Open Source Poedit AlternativesTop Translators and other similar apps like Poedit

The best open source alternative to Poedit is Weblate. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Poedit and 16 is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Poedit are Tolgee, Lokalize, Virtaal and OmegaT.

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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.

    47 Weblate alternatives

    Cost / License

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    Platforms

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

    Lokalize is the localization tool for KDE software and other free and open source software. It is also a general computer-aided translation system (CAT) with which you can translate OpenDocument files (*.odt).

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Snapcraft
    • Windows
     
  4. Virtaal icon
     16 likes

    Virtaal is a graphical translation tool. It is meant to be easy to use and powerful at the same time. Although the initial focus is on software translation (localisation or l10n), it can be useful for document translation.

    Cost / License

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Virtaal vs Poedit Comments
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    Negative
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    Very limited in functionalities. Does not extract data from source code

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • Virtaal is Free and Open SourcePoedit is Freemium and Open Source
  5. OmegaT icon
     27 likes

    OmegaT is a free translation memory application written in Java. It is a tool intended for professional translators. It does not translate for you!

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. Pootle icon
     26 likes

    Online translation platform. Pootle allows your professional or community translators to easily complete localization tasks. For you it becomes easier to manage and monitor the distributed work.

    Cost / License

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Python
    • Django
     
  7. 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.

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    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Wordpress
     
  8. Open-source localization toolkit with tools for text conversion, review, debugging, format conversion, and terminology extraction across formats like PO, XLIFF, DTD, and CSV, customizable for projects, with Python utilities and online documentation.

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. 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
     
  10. Gtranslator icon
     3 likes

    GNOME Translation Editor (Formerly known as Gtranslator) is an enhanced gettext po file editor for the GNOME desktop environment. It handles all forms of gettext po files and includes features such as Find/Replace, Translation Memory, different Translator Profiles, Messages...

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    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  11. Qt Linguist icon
     1 like

    Qt Linguist helps translate Qt apps into multi languages. Qt provides excellent support for translating Qt C++ and Qt Quick apps into local languages.

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Flathub
     
  12. Better PO Editor is an editor for .po files, used to generate compiled gettext .mo files which are used by many programs and websites to localize the user interface.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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