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out of 5"Not only the possibility to translate text, but also possible to show different images on different websites, thanks to Transifex."
"We also really like how the translation database helps speed up your translations AND keep track of the usage of strings, so you can keep your terms consistent."
"Transifex has most features of other platforms like Phrase, Smartling, Lozalize, and Crowdin. It's interface is nice to look at."
"The main thing I dislike is that any word is counted as many times as there are languages for its project, even if it's not translated into some of them. That seriously affects our word limit."
"Word limitations are a real problem because you constantly need to upgrade your subscription while growing your business."
"Can be very slow sometimes, has very limited functionality for searching terms, no filtering options, no real TM management."
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Omar
Verified reviewer
Company size: 51-200 employees
Industry: Non-Profit Organization Management
Time used: Less than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.
April 2021
A great platform for your translation needs
As discribed with the most thing i loved about the platform, the communication and live work between the team members, as the platform can let you know who is working on what to prevent duplication and track good progress, and it does it in a beautiful way, even team members that were non tech were able to understand the UI/UX what it was trying to tell them (although my team was not even English proficient)
Pros
What i liked the most about transifex is how it can seamlessly integrate with any of our platform for integration, where other platforms failed at. We were using complex translations that includes right to left writing scripts and even languages that are quite tricky to translate including arabic, pashto, urdu, kurmanji and sourani, most of these language are near extinct and Transifex did handle these perfectly on our platforms.
Cons
The platform was sluggish beginning of 2015 now it's much seamless and fluid, really no cons in it so far, it's continuously improved.
Reasons for choosing Transifex
It was the only product at that time that can provide seamless translations and integrations, and the best one to respond to my usecases.
Yaron
Company size: 11-50 employees
Industry: Retail
Time used: More than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
May 2019
A great UI but requires some more work
It's great in terms of freely available translation platform, might be a little rough in the edges but will certainly fulfill every standard requirement for a vast amount of projects, especially web platforms, this is definitely my go to platform when I need to establish a new open source project.
Pros
Well, it's definitely one of the best options around, the wide range of files supported, the very intuitive design, the fact that you can open as much open source projects as you like, the admin tools, everything is just working, pretty fast.
Cons
Lack of attention to small details, there are many loose ends, some small bugs that were not taken care of for the past few years, might need some improvement from the agile side, new features are pretty rare at least when you consider it from my workflow, all the interesting integration are pretty new, most other platforms had these kind of integrations for many years now, open source friendly yet not entirely open source, mobile interface is pretty bad, might need some additional care in terms of standard support.
Anonymous
Company size: 2-10 employees
Time used: More than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.
April 2021
Too slow for daily use
Disappointing. It's looks great and offers promise but the overall execution is not where it needs to be.
Pros
Transifex has most features of other platforms like Phrase, Smartling, Lozalize, and Crowdin. It's interface is nice to look at. But boy is it SLOW. Clicking on something means I can go get my coffee and come back. This is true of the entire software, and it's maddening on every level. I try to use their command line tools so I don't have to use the interface, but even that is slow if you have a lot of files to work with. For instance, I push/pull source updates and translations using the CLI and it takes FOREVER.
Cons
Slowness, lack of improvements. The customer support will answer you quickly but all they will tell you is that what you want is not possible and it's on the roadmap. I've been using their software for a number of years -- I guarantee you everything you want is on the horizon but you'll never reach it.
Reasons for choosing Transifex
Implemented this for a client request but regret it.

Response from Transifex
Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback with us. We are sorry to see you had a bad experience with Transifex. For the description you give on the performance, it is something not reported by other users and definitely not expected. Let's try to find the root cause of the issue and provide a solution. Please send us a mail at support@transifex.com and we'll do our best to serve your needs.
Replied April 2021
Vladimir
Company size: 51-200 employees
Industry: Individual & Family Services
Time used: More than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.
April 2021
A powerful must have tool for a localization team
Happy to work with this tool.
Pros
Great support. Fantastic TM engine. Intuitive user interface. Slack integration.
Cons
The main thing I dislike is that any word is counted as many times as there are languages for its project, even if it's not translated into some of them. That seriously affects our word limit.
Duncan
Company size: 51-200 employees
Industry: Media Production
Time used: More than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.
April 2021
Transifex multiplies our impact
Transifex has been responsive to our technical asks, supportive of our translator community, and reliable in its uptime and availability, not blocking our development flow (which has been an issue with other vendors). Top marks across the board. It's easy to harp on stuff that doesn't work, but Transifex has barely even toed that line. Props to your team on providing infrastructure that Just Works.
Pros
Transifex' mature command-line tools coupled with a robust web portal help Plex deliver a rich, localized experience for users across web, TV, and embedded platforms.
Cons
Better support and guidance for "weird" (eg, non-English) translation scenarios would be fantastic. In many of the cases where we're "asking" for help, it would be great to have been proactively provided with platform-compatible approaches.
Sergio Vinícius de
Verified reviewer
Company size: 201-500 employees
Industry: Financial Services
Time used: More than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.
