Lokalise Reviews

I like best how Lokalise has a very user-friendly interface that makes it easy for a team of non-technical translators to collaborate. As a manager of the project most everything works the way I'd expect, and my contributors have been able to learn pretty quickly how to use it.

I have no big complaints. I suppose if I had to reach for something, the thing that I sometimes am frustrated by is the time-zone difference between us (in Arizona, US) and the Lokalise support staff (in Latvia), such that if we have a question late in the day we usually need to wait til the next morning for help. But, this is a very minor concern.

Shop around and see what works best for your workflow, but I did so with several other systems and Lokalise is hands-down the best at doing what we need, plus they have been very helpful with support and non-profit discounting.

At Freecycle we've been able to very quickly integrate our new web application's translation code and data with Lokalise in a pretty painless way. We are a low-budget charity non-profit with lots of volunteers and Lokalise helps us to leverage the efforts of volunteer translators, as well as easily farm out some of the translation work to paid-for translators. Also I really appreciate how the integration with Github allows me to deploy the translation right into new releases of our code very easily.

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.

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

Previously, localization was a situation in which our teams would constantly step on each others toes, trying to use Google Sheets to coordinate with each other and developers. It just never worked well and we wasted so much time on it until we found Lokalise. Now, translators can see what text is being edited in real time and work together to ensure the most correct translations.

I really like Lokalise because I feel like they are genuinely trying to make the best translation management system possible. They already have a great product but are constantly adding new features and are really interested in hearing our feedback and suggestions. It's been amazing how much new functionality they've managed to implement in the past 6 months including some developments put in specially for us. The support is absolutely fantastic - they get back to you straight away and they all really know what they are talking about.

I have found a couple of bugs but the engineers have been able to fix them incredibly quickly (like in 40 minutes) so this hasn't been a big problem.

Lokalise has solved a huge number of problems for us. The review settings, filters, adjustable access rights and general user friendliness of the product has allowed us to implement a process for translation and clinical review where translators and reviewers can manage their own workflows and keep content translated without having to be constantly managed and monitored. The previous system we used was so confusing that I ended up spending hours training each translator up, sending them guides , answering questions, fixing their mistakes - Lokalise is much more intuitive which has a been a huge help

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.

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

Speak with their customer-support team via the chat-feature on the website. They are extremely helpful and will be able to help you.

We've been able to implement clear, simple processes and improve the quality of the translation and localisation of our apps and websites.

- Support updating texts in mobile apps on the fly without having to release new app versions

- Easy to use, very detailed and feature-rich SDKs for iOS and Android and Dashboard Website

- Very fast response on support and especially technical support. I once worked with one of their engineers to debug some bugs in their Android SDK. And they released a new SDK version 5 minutes after that.

- Offer various options for translation service, with different professional levels.

- My team and I personally find Lokalise really helpful, nothing really to complain.

Really recommended if you want some easy to use, feature-rich and great customer support service for Localization

Our issues with localization and translation before Lokalise:

- We were having issues with managing all texts in our Android and iOS apps for about 10 languages. Plus managing translations for that many languages for 2 platforms was a pain.

- Whenever we have text changes no matter how minor, we needed to to release a new version.

Benefits that Lokalise brings to our team:

- All texts and translations in one place, no more copy-pasting translated text to the original texts.

- Now we can update texts (most of them) remotely without having to release a new app update. This is a huge advantage.

- Save us a lot of time for managing, cleaning up texts/translations, communicating back and forth with Translators.

The simplicity and power of Lokalise makes it a great tool. It's simple enough for non-technical translators to use and has a great range of features and integrations.

There's not much I don't like about Lokalise, but if I was forced to pick one I'd say the limited number of seats per price plan can make it difficult to run multiple project. a quick message to support can fix this tho.

read the docs, if you can't find what you're looking for the support are really helpful.

We work with a remote client who use multiple Translations providers. Having strings centralised in Lokalise removes the need to share zipped xliff or xml exports via email. Lokalise has powerful integrations which have helped transform our workflow from an agonisingly manual to 100% automated.

We like the easy integration, the glossary function to keep the consistency in all languages, the machine translation support, the well working QA and general filter option and , last but not least, the statistics, that help us paying each of the 50 translators what he or she has worked on precisley.

