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What Is Lokalise?

Lokalise is the fastest-growing translation management platform with a clean and clear UI/UX and adequate pricing, trusted by thousands of companies worldwide.

Being true multi-platform, Lokalise allows agile teams to translate all of their digital assets in one place: web and mobile apps, games, other software, marketing and other documents.

Lokalise works best for companies aiming to achieve a shorter time to market, a reduction of costs, as well as automation of all repetitive tasks.

Who Uses Lokalise?

Teams developing their own or 3rd parties' mobile and web apps in different languages and looking for well-thought-out features for software developers, i.e. powerful API, CLI, mobile SDKs, and more.

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Reviews of Lokalise

Average score

Overall
4.8
Ease of Use
4.8
Customer Service
4.9
Features
4.8
Value for Money
4.7

Reviews by company size (employees)

  • <50
  • 51-200
  • 201-1,000
  • >1,001

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5
87%
4
11%
3
2%
Robert
Robert
Core Contributor in US
Verified LinkedIn User
Computer Software, 1,001–5,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

So easy, even at extreme scale

5.0 5 years ago

Comments: 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.

Pros:

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.

Cons:

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

Verified Reviewer
Verified LinkedIn User
Religious Institutions, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 1-5 months
Reviewer Source

Alternatives Considered:

Comprehensive Solution for a Translation Workflow

5.0 5 years ago

Comments: We are managing all our strings with this solution We are translating into 3 different languages (e.g. English, German and Romanian). The benefits we have realized lies first of in dissolving one bottleneck of passign all the translated strings through our development team. Now our managers and translators handle all the strings and formulations, and the devs focus on other tasks.

Pros:

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.

Cons:

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

Tatiana
Sr. Localization Product Manager in US
Information Technology & Services, 1,001–5,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

Review for Lokalise

3.0 5 years ago

Pros:

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

Cons:

--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

Geza
IT Help Desk Engineer in Germany
Computer Software, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 1-5 months
Reviewer Source

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Great tool for collaborative localization

5.0 5 years ago

Comments: My team is really satisfied with Lokalise. It is a dream compared to our old tool and their support is really responsive.

Pros:

- dashboard - easy to use - collaboration features - translation suggestions are really helpful

Cons:

- GitHub integration is a bit complicated

Jonathan
CEO in Spain
Computer Software, 2–10 Employees
Used the Software for: Free Trial
Reviewer Source

Great location platform!

5.0 5 years ago

Comments: We were looking for a tool to manage all our translations for our Apps and Lokalise surprised us. In a few hours we have imported our projects and the export to iOS and Android is fast and easy.
Let's move on to the payment plan because it's worth it.

Pros:

- It's very easy to import and export. - Automatic language detection when importing all files. - Grammar checking is very useful. - Perfect for App developers. - Multiple format support (excel, csv...) - Group keys by a specific tag or file.

Cons:

* We miss being able to see all the QA's and warnings without having to create a specific filter for all of them. * We have not yet discovered how to ignore the header (first lines) of a CSV or Excel file.