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[Overview](https://www.softwareadvice.com/translation-management/lokalise-profile/) Reviews [Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/translation-management/lokalise-profile/alternatives/) # Lokalise User Reviews ## Reviews summary - Overall rating: 4.8/5 - Total reviews: 97 ### Secondary ratings - Ease of use: 4.8/5 - Customer support: 4.9/5 - Value for money: 4.6/5 - Functionality: 4.7/5 ### Rating distribution - 5 stars: 82 reviews (85%) - 4 stars: 12 reviews (12%) - 3 stars: 2 reviews (2%) - 2 stars: 1 reviews (1%) - 1 star: 0 reviews (0%) ### Most mentioned pros - The ability to use a unified glossary and style guide amongst our projects, paired with Lokalise AI for translation, has been a powerful combination for us. - It's ideal to have our content constantly synced from Zendesk to Lokalise, so it's ready to be translated with daily updates. - The extensive CLI tooling als makes it easy to implement the localisation process into your development pipeline. ### Most mentioned cons - Android/iOS integration is not so perfect, especially iOS ones with strings catalog - Perhaps too much focus on artificial intelligence and integration with figma still somewhat precarious - They have great features, but it is an expensive platform in general (and can be very expensive if you don't downgrade in time). ## Lokalise customer reviews Showing reviews 1-25 of 97 (page 1). ### So easy, even at extreme scale - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Robert T. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: February 2020 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered 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. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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 --- ### Best service for localising your content! - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Tadas Ž. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Consumer Services - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2019 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I haven't seen anything better than Lokalise at this price level. Also amazing customer support! #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I love this service because it is built for software engineers in mind. It supports all the different file formats you might need, works super well with the different languages, great APIs and integration with other services that we use. It's top in the class and pricing is very reasonable. Our translation team loves the product team and for them, it's ease of use and supportive UI that really helps you catch small mistakes. Highly recommend!! #### Cons I really like that you can order translations with just a few clicks, but it's hard to know who is translating the text. It would be great if you would have the same person assigned to your project and could directly talk with him. --- ### Review for Lokalise - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: Tatiana S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2020 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### 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 --- ### The best translation platform I've ever experienced - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Jinho J. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2020 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered More than perfect. I am able to manage our translation campaign thanks to Lokalise and everyone is super satisfied. Thank you Lokalise! #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros 1. Easy to use I tried to use a couple of other translation platforms before but Lokalise is the easiest to learn and use. Our open source translators were satisfied as well. 2. Developer friendly Automatic Github integration, handy upload and download, and other developer friendly features 3. Free for open source projects Lokalise contributes to the open source ecosystem together offering its wonderful services for free for open source projects. I already recommended Lokalise to other open source projects. 4. Customer services The customer services are super detailed and fast. Even I'd like to know how the team manages the CS department and educate the team by themselves. #### Cons Does not support md(markdown) files, which are one of the most popular extensions to maintain documentation. --- ### Big fan of this system and top notch support - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Andreas S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Health, Wellness and Fitness - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: July 2019 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Our company wants to rapidly translate our products to reach new markets. At the same time, we have medically sensitive texts which need to be reviewed by a medical expert after the are translated. I spent loads of time analyzing the market and lokalise ticked every box so we signed up. The experience has been great. The customer support via chat has solved every issue I have and the inferface is good enough such that I can send a task to a non-technical person, for example to review texts in our app, and they immediately figure out what they need to do without any further instruction. So yes I’m a fan and would strongly recommend it. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Great features and support Workflow and task manager fits like a glove with our needs #### Cons Couple of minor user interface improvements could be made --- ### Awesome tool with rich set of features - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Anton K. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: January 2020 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Everything went great so far. We are still learning, but enjoying the Lokalise. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros + Help to unite and sync your translations + Provide good UX/UI + Easy to onboard contributors for new languages + Rich set of managing the users inside the projects #### Cons Its not a cons, but would be great to see and open-source project on GitHub with an example of Android, iOS and web app with lokalise in order to speed up even more the onboarding of dev for this tool. #### Reasons for choosing Lokalise Lokalise support provided free open-source license and has rich set of features which help to sync translations on both Android and iOS --- ### Higher translation percentage through better software - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Ash M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Museums and Institutions - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 6 months - Reviewed: December 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. This has been a truly great step up for us. We've used it already to translate our website into 24 different languages, with some keys that we already had and some that we needed to purchase translations for. There are some small but remarkable features available, one is the autocorrect translations when you're adding translations by hand. E.g. if I'm trying to translate a word, it'll already have suggested it from 4 different translation services which is very helpful if you're semi confident on what you were going to enter. In terms of development, this integrates well into our github repo by create pull requests automatically which our team can just review and approve. Super streamlined into our CI workflow. Customer service has also been excellent and very fast at responding. