Looking for a Lokalise Alternative? Try Transifex

Transifex effortlessly localizes digital content with AI and offers developer-focused features for seamless, large-scale projects.
 
 
  • Handle diverse projects with additional file formats, Native, and Live
  • Streamline continuous localization and empower your dev team
  • Improve team collaboration with robust communication functionalities

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Choosing the Right Localization Tool:A Comparative Guide between Transifex and Lokalise

First of all, kudos to Lokalise for creating a solid and visually appealing platform!

While Lokalise offers a range of localization features, Transifex’s developer-centric approach, superior continuous localization capabilities, robust communication tools, and support for multiple file formats make it the go-to choice for developers and engineers.

To explore this in more detail, we’ve evaluated Lokalise alongside Transifex, focusing on key features, use cases, and price points. Hopefully, our research will help you understand how Transifex and Lokalise compare, so you can choose the best option for your localization project.

Let's Explore the Transifex Localization Hub First

  • Transifex AI and TQI
  • Transifex TMS
  • Transifex Live
  • Transifex Native

Transifex AI and TQI

Transifex AI is basically your brand’s translator, designed to deliver large-scale, context-aware translations that are continuously refined to adhere and respect your unique brand voice. Transifex Quality Index (TQI) is your auto-reviewer that post-edits and verifies translations automatically, ensuring they are ready to be published.
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Transifex TMS

The localization hub that brings together 40+ integrations , AI, MT, Translation Memory (TM), workflow automation, real-time collaboration, and support for diverse content types and formats for optimal localization management.
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Transifex Live

Provides real-time website localization that enables seamless Over-the-Air (OTA) publishing of translated content. It's a one-stop-shop for marketers and product marketers aiming to significantly reduce developer dependency by integrating Transifex Live directly with their website.
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Transifex Native

A solution originally built by developers for developers, Transifex Native offers a developer-friendly project type that enables direct integration of continuous localization into your CI/CD processes for any application. This allows developers to work directly on localization projects without spending time learning the Transifex platform.
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Transifex vs. Lokalise: The Ultimate Developer’s Choice

While Lokalise provides a stylish and user-friendly platform that is easy to use and learn, Transifex excels with its developer-centric design, advanced functionality, and extensive file type support, offering greater project flexibility. Tailored for complex localization strategies, Transifex is the ideal choice for developers seeking efficiency and precision in their localization workflows.

  • Built by Developers for Developers
  • Live-Native Content Serving
  • Continuous Localization
  • Glossary, Communication and Team Management

Built by Developers for Developers

Transifex was crafted with a deep understanding of the challenges developers face. With robust webhooks, Transifex handles asynchronous situations smoothly, ensuring that notifications and updates are timely and accurate.

Engineers also benefit from not having to know or use directly the Transifex platform. How? Transifex's CLI is designed to be user-friendly, allowing developers to effortlessly migrate, create new projects, or change project types. This is something that your dev team will surely come to appreciate. 
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Live-Native Content Serving

Transifex Native seamlessly embeds localization directly into applications, automatically syncing content with Transifex for real-time updates and smooth integration with development workflows, allowing developers to use Transifex without deep platform knowledge.

In contrast, Transifex Live provides an intuitive, in-context localization experience for web content, enabling marketers and non-technical users to publish translated content over-the-air (OTA) directly into production, freeing developer time from localization tasks.
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Continuous Localization

We’ve received many testimonials praising Transifex’s continuous localization capabilities. Our powerful Git integration, with multi-branch support and two-way synchronization, is a standout feature. With auto push to Git using webhooks, you can set triggers for 100% translated, reviewed, and proofread content, ensuring seamless updates.
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Glossary, Communication and Team Management

While both platforms offer extensive glossary, collaborator communication and team management functionalities, we found that Transifex has some additional functionalities often praised by its users.

Transifex's glossary for example offers translation checks, and translation warnings to ensure consistency and accuracy in glossary terms. Additionally, when it comes to communication and team management it offers 1:1 discussions, team discussions, as well as project-level announcements, and organization-wide updates. 
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Top Features and Integrations Comparison Table

To wrap up, built by developers for developers Transifex’s intuitive CLI, continuous localization capabilities, comprehensive glossary and translation check features, and robust communication tools ensure a seamless workflow for development teams. On the other hand, if you’re looking for a more user-friendly and stylish platform, Lokalise might be a better fit.

But before making your final decision, let’s dive into some standout differences between the two:

Comparison Table

Transifex
Crowdin
Web-Based Editor
Web-Based Editor
CAT Features
CAT Features
Branching
Branching
Native Project Types
Native Project Types
Live Website Localization
Live Website Localization
Machine Translation (MT)
Machine Translation (MT)
Auto AI-Generated Content Review
Auto AI-Generated Content Review
Glossary
Glossary
QA Checks on Glossary Terms
QA Checks on Glossary Terms
Advanced Communication Options
Advanced Communication Options
Translation Memory (TM)
Translation Memory (TM)
Translation Memory (TM) Management
Translation Memory (TM) Management
HubSpot
HubSpot
Azure Repos
Azure Repos
Drupal
Drupal
ReadMe
ReadMe
Shopify
Shopify
BigCommerce
BigCommerce

Don’t take our word for it! Hear it from our partners

Celonis slashed translation times by 70% and with AI-driven localization

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2x Faster speed to market
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70% Reduction in translation time
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Increased product adoption
Julia
Julia, Senior Training Manager at Celonis
“Apart from the seamless integration with our platform, we choose Transifex for its usability and functionality. Because it's so easy to set up and enable othersto use it too.”

HubSpot Delivers Continuous Localization with 80% Faster Workflows

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Significantly reduced turnaround times for translations
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Localized their software for 86,000 customers in 120 countries
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Fully integrated localization updates within the development-release cycle
Dierk Runne
Localization and Systems Leader,
HubSpot
“With Transifex, we’ve been able to streamline our localization process, reducing turnaround times and enabling us to launch new features simultaneously in every language.”

Oportun launched a multi –language mobile app in weeks, not months

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Faster go-to-market
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Seamless Integration
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Less Translation Workload
Justin
Sr. Product Ops Mgr., Oportun
“Our app’s localization would be a non-starter without Transifex, it saves us weeks on our release cycles.”
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Localization with Transifex

TMS

Manage Translation Projects Across Teams

Manage complex localization projects with ease using customizable workflows, 40+ integrations, and advanced collaboration tools.

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Language AI

On-Brand & Context-Aware Translations

Language AI combines advanced AI with your unique brand context, keeping your localization strategy one step ahead with on-brand translations at scale.

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TQI

Publish Translations You Can Trust, Every Time

TQI provides you insights to deliver production-ready translations without human intervention, streamlining localization workflows like never before.

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