The statistics are not working with firefox, I need to switch to chrome every time.

Could be easier to add a new contributor to all of your projects. I handle 11 projects and, currently, I have to add a new contributor to every single one.

it is the best I've seen so far

Android App localisation. We have a improved overview, better workflows and more technical opportunities than before.

I love that we can update content in near-real-time. Also, the Lokalise team is constantly working to improve the tool so there always are useful new features that make my job easier.

Nothing really. The only thing I would suggest is perhaps improving the way team members are added. Currently, when I add a new person, I need to add them to each project - takes a bit of time. Would be great if I could do it in one place - just check the projects the team member has access to. Or, even better, if they are a "super admin", they could automatically get access to all projects.

For us as a fast-moving startup, updating content in real-time is very important because deadlines and requirements constantly change. With Lokalise, we no longer have to postpone releases or do hotfixes just because the content needs updating.

The translation memory and glossary features are excellent resources and are really easy to use. The support team are great and the ability to manage strings by project is a nice feature. The integrated transtion services from external vendors is a really clean and easy-to-use process and the prices back and standard of translation are great.

Nothing, everything works as expected and if I was ever stuck with a question or query the support team were able to respond quickly and effectively. The online help cetnre is also good.

Give it a try if you are looking for a way to manage strings in several languages, or looking for a more cost-effective way to get strings translated.

It is now much faster for us to get translations live on our website and the process of requesting and paying for translations is much smoother. There is also greater visibility within the business on the status of translated strings.

Their support team is top notch. You get immediate response for any queries.

The web platform to configure the localisations is brisk once you understand the flow. They have great customizations and integrations. Works seamlessly with ease.

Documentation of the framework, updated tutorials to use the platform, improved team payment system will be good to have.

Try it out for localisations and save time!

Localising the whole app. One platform to get all localisations done saves a lot of development time.

It supports changing of text dynamically, which is great as we don't need to update the app.

How easy it is to work with multiple people at the same time. Our devs add the keys, our designers review them, and we have multiple people from multiple translations companies and internal people translating our content. Seems like a nightmare, but Lokalise makes it super easy and organized.

You can run out of "seats" (people who have access to the tool) quite fast. We have to audit it every now and then so we can keep only the necessary people for that time.

Their support team is fantastic. If you have any doubts ask them, it will make your life easier.

Consistent translations to all our apps, and easy use by devs, designers, translator and project managers.

Intuitive UX and detailed user interface. Easy to add more teammates or translators to work under several translations at once.

nothing found to dislike. Were looking hard for any weak sides, but nope. It's just right!

Try it and it will see why I am so happy to use it.

We have a huge catalogue of works and services that has to be translated on dozens of languages as our customers and freelancers are spread over the world. So, we don't have to build a tricky hierarchy inside our own app and spent months to support it as our catalogue grows. We keep all the keys inside Lokalise and sleep well.

Extensive features accessible through a straightforward (and beautiful) UI.

Very easy set up and integration into the workflow.

Users (Translators) need none to very little training to start working with lokalise.

Organizing translator teams and creating and assigning tasks works great.

The lokalise website is really fast and responsive, working there has the feel of a native application.

So far we haven't found anything to dislike...

The people at lokalise are super friendly and helpful so if you have any questions or doubts just get in contact with them.

Translating sentences in seven languages for an mobile application. Providing updates and additions to these translations.

Possibility to add extra context (screenshots, glossary, description, comments) for a smoother translation process

Option to chat about a specific key via the comments

Easily create tasks by pre-filtering the scope of the task

Translation suggestions based on your translation history/translation services

Super friendly customer service

The tool is improving constantly, sometimes there are some things that are missing that would save me time but when reporting these issues, they are often times already working on it to fix it.

We looked for a new translation tool because we want to improve consistency over different projects. The possibility to add context was also missing from our previous tool. Lokalise greatly improved our translation process.

- It's very easy to onboard new people as the tool is self explaining

- the developer documentations are up to date and for our devs it was very easy to implement

- the live edit view feature helps our product marketing to adjust text in context of the site and app.

- it would be very nice to have feature branches or release branches so we would be able to steer what translations go live and which not. we can do it by tagging but it would be cool to have something more reliable maybe connected to our github branches

Translations can be done by every one also outside of the company . it just needs an invite. not really needed a big onboarding as the tool is very self explaining. the statistics allows an overview to see where translations are missing.

