What good alternatives to Poedit are there? [closed]

Question

I'm looking for a .po/.mo editor. I am using gettext for the translation files but don't really like Poedit. It has to run on Windows Vista and it would be even better if it was built into Visual Studio 2008 so I could develop and translate.

I really want something that helps me translate and makes translation easier. I want to have suggestions and a spell check.

[No option? If there really are no options I might as well do something about it and code something so translating is easy again. You could even integrate http://dict.leo.org or see what Google Translate has to offer for the Query. ]

Gyniatrics

Answer 1

GTed is an interesting alternative for PoEdit.

Since it is an Eclipse plugin, it suppose first the installation of eclipse: it is not a stand-alone application. But still, it can do the job.

Vestment

Looks good, but how can you parse the sourcecode to get all the translation-source-strings? This tool may only edit exitsing .po files, but can't generate them from Source, right ?! – Isabel

@Isabel I don't think so, but I don't even know if it it still compatible with the latest Eclipse: that was 5 years ago. – Vestment

Ohh, ok. I don't see the date of the posting. So no Problem, I got my poEdit up and running with zf2, so I'll better use this. This seems to be the best choice for translation anyway. – Isabel

Answer 2

Here are some good alternatives to Poedit:

Translation editors

• Lokalize: for KDE users (KBabel is now obsolete).
• GTranslator: for GNOME users.
• GTed_{dead link}: runs everywhere Eclipse runs.
• Virtaal: Windows, Linux, Mac. Good choice for GNOME users.

Text editor

• Vim: you can use the Vim script for po files Editing
• Emacs: you can use po mode to do your editing.

Other notes

There's a php application that would be useful for collaborative editing. Actually synchronizing with a subversion system would solve the problem anyways with any of these tools. However, if anyone does remember more applications, feel free to add.

Bittner

didn't I mention I wanted something for vista? – Gyniatrics

GTranslator is great. Perfect – Drubbing

Please change the "Url" of Virtaal. It is virtaal.translatehouse.org and not virtaal.org (Spam page) – Maximilianus

I changed the link. The old link indeed was spam link. – Willywillynilly

Answer 3

Just for reference: Google Translator Toolkit allows translation of po-Files since 2012. I never really used it though.

Laager

I just tried this and it doesn't appear to support PO files anymore. – Rehabilitation

Translator Toolkit is now discontinued. Clicking the link just redirects to a support document. – Thumping

Answer 4

I'd suggest Virtaal which is cross-platform and very simple to setup and use yet very powerful.

Timothee

It doesn't parse your source files though. Just saying. – Addie

I found this to be the least painful option. It generally gets out of your way, doesn't force you to learn its own workflow and is one of the few editors that lets you easily add terms beyond what it finds in the template. – Nonesuch

Answer 5

Take a look at poeditor.com. Looks nice and does what we need in terms of collaboration.

Diapositive

Answer 6

On Windows you might consider using Bettter PO Editor or gorm.

Atlantis

Answer 7

I've been working with Transifex for a while. It's not really a good editor as such, but a collaborative platform for translations. They have reasonable editing facilities online. It also allows you to pull translations down to work with them locally, so I'd also love to see a good editor.

Johanajohanan

Answer 8

LocFactory is another alternative - sorry, it's OSX only, but it might be useful to others reading this post.

Unfortunately I've found poEdit to be the best of a pretty bad bunch. I'd love to find a replacement.

Hightail

LocFactory seems to be dead according to an email conversation with Mike Butler, mainly because of the Apple Java/Cocoa debacle. – Johanajohanan