I believe features and functionality is well worth the trade-off.

Vorteile

Very easy to use, and great and very fast support.

Nachteile

I missed the BitBucket integration, but that's added too :-)

Vorteile

I like the tight integration with our Ruby on rails backend. It makes deploying translations easy. I also like how easy it is to order translations from them, get free machine translations, or hire your own private translator.

Nachteile

It used to be expensive, but the new pricing model reduced our yearly fee from $2,000/year to $200/year, so it's now a great value

Vorteile

a lot of features and integrations
it makes easy to collaborate with external translators
gives you an overview of the translation state

Nachteile

we had only one issue with the plans but the support solved it immediately.
in general the interface for the administrator is a bit cluttered
the prices offered inside of the app for the translations are a bit too high wrt the market, but you can use your own people to translate the app, so it's not a big issue

Vorteile

It's extremely easy to use, intuitive, fast, full of all the little features we needed.

Nachteile

It can always be cheaper. but it's still great value for the money!

Vorteile

Simply amazing!

Vorteile

First and foremost, the team are extremely communicative and helpful. Every question we asked was answered in minutes and they gave us fantastic and friendly assistance to get us onboarded swiftly. 100% awesome.

The QA feature found literally thousands of errors throughout our translations — we had missed these for *years* using our previous tool.

We export our translations for use in an iOS and Android app — there are variable placeholders in several files and Lokalise makes it super simple to define these so they are exported to the correct format for the target platform; no need to write scripts to convert from iOS "%@" to Android "%s" etc...

Additionally, we love the platform-specific features; being able to specifically disable a key for export on iOS or Android, or change the name of the key when exported, so that it can match that platform's conventions.

The pricing model is sensible, you are charged on translation keys and not penalised for adding new languages. Again, this is way better than other solutions on the market.

When importing translations, Lokalise is intelligent and recognises the language.

All the modern (and obscure) localisation formats that we needed were available.

The web interface is intuitive and easy to learn, you can tab across navigate quickly.

Nachteile

Nothing really, this has been a real upgrade in process and quality for us.

Vorteile

Lokalise has completely transformed how we translate our apps.

We don't have to struggle with zip files flying around via email and are able to quickly and efficiently produce new builds for review.

Once we had fixed the main problem, we were able to use Lokalise to completely automate our translations process using web hooks. When translations are Reviewed by our provider, we pull these into Bitbucket, generate a new build and run UI tests to generate Screenshots which are sent to the client within one hour. This process used to take at least 5 days per language.

Nachteile

Honestly, not much. the only problem we've had is with User Permissions, users report not being able to see Languages but it's always because we haven't updated their permissions.

Vorteile

Lokalise is extremely easy to use, the speed in which translations are returned to us has helped improved efficiency across our teams! Our account managers ([SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN]) have always been on hand to help with any queries.

Nachteile

I'd like if there was some optional add on so that we could add a certain number of translations included with our package.

Vorteile

Lokalise made things very simple for the mobile team leading our multilingual app development. Versions x.1 have no longer been launched for typing reasons (in the past we always had to launch small updates to fix typos or to rephrase things that were not clear). The "intelligence" in Lokalise, recommending words that are similiar to the ones already used in other sections of the app is incredible.

Nachteile

To be honest: nothing. In the team we do not understand how we could live before implementing Lokalise.

Vorteile

Everything about Lokalise works well - the translations are spot on (and I am a native speaker of four languages so I can really tell), the UX is well thought out and intuitive, it's fast and the search function especially. One thing I really love is that Lokalise remembers how you chose to translate something, not just the generic translation. The other thing is how easy it is to collaborate across our team.
KUDOS for developing this and we love using your tool. Have recommended it to many others too, and they have been happy.

Nachteile

Please don't change anything - this is an awesome tool and it works perfectly as is!!

Vorteile

This tool facilitates a streamlined localization process amongst admin, translators and reviewers. The workflow fits very well to our needs. The User interface is friendly. Managing big amount of translation data is simple with smart filtering/sorting and extremely importantly the backup. Getting support using the online chat is super efficient. The customer service agent on the other side is polite and always helpful.

