About Lokalise
Lokalise is a continuous localization and translation management platform. It plugs into the development workflow so teams can translate and release localized products, and it also supports marketers, designers and product managers. The vendor describes it as an AI-assisted platform that connects a company's content sources and publishes translated content across markets.
Capabilities include an AI stack with custom AI profiles and AI scoring, an MCP server, automated workflows, a translation API, context management, reporting and analytics, and enterprise compliance and security features. Integrations cover Figma, GitHub, GitLab, Jira, Contentful, Webflow and WordPress. Typical jobs include software, website and mobile app translation as well as long-form content.
Lokalise is a proprietary, hosted service offered with a free trial, a demo and a pricing page, and it is aimed at teams that have outgrown spreadsheets for managing translations.
Key features
- Translation management for apps and websites
- Integrations with GitHub, GitLab and Figma
- AI translation with custom profiles and scoring
- Automated localization workflows
- Translation API and MCP server
- Reporting, analytics and compliance controls
Good fit for
- →Localizing a mobile app release by release
- →Replacing spreadsheet-based translation tracking
- →Translating marketing content for new markets
- Tags
- localization
- translation-management
- i18n
- ai-translation
- developer-tools
- saas
- figma
Lokalise: questions and answers
- What is Lokalise used for?
- Lokalise is a translation management and continuous localization platform that connects to developer and design tools to ship localized software. It is a good fit for localizing a mobile app release by release, replacing spreadsheet-based translation tracking and translating marketing content for new markets.
- How much does Lokalise cost?
- Paid plans for Lokalise start at $149 per month, and there is no free plan. A free trial is available.
- Is Lokalise open source?
- No. Lokalise is proprietary (closed-source) software and can't be self-hosted. Open-source alternatives to Lokalise include Tolgee, Intlayer and Weblate.
- What are some alternatives to Lokalise?
- Lokalise competes with Crowdin, Phrase and Transifex. For open-source options, see Enlisted's ranked list of open-source Lokalise alternatives.
Open-source alternatives to Lokalise
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Tolgee
Localization
Developer & translator friendly web-based localization platform
OSSvs Crowdin★ 4.1k
Intlayer
Localization
Per-component Internationalisation solution for JS application. Type-Safe. Translate with
Apache-2.0vs Locize★ 844
Weblate
Localization
Web based localization tool with tight version control integration.
GPL-3.0vs Crowdin★ 6.1k
Pontoon
Localization
Mozilla's Localization Platform
BSD-3-Clausevs Transifex★ 1.7k
Lingo.dev
Localization
Open-source localization engineering tools. Connects to Lingo.dev localization engineering
Apache-2.0vs Lokalise★ 5.4k
LibreTranslate
Localization
Free and Open Source Machine Translation API. Self-hosted, offline capable and easy to set
AGPL-3.0vs Google Translate★ 17k
SaaS alternatives to Lokalise
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Crowdin
Localization
Localization management platform for software, documentation and games
SaaS
Phrase
Localization
Translation management and string localization suite for software teams
SaaS
Transifex
Localization
Localization platform for software and apps with continuous delivery
SaaS
Smartling
Localization
Enterprise translation management with AI and human workflows
SaaS
Localazy
Localization
Developer-focused localization platform with a free tier
SaaS
POEditor
Localization
Web-based translation management for apps and websites
SaaS

