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Transifex vs Localazy: What are the differences?
What is Transifex? GitHub for Translation. Transifex is a cloud-based localization platform built to help you manage the translation and localization of your app, website, video subtitles, and more. It acts as a repository for your content (think GitHub for translation) and includes tools for developers to get that content into Transifex automatically. Transifex also provides translators a web interface to submit translations.
What is Localazy? Easy app translation for developers. Forget all the hassle and make your app available in 80 languages free of charge with translation platform built for app developers.
Transifex and Localazy belong to "Translation Service" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by Transifex are:
- Command-line tool: A Git-like command line tool that lets developers manage translations within a project without an elaborate UI system. They can use the command-line client to create new resources, map locale files to translations, and synchronize their Transifex project with local files and vice versa
- Order translations: Get professional-quality translations in 33 languages
- Reports: See a list of users who have contributed to your projects along with the number of new and edited words each one has translated
On the other hand, Localazy provides the following key features:
- Flavors & Build Types
- App Bundles & Libraries
- Array-lists & Plurals
reddit, Coursera, and commercetools GmbH are some of the popular companies that use Transifex, whereas Localazy is used by Localazy, elision.design, and Floating Apps. Transifex has a broader approval, being mentioned in 43 company stacks & 20 developers stacks; compared to Localazy, which is listed in 3 company stacks and 4 developer stacks.
Pros of Localazy
- Review process6
- OTA updates6
- Android library6
- Gradle integration6
- No manual file handling5
- Improved plurals5
- Instant shared memory for 80+ languages4
- Phrase prioritization4
- Great for small apps4
- No monthly fees for phrase management2
- Core localization features always free2
- Human-assisted neural network translations1
- SDK1
- CLI1
- API1
- OCR Translate1
- Context Screenshots1
- Multiplatform CLI tool1
- Figma Plugin1
Pros of Transifex
- Best customer service1
- Highly technical team1
- Can scale to tens of millions of words1
- Solid API, well-documented1
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Cons of Localazy
Cons of Transifex
- App is the source of truth2