Open Source Pootle AlternativesTranslators and other similar apps like Pootle

The best open source alternative to Pootle is Weblate. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Pootle and 11 is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Pootle are Poedit, Tolgee, Zanata and Mozilla Pontoon.

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  1. Weblate icon
     67 likes

    Weblate is a web based translation tool with tight VCS integration. It features simple and clean user interface, propagation of translations across components, consistency checks and automatic linking to source files.

    46 Weblate alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Python
    • Redis
    • JavaScript
    • Django
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Cloudron
    • PostgreSQL
    • Docker
     
  2. Poedit icon
     67 likes

    Poedit is cross-platform gettext catalogs (.po files) editor. It is built with wxWidgets toolkit and can run on any platform supported by it (although it was only tested on Unix with GTK+ and Windows). It aims to provide more convenient approach to editing catalogs than...

    39 Poedit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. Tolgee icon
     13 likes

    You no longer have to worry about choosing the right i18n library, editor, or platform. Tolgee is the only tool you need to translate your web-based project to any language you wish.

    Cost / License

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    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  4. Zanata icon
     21 likes

    Zanata is a web-based system for translators, content creators and developers to manage localisation projects.

    Cost / License

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
     
  5. Mozilla Pontoon icon
     10 likes

    Pontoon is a translation management system used and developed by the Mozilla localization community. It specializes in open source localization that is driven by the community and uses version-control systems for storing translations.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  6. GlotPress icon
     7 likes

    GlotPress will let you, or an entire team, to translate their favourite software. It is web-based and open-source. Here is what makes GlotPress special: Totally usable. Not less than a desktop client. Keyboard only editing, shortcuts.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Wordpress
     
  7. Fluent icon
     2 likes

    Innovative: Natural-sounding translations with genders and grammatical cases when necessary. Locale-specific logic doesn't leak to other locales.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Rust
    • Python
    • JavaScript
     
  8.  3 likes

    oTranCe offers a ready to go and entirely web based translation platform to your project and your translators

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  9. Translate terms with Google Spreadsheets, pull strings with a command line tool.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  10. Xliffie icon
     1 like

    Xliffie is designed for developers in mind, with functions like checking printf-formatted string (make sure your %@ is not a %d in the translated string), search with regex, Google / Bing translated, etc...

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  11. React Intl Editor is an open-source editor for translation files generated by react-intl-translations-manager.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
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