Compare Smartling vs Lokalise vs POEditor

About Smartling

Smartling is the cloud-based solution for website localization and documents translation, replacing manual process by up to 90%. It also significantly reduces costs and delivers translated content to targeted international markets.

It helps business owners broaden their audience by internationalizing the content. The process consists of collecting the material, facilitating human translation, and distributing translated content. Smartling all that manages through its workflow.

This service is mainly intended to enable data-driven businesses to overcome language barriers without affecting the content quality.

About Lokalise

Lokalise lets you manage translations of your app, game or website – either on your own or with a team of collaborators.

Upload your language files, invite team members and integrate with the project workflow. Built for developers, Lokalise offers neat features including inline translation suggestions, project chat, export webhooks and an API.

Lokalise started as an internal translation management tool. We wanted to stop the email threads, multiple spreadsheets, unanswered questions, lack of context associated with the translation and localization.

Lokalise was designed as an alternative to outdated and expensive tools, with a clear focus on automation and integrations to accelerate product time-to-market. Today, Lokalise serves thousands of customers worldwide from our offices in Riga, Latvia.

Our goal is to eliminate the hassle of localization by providing tools to automate, integrate and better manage your translations.

About POEditor

POEditor is a cross-platform translation and localization management solution. We offer scalable online collaboration and automation tools for teams to improve their translation and l10n workflow.

We support most of the popular file formats used for app localization and website localization and are working on adding support for new localization file formats all the time.

Currently supported l10n files:
* Gettext (.po, .pot)
* Excel (.xls, .xlsx)
* CSV (.csv)
* INI (.ini)
* Microsoft Resources (.resw, .resx)
* Android Resources (.xml)
* Apple Strings (.strings)
* iOS Xliff (.xliff)
* Java Properties (.properties)
* Key-Value JSON (.json)
* JSON (.json)
* Yaml (.yml)
* Angular XLIFF (.xlf)
* Angular XMB (.xmb)
* Angular XTB (.xtb)
* Flutter ARB (.arb)
* Articulate Rise 360 XLIFF (.xlf)
* Qt Linguist TS (.ts)
* Apple Xcstrings (.xcstrings)

Some perks of working with POEditor:

• you can mix human, machine and AI translation to your convenience, using your own translation team or ordering translations from partnering LSPs

• you can easily achieve continuous localization by automating your localization workflow with powerful tools like API, GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab and Azure DevOps integrations, Webhooks and Callbacks

• you can get realtime updates about your localization progress on Slack and Teams

• you can keep l10n projects backed up and recycle translations with the help of the Translation Memory

• you get fast and free support from our friendly and vigilant team

Features

Features

Features

Summary

• Website Translation

• Document Translation

• Mobile App Translation

• Process Automation

• Content Collection Automation

• Automatic Workflows

• Translation File Organization

• Content Exclusion

• Translation Management

• Analytics Integration

Summary

• Collaborative online editor

• iOS and Android SDKs

• In-context Live Edit modules

• Integrations

• QA checker

• Web and mobile in-context editors

• Localization workflow management

Summary

• Collaborative Translation Editor

• Machine Translation: Google, DeepL, Microsoft

• Human translation orders

• Translation Memory

• API

• GitHub Integration

• Bitbucket Integration

• GitLab Integration

• Azure Repos Integration

• Webhooks & Callbacks

Pricing

Pricing

Pricing

FAQs

What platforms does this service support?

• This is web-based platform.

Does this service offer an API?

• Yes, there is API offered.

Does this service offer guides, tutorials and or customer support?

• Support: Help Center, Phone Support, Video Tutorials.

What is this service generally used for?

• Smartling is used for website localization and content translation.

Who are the main user groups of this service?

• Users of this services are SMEs and large enterprises.

Does this service integrate with any other apps?

• Smartling integrates with Salesforce, Hubspot, Zendesk, WordPress, GitHub, Marketo, Magento, Drupal, Oracle Eloqua, Adobe Experience Manager, Sitecore, Demandware.

Does this service offer multi-user capability (e.g. teams)?

• No.

FAQs

Does this service integrate with any other apps?

• Yes, we have a lot of them. For example:

  • Amazon S3: Automatically upload language files to an S3 bucket of your choice at export.

  • API: build your own integration.

  • Asana: Create Asana tasks.

  • CakePHP: Localizing with CakePHP's built-in i18n support.

  • CLI: Command-line tool for data exchange.

  • Contentful: Exchange data with Contentful.

  • Datadog: Post to Datadog event stream.

  • Django: Localizing with Django's built-in i18n support.

  • Docker: We have packaged our command-line tool as a Docker image.

  • E-mail: Send e-mail notifications.

  • Figma: A plugin to exchange translations and screenshots.

