Lokalise Pricing Overview

Translations are extremely quick as there is a Google Translate button where the reviewer can simply adjust translations and mark them as ready.

Permissions can be adjusted to reviewers for specific countries, so there is no risk, that work of others might be affected negatively.

Customer support is really quick and helpful. The links to videos and FAQ is very helpful. Also customer service is very friendly and answers within an hour which is an approriate time to answer.

The initial use is quiet easy, although, I would recommend to merge the settings for everything. At the moment, the settings for language options are outside of the settings menu.

The auto-pull feature is extremly helpful as translations can be adjusted to sprint rythms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is very expensive for the initial phase of a product launch. Meaning, if only translations for English and a second language are required, and as long as a product is not established on a market yet, Lokalise is too expensive - at least for any company that is not a big cooperation. Especially regarding the fact that most smaller companies would start in a market where the second language is their native language, thus, there is less need for translation assistance. I would suggest to offer a free version for the second language (that cannot be changed afterwards) and start charging money for the third language to bind customers.

It is not clear where to create projects when you are not an admin. Disabling the button with an explanation that permissions are missing would be better to understand. In my case, I had project admin permissions but not overall admin permissions and was looking for the Create Project button as I was not aware I had limited rights. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I use lokalise as a translator every day and appreciate the following:

- Quick loading times

- Quick support responses

- Translation interface is good Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As a power user the following annoyances appeared to me:

Urgency 11/10: Colorful placeholders are nice to look at in the translation view but PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD lokalise needs to make the product manager who uploads a translation task double check the file to clean up the returns/newlines so that we translators are not presented with a mess that is an editing nightmare. Lokalise needs to implement a sanitation/normalizing module for that and show an example view of the task so the uploader sees the mess.

Urgency 10/10: Translators should have the option to download reports with match numbers, just like the management team of the company that assigns tasks to us. That way, we can write invoices ourselves and use stepped pricing based on those matches. Now, we are reliant on the management team to receive their reports in time, which is an abysmal situation to be in as a freelance translator. Plus, the report word counts between the management and translator reports differ which is odd and possibly a bug of this platform.

Urgency 10/10: DeepL should be integrated more, in the sense that a translator may use their credentials to log into their DeepL-account to be able to use their glossary and settings within lokalise.

Urgency 8/10: Prevent CSS repainting (page jumping) when a translator moves to a key that they want to translate (by clicking with the mouse or using the keyboard). Currently, my eyes lose track when the grey match list gets opened. Its appearance shifts the page layout, resp. scrolls the page a bit up or down. It would be better if your grey match list gets assigned fixed size boxes. This helps with e.g. DeepL results that take a couple of seconds to arrive and may be long. Additionally, the grey box should be treated as a "position:absolute" item that never interferes with the page layout.

Urgency 8/10: Introduce mandatory field for the project owner to make them set the deadline time. The date without time is useless, since it depends on the tasker's opinion if they mean the previous or mentioned day. Some taskers write the date/time into the info field but some forget it. There needs to be a mandatory date/time field.

Urgency 3/10: Option for setting keys as translated in bulk (instead of mind-numbingly clicking each orange circle).

Urgency 2/10: Translation of a key: The "Cancel"-button should be further away from the "Save" button to prevent accidental hits.

Believe it or not: I've sent this list to the lokalise team in 2021 and still these pressing issues aren't fixed while they only fixed one minor thing with urgency 1/10 (show task title in task view). Lokalise seems to be a company with 5 managers for every 1 programmer.

I still would recommend lokalise as it saves time and money, but it definitely doesn't live up to its potential. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.