Nachteile

This tool works very well for us. Hard to think of anything I don't like. The team behind has done a fantastic job building this.

Vorteile

- simple and easy to use
- export in many formats
- API
- contributor managment customizable for each project
- translation tools integrated

Nachteile

- plan limitation for users in team can sometime be too restrictive if you ave to manage different users per project

Vorteile

nice tool for localized string manager
easy to use api tool

Nachteile

sometime slow in website when searching a key

Vorteile

Ability to choose multiple vendors is great.
Updating text on runtime is great.
Support is great.

Nachteile

Dashboard is harder to get used to and overall is not really easy to use

Vorteile

When trying to localize software, you can delegate the translation duties to anyone capable of doing the translation - be they inside or outside your company. It's simple to use and integrates well into app development and CI/CD workflows!

Nachteile

Tracking and giving permissions to languages in projects with many people doing translations is less than ideal but not a dealbreaker.

Vorteile

- Good UX
- Very good tech onboarding and docs
- Excellent features for mobile developers, translators and for continuous integration
- Excellent customer support
- Good translations api integration.
- Exciting new features to come.

Nachteile

The product is still young but the current quality is already very good.
Some subtle details can still be improved.

Vorteile

Ease of use, super fast and friendly online support.

Nachteile

Can’t remember any, so far I didn’t have any negative experiences

Vorteile

Functionality and support are amazing! There are a lot of useful​ features. Support works 24/7

Nachteile

I like this product, there is nothing that I don't like.

Vorteile

Lokalise is easy to use to share terms with various people involved in a project. It's a cloud system, so we didn't need to implement special software either. We use to manage our terms with Excel, so sharing terms with others were not so easy.

Nachteile

We put tags on each term but as the number of tags used in a project increases, it becomes difficult to find a specific tag from the list.

Vorteile

- good to set up a team.
- nice design
- good integration with GitHub
- good customer support

Nachteile

- GitHub integration needs some effort. It would be nice if it has a one-click solution

Vorteile

It's intuitive and easy to use which makes onboarding our external translators and internal team members super efficient. Several integrations and automations are available. LokaliseAI is easy to implement and integrate into our workflows. Customer Support is fast, reliable and knowledgeable.

Nachteile

Some of the integrations have limitations preventing us from fully taking advantage of them. Using the APIs to integrate tools should be made easier. I wish Lokalise had a robust localization workflow portal (i.e. ticketing system) which allowed teams to submit translation requests and track them in a single place, for all projects.

Vorteile

The Lokalise platform is an easy to use platform, with a fast and easy to use web portal with extensive functionalities. Functionalities like, providing automatically translation suggestions and QA suggestion, speed up the work process and make it a breeze to quickly add a new 'key' to your translations. The extensive CLI tooling als makes it easy to implement the localisation process into your development pipeline.

Nachteile

Lokalise is a bit on the pricy side when you want to have integrations with Figma or have the automatic translation service. You then quickly end up in the more pricier tiers.

Vorteile

My team and I appreciate the flexibilty available in Lokalise's platform. The ability to use a unified glossary and style guide amongst our projects, paired with Lokalise AI for translation, has been a powerful combination for us. We save time and have constantly updated translations.

We found Lokalise very easy to implement, using the out-of-the-box Zendesk integration. It's ideal to have our content constantly synced from Zendesk to Lokalise, so it's ready to be translated with daily updates.

Nachteile

I've had issues with filter logic not working well in my instance. It's a bug that I'm hoping will be resolved, as otherwise the functionality is there!

Vorteile

It's a very easy to learn/use tool. We currently implemented a Figma-to-Lokalise kind of workflow and once we set up the process right (this took a little bit of time haha), now things are running smoothly.