  • Flowdock: Post to Flowdock inbox.

  • GitHub: Pull files from GitHub and create pull requests from Lokalise.

  • GitLab: Pull files from GitLab and create pull requests from Lokalise.

  • Intercom: Instant translation via Intercom notes.

  • Bitbucket: Pull files from Bitbucket and create pull requests from Lokalise.

  • Google Cloud Storage: Automatically upload language files to a GCS bucket of your choice at export.

  • Grunt: Localizing with the CLI tool.

  • Jenkins: Learn how to integrate Lokalise with Jenkins.

  • Jira: Create Jira issues.

  • Mobile In-context Editor: KiveEdit - mobile in-context editor.

  • Node.js: Localizing with Node's built-in i18n support.

  • Ruby on Rails: Localizing with RoR's built-in i18n support

  • Sketch: Two-way integration for Sketch designs.

  • Slack: Post to a Slack channel.

  • TimeCamp: Create TimeCamp tasks.

  • Trello: Create Trello cards.

  • Web In-context Editor: LiveJS - web in-context editor.

  • Webhooks: Custom webhook integration.

  • WordPress: Exchange pages and posts between WordPress and Lokalise.

  • Zendesk: Exchange data with Zendesk Help Center.

  • Zendesk Guide: Exchange data with Zendesk Guide.

  • Zendesk Chat: Live chat translation.

  • Zendesk Support: Live support ticket tranlsation.

  • iOS SDK: Update iOS strings over-the-air

    • Android SDK: Update Android strings over-the-air

  • PHP SDK: Lokalise API PHP client

  • Golang SDK: Official Lokalise API Golang client library

What platforms does this service support?

• Lokalise supports many popular files and formats: Android Resources (.xml), Apple Strings (.strings), Apple Stringsdict (.stringsdict), Apple XLIFF (.xliff), Comma-separated values (.csv), Excel (.xls, .xlsx), Gettext (.po, .pot), Java Properties (.properties), JavaScript Object (.js), JSON flat (.json), JSON nested (.json), .NET resources (resx), Objective-C/Cocoa Properties (.plist), PHP Arrays (.php), PHP Laravel language files (.php), PHP INI (.ini), Qt Linguist (.ts), React Native (i18n, .js), Salesforce Translation (.stf), YAML, Xcode Localization Catalog (XCLOC), XLIFF (.xlf, .xliff), Word Document (.docx), HTML

What is this service generally used for?

• To translate and localize app and web-based applications as well as any other software.

Does this service offer an API?

• Yes.

Does this service offer multi-user capability (e.g. teams)?

• Yes. Lokalise lets you manage translations of your app, game or website – either on your own or with a team of collaborators.

Does this service offer guides, tutorials and or customer support?

• Sure! We offer video tutorials, written guides, help center, live support chat.

Who are the main user groups of this service?

• Developers, project managers, product managers, localization managers, translators.

FAQs

What platforms does this service support?

• Supported localization file formats:
  * Gettext (.po, .pot)
  * Excel (.xls, .xlsx)
  * CSV (.csv)
  * INI (.ini)
  * Microsoft Resources (.resw, .resx)
  * Android Resources (.xml)
  * Apple Strings (.strings)
  * iOS Xliff (.xliff)
  * Java Properties (.properties)
  * Key-Value JSON (.json)
  * JSON (.json)
  * Yaml (.yml)
  * Angular XLIFF (.xlf)
  * Angular XMB (.xmb)
  * Angular XTB (.xtb)
  * ARB (.arb)
  * Qt Linguist TS (.ts)
  * Apple Xcstrings (.xcstrings)

Does this service integrate with any other apps?

• POEditor is integrated with code hosting services like GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket and Azure DevOps, with machine translation engines from Google, Microsoft and DeepL, with WordPress via a translation plugin, with human translation service providers (Gengo and TextMasters) and with LLMs (OpenAI, Claude, Gemini).

Who are the main user groups of this service?

• Anyone who wants to translate software products online, especially companies.

What are some applications this service is commonly used in tandem with?

• Code hosting services like GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket and Azure DevOps.
  Machine translation engines: Google, Microsoft, DeepL.

Does this service offer multi-user capability (e.g. teams)?

• Yes.

What is this service generally used for?

• Translation management and localization workflow automation.

Does this service offer guides, tutorials and or customer support?

• Yes.

Does this service offer an API?

• Yes.

Vendor Information

Vendor Information

Vendor Information

Other

• SMEs
• Enterprises

• Web App

• Android

Other

• Startups
• SMEs
• Agencies
• Enterprises

• Web App
• Windows

• iOS
• Android

Other

• Personal
• Freelance
• Startups
• SMEs
• Agencies
• Enterprises

• Web App