Transifex - online service for app translation

If you want to sell your business application (or service) on the European market, you need to translate the interface to at least 5-6 major European languages. Of course you can hire a professional translator to do this job, but if the translator doesn't understand your app and doesn't use it - he'll hardly make a good translation. It's ideal when the translation is done by the app users themselves. But there are also many problems with this option. For example, how to combine multiple translations from different users, or how to update the translation for the new version if the old translator disappeared. Fortunately, there are special crowd-sourcing translation services for such cases. And Transifex is one of the best of them.

This service allows you to publish the translation file (a table of strings) in one of the 17 standard formats (Gettext, Java properties, Android resources, etc.) and manage the translation process: store translation versions from different users, combine them or assign moderator rights to the trusted users and let them combine the versions. The service doesn't suggest any fees to translators - all done voluntarily.

Originally Transifex was created as a translation service for open-source projects. It is used by such well-known projects as Firefox, fedora, GNOME, django, Meego. Recently Transifex also became added support for commercial projects. But unlike the open-source projects, for which everything is free, commercial projects have to pay from 30 euro per month. But there is also a free plan, limited to 2000 and two maintainers.

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