Nachteile

The Figma plugin feels like it's in a very early stages of development. It works great in best case scenarios but there are a lot of unhappy paths that are not considered yet. We'd love to provide a few feature requests to make our life easier :)

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen

Gründe für den Wechsel zu Lokalise

Vorteile

Single source of truth as far as the copy is concerned, single point of access for all people dealing with the text (designers, translators, developers).

Nachteile

Perhaps too much focus on artificial intelligence and integration with figma still somewhat precarious

Vorteile

I like the simplicity of use and the different CLI/integrations that make the tool usable not only in the web app but also in CI/CD environments

Nachteile

Android/iOS integration is not so perfect, especially iOS ones with strings catalog

Vorteile

The core product works quite well, screenshots are helpful for record keeping, for engineers to easily understand where to apply keys.

Nachteile

Sometimes the shortcuts are counter intuitive. The AI beta could be massively improved. Text recognition could be added to extract text from screenshots.

Vorteile

Lokalise makes localization SO easy, even when working with extremely large teams. It's also packed full of features that make managing localizing easy, like SDKs for iOS and Android, easy batch edit tools and integrations with third party apps like Slack so we get notified when new strings are added. The duplicate editor has allowed us to drastically cut down on translation time. Finally, the latest feature we found and love is translation memory which allows us to translate a common word or phrase once and then Lokalise can automatically suggest it in the future.

Nachteile

Sometimes the website can be a bit slow... but we do have thousands of strings so I can't really blame them

Vorteile

I love this service because it is built for software engineers in mind. It supports all the different file formats you might need, works super well with the different languages, great APIs and integration with other services that we use. It's top in the class and pricing is very reasonable. Our translation team loves the product team and for them, it's ease of use and supportive UI that really helps you catch small mistakes. Highly recommend!!

Nachteile

I really like that you can order translations with just a few clicks, but it's hard to know who is translating the text. It would be great if you would have the same person assigned to your project and could directly talk with him.

Vorteile

1. Easy to use
I tried to use a couple of other translation platforms before but Lokalise is the easiest to learn and use. Our open source translators were satisfied as well.

2. Developer friendly
Automatic Github integration, handy upload and download, and other developer friendly features

3. Free for open source projects
Lokalise contributes to the open source ecosystem together offering its wonderful services for free for open source projects. I already recommended Lokalise to other open source projects.

4. Customer services
The customer services are super detailed and fast. Even I'd like to know how the team manages the CS department and educate the team by themselves.

Nachteile

Does not support md(markdown) files, which are one of the most popular extensions to maintain documentation.

Vorteile

Lokalise has a whole range of thought-through features and their support has been outstanding.
We were looking for integrations with Sketch and Github, along with a solid Dashboard and automated translation. We found all these and more features with Lokalise. Also, their online guides and documentation pages are very helpful.

Nachteile

Had some very minor issues at the beginning but the support team solved these in 10 minutes. Overall our experience has been great.

Vorteile

Great features and support
Workflow and task manager fits like a glove with our needs

Nachteile

Couple of minor user interface improvements could be made

Vorteile

The best things about Lokalise are the integration with other tools like Github and Slack, as well as the UI and the access controls. I like how easy it's been to import and export sources and translations to and from our code repositories, and the ease with which we can control who can do what within different languages.

Nachteile

I have very little to complain about. The only thing worth mentioning is sometimes a slight delay because of time zone in getting support when we were first learning how to use it, because we're in Arizona and they're in Latvia. But that's a very minor inconvenience!

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen

Warum Lokalise gewählt wurde

Vorteile

We use it to manage around 8000 keys in 12 different languages.

The service is very easy to use and has a really nice user interface that is joy to work with.

Another helpful feature is the batch support, which allows for managing/updating many translations with just a few mouse clicks.

Furthermore, we use the CLI to fetch the translations and embed them in our React native and Ruby on Rails apps.

Nachteile

Searching of translation keys could be improved at bit by supporting for example wildcard searches, but that's just a minor thing.

Vorteile

The software suggests the translation from the history, google translation and some other places to me. I can just choose one of the right translation or choose one and correct it quickly.