UI is very intuitive, everything is clear from the first glance. The onboarding part is smooth as well. Like that you can get the translation update nearly in real time.

Lokalise have good cooperation with other translation services, which are integrated into the service.

The good thing is that you can get the answer to your question from the support really fast.

For the moment I like nearly everything.

We are experimenting with going to the different markets with our app, so the translations are really important for us.

- Easy to use platform

- Great and super fast support

- New useful features every month

- Pretty good voting system for new features and adjustments

- Whole team loves it

- No support for nested json structures

- API is slow from China and gets a bit slow overall with 13k+ keys

Saving everyones time by giving the translators full control of their translations

Web API to make integrations easy and fast and clear responses in their support. Webhooks on data changes from the Lokalise web application are as well a great feature.

In lag of any real issues I could mention a couple of bugs in the APIs. But it's really nothing unexpected.

We manage translations for Android, iOS and backend applications through a simple and intuitive web application. It makes us work faster and react to change almost instantly.

Very well designed, easy to use, simple, good integrations, responsive & helpful support including making improvements and a reasonable pricing model

To date I nor my team have found anything we dislike about the product!

The manage of translations of our software projects including websites, apps, emails in more than 20 languages with at least 30 translators

Engineers like it. As for me, I think the best part is history logs of changing the translation (which is better from the ux point of view compared to the spreadsheet that we used before). And very helpful support team!

UX of linking the keys is not very obvious, TM editor is better in some other CAT tools

If you are managing your translations in a spreadsheet, definitely do try it

Lokalise saves us ton of time on managing translations + helps make them more consistent.

The nice UI. It feels fresh and is easy to work in. Fantastic support that answers quickly and helps me with any issue I might run into. Otherwise it does what a TMS is supposed to do. And does it well.

Some features I took for granted are locked in our current plan. But you get what you pay for I guess :)

Continuous translations! We didn't have anything when I joined the company. I chose Lokalise, very happy and it hasn't disappointed me yet :)

Lokalise is a complex yet intuitive tool which helped us manage translations we used to use excel sheets for.

Some notification functionality which would notify us automatically about new words & edits

Localisation and their production was not scalable before using Lokalise.

It's simple and complex.

* create keys from page

* add screenshots

* tags

* batch process

* team management

* download options

* sdk integrations

Its hard to filter the languages one by one on the project view

The only platform that allows you to create keys

distribute our application and web pages to several countries

Unification, agregation of all translations at one place. Good integration with our custom webstore. User friendly interface. Flexibilty.

Filter of translation projects is poor, i can not sort or filter the projects by date etc.

Language localisation of content of a webstore in 36 countries. Database of eccomerce phrases used in webstores.

I like the option to export to both platforms. Translators can work very fast and it is really enhance our performance.

Still the process to test things for the translators is not easy. We need to find workarounds.

To have different strings per customer.

This is a modern tool, so all functions I expected was there. This made our translation process so much more efficient.

That we as a big company had to pay with credit card when choosing the Lite version and monthly payment.

Make sure to use Lokalise if you want an efficent translation process! In other words, use it. I can highly recommend it.

We are translating an app from English into 17 languages, to iOS and android smartphones.

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.

Depending on the volume of the keys and internet connection, it can be a bit slow sometimes.

Localisation process is much quicker and the clients are satisfied with the result.

How easy it is to change a string. And also I liked the support team, specially your android support-dev!

I don't like that I have to build every time I make a change. I wish it was a single button that appears everytime I make a change (like a build and deploy button).

If you have any questions, feel free to contact the support team. They are super responsive.

to update strings, without updating the app.

The many translations options (Google Translate, Bing), so it gives the translator an easy way to cross compare what he had in mind, with what these systems think the translation should look like.

The lack of versioning, it'd be great if there was a way to mark a version 1 or snapshot of the project

You won't regret a thing!

My patients can finally see their diets and metrics in their own language

easy to use, real time text update via SDK without the need for coding

A+ customer support

sometimes UX is not intuitive

support for Hebrew is not 100%

do not understand the restriction for number of developer as more people use lokalize the biggest chance we will scale

workflow - hard to sync the develops-designer-copy writer on the platform

no need to upload new version to the store to update text

Having tried a large number of similar services stopped at lokalise. Incredibly convenient functionality! Work with a large amount of data as comfortable as possible.

