What is Weblate?
Weblate is a libre software web-based continuous localization system used by over 1150+ opensource projects & companies in over 115+ countries around the World.
Weblate is a tool in the Translation Service category of a tech stack.
Weblate is an open source tool with 4.5K GitHub stars and 999 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Weblate's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Weblate?
Companies
7 companies reportedly use Weblate in their tech stacks, including Labs, Everything, and Yintrust.
Developers
17 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Weblate.
Weblate Integrations
GitHub, Google Analytics, GitLab, Bitbucket, and Sentry are some of the popular tools that integrate with Weblate. Here's a list of all 7 tools that integrate with Weblate.
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Decisions about Weblate
Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Weblate in their tech stack.
Howie Zhao
Full Stack Engineer at yintrust · | 1 upvote · 3.2K views
We use Weblate for translation and calibration.
Weblate is currently the open source localization platform with the most stars.
Weblate's Features
- Continuous localization - connect to your VCS repository and bring translators closer to the development
- Quality checks - ensure the translations meet your quality requirements
- 20+ file formats - gettext, Xliff, JSON, Android, iOS, RESX and much more
- Glossary - built in glossary to ensure consistent terminology within a translation
- Machine translation - use third party machine translation services to bootstrap your translation
- Translation memory - built in translation memory to speed up localization process
- REST API and cli - integrate with your workflow or third party services
Weblate Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Weblate?
Transifex
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.
Crowdin
Crowdin is localization management software enchanced by AI for teams. Translate your apps, websites, games, documentation, marketing campaigns, and other content into 100+ languages. Create a native experience for your global customers.
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Git
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
GitHub
GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.