Nachteile

Unfortunately, it is web-based software. I need to connect to the interest to work on it. And my internet connection is ADSL. Therefore, I am preferred offline software.

Vorteile

--Intergration with Github
--API to automate translation process
--Customer support, timely response
--Screenshots for context

Nachteile

--Unsupported file formats
--TM is not context based and not per language
--TM can't be exported in XLS format
--String description is not available with "Allow source key editing" disabled (we do not use "Allow source key editing")
--Performance issues with large files
--Terminology import/export is not available with XLS format
--Some functionality is not user friendly (e.g. too many dependencies, reports are not easy to read)
--word count is confusing

Vorteile

Translators who work for our agency love using Lokalise. UI is very easy to understand and the fact that the clients can add screenshots of where the translated text be visible in their app is a great help as it aids in understanding the context.
It is possible to see in real time the progress of the translation, which is very helpful for the project managers to see the translation progress. Customer service is very fast and questions are answered and resolved quickly.

Nachteile

Depending on the internet connection, it can be a bit slow sometimes, but it does not tend to distract the work.

Vorteile

The app has really reviewed translation workflows and included integrations and tools for all the roles in the team. We can say from integrating this solution with our current web app, that we were astounded by the simplicity the tool connects to the repository, get's the most current keys the developers added and easily pushes changes back to the repository. From a developers perspective this is a dream to use.

The translation tools are also on par with the rest, with multiple views for editing, suggestions from major translation software (e.g. Google Translate) and placeholders support. The design is also nice and friendly and well thought out, allowing for easy understanding without needing to read documentation.

Nachteile

At the time of the review we haven't encountered any issues or discomforts with the solution.

Vorteile

Easy to filter, search and edit keys.
Automation of the localization​ process with translation providers.
Supporting iOS and Android localization files.

Nachteile

Screenshots and description are crucial for the right translation. Drag & drop for a screenshot and description editing would be easier without additional popups on the main project screen.

More flexible rights for members by sharing the payment method. Many of team should order translation by oneself but now it could be done only by members ​with an ​attached credit card.

Vorteile

+ Help to unite and sync your translations
+ Provide good UX/UI
+ Easy to onboard contributors for new languages
+ Rich set of managing the users inside the projects

Nachteile

Its not a cons, but would be great to see and open-source project on GitHub with an example of Android, iOS and web app with lokalise in order to speed up even more the onboarding of dev for this tool.

Vorteile

The ability to add context to translations, either through description or screenshots. The ease of submitting translations for professional review and the options available.

Nachteile

Navigating the translations feels a little tricky sometimes but still significantly better than our previous software.

Vorteile

Ease of use. You can learn how to use Lokalise really fast. A super tool when having an app/ website in different languages. Tool to filter by tag, last update, "untranslated" is super useful.

Nachteile

Some option (non breaking space) could be easier than entering a specific code.

Vorteile

Lokalise is years far ahead from its competitors. It solves every problems we encounter today in mobile apps.
The way to assign specific platforms per translation, the possibility of having different keys per platform, universal placeholders, glossary, translations proposition based on Google Translate and translation memory. Also the API and fastlane actions are helping us improving our continuous intergation system!

Vorteile

Great platform, intuitive UX, powerful API. The automatic text recognition for screen shots has been a life saver, and over the air updates are the icing on the cake.

Vorteile

What I like most about this software are the video tutorials that guide you through each part of the website. The customer service is excellent because they even provide you the opportunity to have a call with them in which they will guide you on how to use the software.
I also enjoy the fact that I can work with my colleagues from other states in my country. The nonprofit I work has two locations in two different states and we have to do a lot of translation services, so this software is excellent.

Nachteile

I could not use it on my phone. I've tried multiple times to scan the QR code to perform my task on the phone but when it reaches to the final stage a message pops up which says "Shake the phone now to open the Lokaalise Debug Menu, and enable Live Mode by toggling the only switch there". However, when I shake my phone nothing happens.