Key features
- Git/CI integration — automatic string sync from GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket into Lokalise
- Lokalise AI — machine translation with translation memory and glossary enforcement
- Sprint workflow — branch-based translation aligned to development sprint cycles
- APAC language quality — automated checks for Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and Southeast Asian language issues
- Translation memory — consistent application of approved translations across the string corpus
- Vendor management — task assignment, deadline tracking, and review workflows for translation teams
- SDK and CLI — integration with iOS, Android, React Native, Flutter for mobile localisation
Best for
- APAC SaaS product teams building continuous localisation into development sprint workflows
- Mobile app teams targeting Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and Southeast Asian market releases simultaneously
- APAC startups scaling from English-only to multilingual products without building a localisation team
- Engineering teams wanting developer-native localisation tooling without separate project management overhead
Limitations to know
- ! Developer setup required — non-technical localisation managers need engineering support for initial integration
- ! AI translation quality for APAC languages requires human review and translation memory training for best results
- ! Pricing scales with number of translatable keys — large apps with extensive UI strings generate higher costs
- ! Less suited for marketing content localisation (web pages, campaigns) than software string localisation
About Lokalise
Lokalise is a developer-first localisation and translation management platform designed for APAC software product teams that want to integrate localisation into their development workflow rather than treating it as a post-development step — with native Git integration, CI/CD pipeline connections, and branch-based translation workflows that enable continuous localisation alongside continuous deployment.
For APAC SaaS companies and mobile app teams building products for Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and Southeast Asian markets, the traditional localisation workflow — export strings, send to translators, wait, import translated strings, fix encoding issues, repeat — creates release delays that compound across every sprint. Lokalise's developer integration eliminates these export-import cycles: translatable strings are pushed to Lokalise automatically from the codebase via CLI or GitHub/GitLab integration, translated by human translators or AI within Lokalise, and pulled back into the codebase through the same integration — keeping translation in sync with development without manual file handling.
Lokalise AI — the platform's machine translation and AI assistance layer — provides AI-first translation for APAC languages with translation memory enforcement (ensuring previously approved translations are consistently applied) and glossary integration (enforcing consistent terminology for product names, technical terms, and brand language). For APAC product teams with high translation volumes, AI-first translation with human review covers the majority of string updates without full human translation cost, reserving human translator investment for new feature content and marketing-critical copy.
Lokalise's APAC language support covers Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Bahasa Indonesia, Thai, Vietnamese, and Malay — with quality evaluation tools that flag potential issues specific to each language: Japanese character set mixing (kanji, hiragana, katakana), Chinese traditional/simplified variant consistency, and Korean spacing and particle consistency. For APAC product teams without in-house language expertise, these automated quality checks catch common APAC language errors before they reach production.
Lokalise's task and workflow management — assigning translation tasks to specific translators or vendors with deadline tracking and review workflows — provides APAC localisation managers with project management visibility that email-based translation coordination cannot offer. For APAC enterprises managing translation across multiple languages and vendors simultaneously, Lokalise's workflow infrastructure replaces the spreadsheet-based vendor coordination that is the norm in translation management without a dedicated TMS.
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