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros The ability to add context to translations, either through description or screenshots. The ease of submitting translations for professional review and the options available. #### Cons Navigating the translations feels a little tricky sometimes but still significantly better than our previous software. --- ### Best experience I've ever had using a localisation tool! - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Kevin H. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Internet - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: October 2017 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Make our release process faster and more reliable. Make our translations more consistent on one platform and accros all platforms. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Lokalise is years far ahead from its competitors. It solves every problems we encounter today in mobile apps. The way to assign specific platforms per translation, the possibility of having different keys per platform, universal placeholders, glossary, translations proposition based on Google Translate and translation memory. Also the API and fastlane actions are helping us improving our continuous intergation system! --- ### Lokalise has turned a task we were dreading into an absolute pleasure. Great platform, intuitive UX! - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Edward C. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Financial Services - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: December 2017 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Great platform, intuitive UX, powerful API. The automatic text recognition for screen shots has been a life saver, and over the air updates are the icing on the cake. --- ### Easy to Use Translation Platform - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Oliver L. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2020 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros It is easy to use and implement for both tech team and translators. To best of our knowledge, it is not missing any features we might need and we can easily add new languages and even take advantage of Google Translate. #### Cons I found the Admin section bit confusing in the past but their team explained it quickly in the live chat. --- ### Great thing for localisation - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Eduardo E. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Financial Services - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. It's great, and is able to make the localisation process quite simple for everyone involved. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros The core product works quite well, screenshots are helpful for record keeping, for engineers to easily understand where to apply keys. #### Cons Sometimes the shortcuts are counter intuitive. The AI beta could be massively improved. Text recognition could be added to extract text from screenshots. --- ### Just What We Needed - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Steev H. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Environmental Services - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2020 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered We have used Lokalise to integrate our translatable codebase with translations, and leverage paid and volunteer translators to help us increase our language coverage. We also had a need for a system that non-technical translators could easily understand and use. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros The best things about Lokalise are the integration with other tools like Github and Slack, as well as the UI and the access controls. I like how easy it's been to import and export sources and translations to and from our code repositories, and the ease with which we can control who can do what within different languages. #### Cons I have very little to complain about. The only thing worth mentioning is sometimes a slight delay because of time zone in getting support when we were first learning how to use it, because we're in Arizona and they're in Latvia. But that's a very minor inconvenience! #### Reasons for switching to Lokalise We needed the system to be more usuable by non-technical people that were daunted by needing to directly use git and github. --- ### Game Changer - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Richard B. - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2018 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Lokalise has completely removed the headache of managing strings across all our apps and it has reduced the need for constant reviews and re-working of translations. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Lokalise has completely transformed how we translate our apps. We don't have to struggle with zip files flying around via email and are able to quickly and efficiently produce new builds for review. Once we had fixed the main problem, we were able to use Lokalise to completely automate our translations process using web hooks. When translations are Reviewed by our provider, we pull these into Bitbucket, generate a new build and run UI tests to generate Screenshots which are sent to the client within one hour. This process used to take at least 5 days per language. #### Cons Honestly, not much. the only problem we've had is with User Permissions, users report not being able to see Languages but it's always because we haven't updated their permissions. --- ### Great tool and customer support - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Rachel W. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Telecommunications - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2020 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Lokalise is extremely easy to use, the speed in which translations are returned to us has helped improved efficiency across our teams! Our account managers ([SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN]) have always been on hand to help with any queries. #### Cons I'd like if there was some optional add on so that we could add a certain number of translations included with our package. --- ### LOKALISE is a must for mobile apps - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Transportation/ Trucking/ Railroad - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: January 2020 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Lokalise made things very simple for the mobile team leading our multilingual app development. Versions x.1 have no longer been launched for typing reasons (in the past we always had to launch small updates to fix typos or to rephrase things that were not clear). The "intelligence" in Lokalise, recommending words that are similiar to the ones already used in other sections of the app is incredible. #### Cons To be honest: nothing. In the team we do not understand how we could live before implementing Lokalise. --- ### Highly recommend - works well, fast and easy to use - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Alexandra G. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Hospital & Health Care - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2020 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Everything about Lokalise works well - the translations are spot on (and I am a native speaker of four languages so I can really tell), the UX is well thought out and intuitive, it's fast and the search function especially. One thing I really love is that Lokalise remembers how you chose to translate something, not just the generic translation. The other thing is how easy it is to collaborate across our team. KUDOS for developing this and we love using your tool. Have recommended it to many others too, and they have been happy. #### Cons Please don't change anything - this is an awesome tool and it works perfectly as is!! --- ### Fantastic tool for managing the localization process - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Wei Z. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: June 2019 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros This tool facilitates a streamlined localization process amongst admin, translators and reviewers. The workflow fits very well to our needs. The User interface is friendly. Managing big amount of translation data is simple with smart filtering/sorting and extremely importantly the backup. Getting support using the online chat is super efficient. The customer service agent on the other side is polite and always helpful. #### Cons This tool works very well for us. Hard to think of anything I don't like. The team behind has done a fantastic job building this. --- ### We use Lokalise to manage our website and applications translations - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Quentin A. - Industry: Internet - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: November 2017 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Easy managment for our translations and integration with our development tools throught the API. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros - simple and easy to use - export in many formats - API - contributor managment customizable for each project - translation tools integrated #### Cons - plan limitation for users in team can sometime be too restrictive if you ave to manage different users per project --- ### Service Customer at his best - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Eole R. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Marketing and Advertising - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: April 2019 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros The service is really useful and quite simple to use for use thanks to the API. Customer service is on top! #### Cons Need a precise tutorial or training to be able to ask for mass translations --- ### Great translation software for our site - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Deron B. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Non-Profit Organization Management - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2020 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered It opened up our horizons to translating our site into more languages and more easily. What a relief. I highly recommend this product. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros We work with volunteers across the globe. They are able to easily learn and use this software to translate what they can and leave the hard pages, TOS etc for us to farm out via Lokalise and a couple of days later they are done. The translation suggestions shown from Google et alia by phrase are super helpful too. #### Cons Some of the HTML goop doesn't always transition over to the translation smoothly but generally it's fine. #### Reasons for switching to Lokalise Old software was not user friendly for non-geek users and for volunteers and for farming out translations quickly and easily. --- ### I keep and manage all my translations in a single place - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Roman P. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Legal Services - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2019 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Attention to details if we are talking about UI/UX. It is easy to use essential tool that you can just send al ink to your teammate and he will understand what to do immediately. It resolves my business tasks on the fly. #### Cons I still haven't found anything disappointing to me. --- ### Scaling and ease of use - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Kasper M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Financial Services - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2019 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Its ease of use and rapid feature development. #### Cons Versioning is a bit confusing at first because it uses a different paradigm than what you are used to with their notions of release vs pre-release (and not tied to a semantic version for instance). --- ### Great choice for language localization - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Michael S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: May 2019 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered We've been able to translate our SaaS application into a number of languages very quickly. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Great user experience. Prompt customer service. Very feature rich. Low time to value in that onboarding is very easy and quick. #### Cons Very few complaints. Their support team is located in Europe so US companies should plan for a time zone difference when it comes to support requests. --- ### Waves Platform - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Maks S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Banking - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: March 2019 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Having tried a large number of similar services stopped at lokalise. Incredibly convenient functionality! Work with a large amount of data as comfortable as possible. The work of technical support at height. Always help! #### Cons Difficult to answer. All "bad" moments are decided in the technical support chat and are corrected. Just magic! --- ### The best localisation tool I worked with - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Andrey S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2020 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros - Screenshots - APIs - Free for open source projects #### Cons So far I did not have any negative experience. ## More reviews [Next reviews](https://www.softwareadvice.com/translation-management/lokalise-profile/reviews/?page=2) --- Lokalise Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice