Lokalise vs. Smartcat

Lokalise is a great product if you're looking to translate your software in multiple languages. It optimizes every process and gives you a large variety of features and integrations to ensure high translation quality, and efficient workflows for everyone involved

Smartcat is well suited for documents longer than 500 words. It is less appropriate for audio-visual translation.

Incentivized

• Stores information
• Can do handle than 1 project

• Segmentation.
• Translation overall quality.
• Customer service.
• Pricing.

Incentivized

• machine translation options don't use the glossary terminology
• the WordPress integration isn't really usable in the current state
• email notifications settings are not detailed enough

• Performance has been an issue initially. Sometimes it takes longer for some things to load and it can be frustrating.
• UI seems a bit confusing at times. For example, I don't understand why I need to have a translator's profile when I'm clearly a project manager.
• Their support team can take a long time to reply which often crucial for urgent projects.

We were actually intended to get Localize instead of Lokalise, the naming is very confusing.

We also tried Memsource but it was lacking in terms of overall user experience and ease of use. Assigning projects in SmartCAT is a much more intuitive experience, plus it has all these other additional features that are absent from Memsource (like payment solution for freelancers). On top of that, the SmartCAT is absolutely free to use.

• Translation memories and CAT tool help us ensure maximum consistency in our translations which is always appreciated by clients.
• Team collaboration made it easier for us to grow our business and take on bigger projects, which brings us more revenue.
• Payment solution helps us save money on wire transfer fees which is always great when working with multiple freelancers.