The work of technical support at height. Always help!

Difficult to answer. All "bad" moments are decided in the technical support chat and are corrected. Just magic!

Control a large number of translations in different languages. Automatic upload of translations.

The UX of the web plateform is really great to optimize our time for app translation.

For the moment, nothing, we are a the beginning of the usage and everything seems ok.

Try it first, you will get it!

Our first interest in Lokalize was the time saving with the tool for our internal translating team. And I think it is enough to justify using Lokalize...

that text in the app is changed without updating the app

filling out the same build information on lokalise , whenever I build

saves the tech team's time

- CLI integration

- Ability to have context descriptions and screenshots

- See how many keys are missing from each language

- Order amount visible at the dashboard makes it confusing for our customers

- Unifying our translations

- Having our customers adding translations themselves

The interface to support multiple languages, and you can even upload screenshots and tag the position of a given key

I haven't had a problem yet. So I'm just filling this in to go to the next section

I've got an open source project that has traction in over 4 countries of different languages, so Lokalise is a God sent for us

I like how easy it is to use the system. Tracking the progress of translation is really helpful and gives an idea on when the translation will be completed. Any clarifying questions about the source text can be asked directly to the client by using the chat option.i really like that the client has an option to add screenshots, which helps to see where the translation will be within the wider context.

Sometimes the machine translation suggestions are not very accurate

The communication between the translator and client is much more efficient due to the inbuilt chat option.

Auto suggesting from several engines like google and yandex

Lack of support for icu-messaging (syntax highlight is not enough)

Try to use it - it's very easy

Translate app to other languages with help of native speakers not from out company.

The workflow allows speedy translations as the UI is intuitive and can be completely keyboard driven which is important when doing a large number of translations.

Had some problem initially with the API but with support got it working.

We need the ability to provide an easy ui for our translators to log into and use and an API that can sync the translations with our application automatically and this software does all we need.

It's very easy to manage the translations and export them

It should have an extra cheaper entry plan for small projects

Manage the translations of the project in a single local

Ability to translate the copies into multiple languages and conveniently download them as bundles

There is no way to delete the payment method from the platform other than to write in support

We translated our application into 2 foreign languages and started to sell the product internationally.

Great features like live preview on the web

If you use your default language as a keys, you don't have an option to see only the key (original language) and the language you are translating

Growing internationally and solving translations to multiple languages

The screenshots of the mobile app or website are shown right besides every strings / words giving out the context. OCR Automatically links them.

The OCR which recognizes strings from the uploaded screenshots is not that strong and misses many words.

Managing Multiple languages in mobile app,

Benefits - screenshots give context to the words, better accuracy

- Regular feedback on improving process internally

- Tech support

- UI is fabulous

- Great chat support

- Like the tagging system

- Need more time to come up with dislikes

Easy to use

- improving the localization process internally

- Having a common repository to save man-hours spent on translations

The reactivity of the support and the acceptation of extend my trial.

Actually nothing, except that you ask a little too much of characters :p

maybe you can create a student plan/open source plan.

I can do my defense for my class now :)

- speed of reaction on tech issues and support

- ease of integration

- customer oriented

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- mobile and web localization on the fly

- multi-team localization management

- separation of localization process from development

This tool checks all the boxes I have for a translation management tool. Great UI, features, integrations and support.

Nothing at this point. Why do you need 40 chars here?

Translating stuff

The integration service and the recommendations based on other translations. Customer support

Not giving support on some third party services.

Managing translations with the rest of the team and keeping them organised

The general user friendliness of the site. It looks simple enough, but it is full of features

The chat feature per key, and for the organization, I mean it makes sense, but at some point, I missed a comment due to it being placed out of my current scope

Localization for all my platforms

We run a pharmaceutical company that has many internal apps, it has made easy the localizations of our apps

I found the library for app integrations a bit lacking

We think it's pretty straightforward to use it without the libraries, and just download the localization files directly

localization of our workplace internal apps

The robust CMS and convenient OTA Localisation

Although complex, the language codes could have better support.

OTA Localisation. Our mobile app product requires a new release whenever there's content change. Our efforts were cut by half now as we only need to do one change for both platforms.