October 2020
Simple, effective and practical
I love it. it makes my life as developer way easier. We have products using it and products not using it yet, and the ones without transifex are always a pain to maintain translations. We have plans to move all our products to it. Also, the features they provide if you want to hire third-party translators are quite useful.
Pros
Using transifex improves a lot developer experience as we don't have to deal with it on the code, and we are able to focus on building other features instead. It's quite easy to configure and has a very useful CLI, which is super helpful since we can also easily integrate in our CI/CD pipeline. The documentation is also very well built.
Cons
It would be nice to fetch the translation files from transifex directly instead of having them all hosted in our applications. I believe this will be possible with transifex native, but I've applied to get a view on it, and am still waiting for a response since 2 months already.
Toni
Company size: 201-500 employees
Industry: Information Technology and Services
Time used: More than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.
April 2021
Good but gets expensive fast
Pros
Very easy to set up and manage. Good UI. Good translation tool for non-technical translators.
Cons
The cost climb is very steep. It is becoming more cost-beneficial for our company to develop our own solution to manage translation than to use this product. We have stopped adding more of our product portfolio in to this system.
Reasons for choosing Transifex
At the time, relatively cheap.
Reasons for switching to Transifex
Hard to maintain and use.
Eitan
Company size: 1 employee
Industry: Computer Software
Time used: Less than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
November 2016
Excellent translation experience
I've used this service mostly as a translator, who wanted to add my own language to an existing translation project. Can't attest as a project owner...
Pros
Great translation experience as a translator, it's really fun to see how translation work quickly propagates into a running product and improves users' experience. Glossaries, translation history, discussion forums, machine translation, and great UX - provide all the support needed in order to properly translate a project.
Cons
A global "search and replace" feature could be nice.

Marie A.
Verified reviewer
Company size: 51-200 employees
Industry: Internet
Time used: Less than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.
September 2019
Transifex
We eventually decided to switch to another platform with lower price and better functionality.
Pros
Transifex is ok: not the best and not the worst software for translations. Some features are overly complicated to use, but overall it is ok.
Cons
Pricing, value for the money and not being able to find strings easily/copy translations between projects.
Anonymous
Company size: 2-10 employees
Time used: More than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
April 2019
Transifex review
Translations for MATE desktop project
Pros
-Helps a lot to translate our project. - Transifex support a lot of languages
Cons
- Nothing - all good - excellent - pretty well
Melanie
Company size: 201-500 employees
Industry: Telecommunications
Time used: Less than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.
October 2020
A good TMS system with lots of potencial
Transifex has helped us scale our localization process efficiently. It offers all the basics of a TMS system and has a lot of potentials. I would suggest working on your customer's pain point more efficiently to increase customer success.
Pros
Translation memory Search strings feature Possibility to connect to other vendor's API Integrations
Cons
Word limitations are a real problem because you constantly need to upgrade your subscription while growing your business. Difficulty in resolving bugs fast. Updates and system upgrades or suggestions are implemented slowly.
Laurence
Company size: 5,001-10,000 employees
Industry: Telecommunications
Time used: More than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.
April 2021
Transifex review
Our engineer likes the automation piece but from the translation perspective, it is not the best tool for sure, especially with the lack of TM priority list, lack of leveraging/reusing comments when needed...
Pros
it is available on the web so linguists don't have to install anything
Cons
Can be very slow sometimes, has very limited functionality for searching terms, no filtering options, no real TM management. Also hard to use and see all the info (context, concordance...) from a laptop (small screen). Very cumbersome tool from manager perspective as the team concept makes it hard to use more than one vendor per project per language.
Reasons for choosing Transifex
automation of source files update
Reasons for switching to Transifex
We still use Passolo for some of our products that don't need to be updated weekly and specific file types but developers wanted something with a plug-in to automate weekly updates so upper management implemented Transifex because it was reasonably priced at the time.
Sara
Company size: 11-50 employees
Industry: Entertainment
Time used: More than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.
April 2021
My experience with Transifex.
It has been a great experience since we work with people all over the world. It helps keep a simple hub for all of our translation needs.
Pros
This software is easy to use and easy to get the hang of. It's also very accessible for anyone who needs to work on projects.
Cons
The UI isn't always the most intuitive. Some things take a little trial and error to figure out where some things go. (But once you have, it's fairly easy). I wish there was a way to group projects and hide archived projects as well.
Frank
Company size: 11-50 employees
Industry: Hospital & Health Care
Time used: Less than 12 months
Review Source: Capterra
July 2016
Transifex works within our company!
We've been using Transifex for over 6 months now and are very content with the usability of Transifex with our apps and websites. Our websites and apps work in 4 different languages at the moment and Transifex helps us to switch from one language to another.
Pros
User experience: Fast & simple interface, very easy to translate big chunks of text. Memory of previously translated texts, so no double input. Fast implementation: Publish a new part on your website and the update shows in seconds. Very easy to use platform, to translate with a simple, but intuitive interface. Not only the possibility to translate text, but also possible to show different images on different websites, thanks to Transifex!
