POEditor

Avantages

Choosing POEditor for our open-source project has been a game-changer, especially given its generous free access for open-source projects. The platform's user-friendly interface and seamless collaboration tools have made the localization process a breeze for our team and streamlined multilingual content management.

One standout feature we absolutely love is the use of tags. The ability to organize localization through tags and export them for use as namespaces with i18n has proven to be a game-changer. It adds a layer of flexibility and granularity to our localization strategy, allowing us to manage and deploy translations with a level of precision that aligns seamlessly with our project's needs.

Inconvénients

One thing that's worth mentioning is the inability to manually order translation keys. While it might not be a dealbreaker for everyone, our project occasionally requires a precise organization of keys, and this limitation has posed a minor challenge. It's a nuance that we've learned to work around, but it's something to consider, especially if your project heavily relies on meticulous key sequencing.

Alternatives envisagées 

Weglot et CrowdinOpens in a new tab

Pourquoi passer à POEditor

In exploring various localization tools for our open-source project, we encountered several options, each with its own set of features and drawbacks. Crowdin, Transifex and Weglot caught our attention and were considered, but the cost for our project's scale was a concern when we took into consideration our team size, number of keywords and/or localizations. Ultimately, we chose POEditor for its winning combination of cost-effectiveness, user-friendly design, and unique features. POEditor not only met our financial considerations but also provided the versatility and collaborative tools necessary for efficient localization management. It struck the right balance, making it the ideal choice for our open-source project.

Avantages

It's practical to translate strings, source text can't be changed, so you don't have to worry you'll erase something in it.

Inconvénients

You have to wait until it saves a string, maybe it would be better if there was a button "Save." Also, you don't know if everything was saved correctly, don't know if there's an option to see that.

Avantages

POEditor is easy to use, gives you translation suggestions and allows others to contribute to translating your app by either an invite based system or just by allowing anyone to edit it.
Nice API to use programs that allow you to integrate it with for example Gradle so you can easily update the language translations of your app.
You can import and export transitions in many file formats, so they are easy to implement in your product, like Android XML and PO.

Inconvénients

No option as far as I know to, after allowing everyone to translate your project, exclude specific languages from being edited by someone else. For example, I only want to edit the English translation myself and not allow anyone else to change that.
It has quite a steep price increase above the free tier, especially if you are using it for relatively small, not very high profit (open source) apps.

Avantages

POEditor manager to always show the right data on screen, e.g. how much percentage is translated for your language. This helps keeping me motivated to finalize the translations and get to that fabulous 100%.

Another thing I really like is the UI/UX for adding translations. It really helps with keeping the focus on context and translating and doesn't distract you from what you are doing.

Inconvénients

The credit system for automated translations. While our product needs translations in a specific context, I can understand that for others it could be very annoying.

Avantages

It easily supports many languages and adding a new language is pretty fast

Inconvénients

The pricing is not flexible enough, and there is no enough transparency in translation deployment

Avantages

Uso a versão gratuita, mas enquanto utilizei a premium, tive acesso a traduções automáticas e sugestões muito acertivas, baseadas em outras traduções ou em um banco de dados próprio.

Inconvénients

Não existem atalhos como TAB para passar para a proxima tradução, não tem ferramenta de "replace" ou edição em lote, para pesquisar uma palavras e trocar todas palavras correspondentes. Após definir a linguagem de referencia, não consegui mais achar mais a opção para trocá-la.

Avantages

La facilidad de uso, la rapidez en su uso y la claridad de los temas.

Inconvénients

Lo que me resulta más laborioso es acceder a nuevos trabajos. NO me resulta fácil incorporar nuevos proyectos (quizás porque no sé utilizarlo correctamente). Luego, como generalmente traduzco “catalán”, el buscar esta lengua tampoco resulta sencillo, ya que aparece (creo recordar) con ES.ca o similar.

Avantages

POEditor is very easy to learn and use. Search and filter functions are very intuitive.

Inconvénients

This is not a major con but the UI could be in my native language.