Cons
Nothing comes to mind. Transifex works like it should work!
Dan
Verified reviewer
Company size: 1 employee
Industry: Information Technology and Services
Time used: More than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
May 2019
Good collaboration tool for translating software UIs
We use transifex to translate the user interface of the popular free video editor Shotcut. It is an international team of volunteers mostly whom I have never met.
Pros
The service has a command line utility that can be integrated with build systems and processes. I also very much like the integration with GItHub to automatically retrieve the changes. Lastly, it has good support for Qt projects.
Cons
I find the user interface for handling raised issues a confusing. It is a combination of "Comments" and "Review" with no clear way to mark issues as resolved without marking the translation as "Reviewed." I most often am able to answer the question in the issue raised, but I am not qualified to indicate if a translation is correct by marking it as reviewed.
TOBIAS
Company size: 11-50 employees
Industry: Information Technology and Services
Time used: More than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.
November 2020
Solid team features!
I would say very very positive. When we had a quality-issue with one of the external translators, the Transifex team helped us to solve it quickly and professionally. Very happy with that kind of service from a SaaS company!
Pros
We really liked how easy it is to let users collaborate on the same set of translations. We also really like how the translation database helps speed up your translations AND keep track of the usage of strings, so you can keep your terms consistent.
Cons
The project setup is quite complicated and hidden deep inside the tool which makes it hard to find. This is your best feature, guys, make it more prominent!
Reasons for choosing Transifex
team collaboration and workflow integration.
Samer
Company size: 51-200 employees
Industry: Computer Software
Time used: Less than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.
November 2020
Probably the best TMS
Overall I have enjoyed and frankly depend on Transifex for smooth handling of all localizations for my applications.
Pros
Integrating with Transifex is an ease and the online tools are quite easily the best in its class. The CLI utility makes it easy to build and integrate into any toolchain.
Cons
Branch support seems a bit lacking overall. I would like some way to manage strings across branches without creating additional resources.
Bruno
Company size: 51-200 employees
Industry: Computer Software
Time used: More than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.
April 2021
Keep your site localized with minimum effort
Pros
New strings appearing on the website are automatically pulled from Transifex. This allows keeping the new website content properly localized even if it changes frequently.
Cons
The javascript API and the WordPress plugin can be buggy sometimes.
Jorge
Company size: 51-200 employees
Industry: Utilities
Time used: Less than 12 months
Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered
February 2019
Good for remote translations management
Pros
It's easy to setup and start working on translation
Cons
The UI it's a little outdated and sometimes the responsiveness of the overall system is a little slow
Oleksandr
Company size: 2-10 employees
Industry: Information Technology and Services
Time used: Less than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
March 2019
The leader of translation services
We translated more than 70000 words on 6 languages. For Web, IOS, Android
Pros
- I like UI, it's really comfortable - CLI for Windows is good. - Autoupdate - A speed of translation - when your documents could be translated with 10 people the same time no matter if it's a day or night now.
Cons
it's a bit expensive, but alternatives have similar pricing.

Rita Carla Francesca
Verified reviewer
Company size: 1 employee
Industry: Translation and Localization
Time used: Less than 6 months
Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered
June 2022
Great translation software
I started using it with a new client that offered me an account to work on their files. I immediately found it very easy to use and never had an issue with it so far.
Pros
The interface is very intuitive and user-friendly, and the search in the database is very fast.
Cons
I've noticed that the latest activity in my profile stopped updating a couple of months ago. Actually, that isn't an essential feature, but sometimes it would be useful to go there and check the latest files I've worked on.

Andrei
Verified reviewer
Company size: 11-50 employees
Industry: Computer Software
Time used: Less than 12 months
Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.
October 2019
Powerful (but expensive) localization platform
We have been using Transifex for almost a year and we are quite happy about it. We have the starter plan which is quite limited but other options were way over our budget.
Pros
It’s easy to add new resources that need translation and once you add them the translators are instantly notified. The Memory Translation feature is very useful and makes translation a lot faster.
Cons
It doesn’t offer support for the new XCLOC format that Xcode exports. At the moment I was using it, it only offered support for XLIFF files.
Soyuzbek
Company size: 11-50 employees
Industry: Program Development
Review Source: Capterra
June 2020
Thank you for Transifex for their job.
Pros
Easy to use, user friendly interface, well organized for teams
Cons
I couldn't find version control of translations
Yukihiko
Company size: 1 employee
Industry: Civic & Social Organization
Time used: Less than 6 months
Review Source: Capterra
June 2020
Difficult to use, but very useful.
We have had some issues with usage, but the chatbot and support contact was fast and accurate.
Pros
Easy to translate and review. The original and translated texts are listed side by side for easy viewing.
Cons
The management features are too advanced. Creating a project is very difficult to understand. There is a lot of confusion at the beginning of use. Registration of subscriptions did not go well.
