Overview
A compact guide introducing you to Localesy, a state-of-the-art translation management system designed to streamline your localization workflow across your projects.
What is Localesy?
Localesy is an ecosystem with the main purpose of making translation management and localization simple, accessible and effortless to everyone.
We believe serving localized content should not be exclusive for large enterprises, but should be accessible to companies of all sizes - from small side projects to large ecosystems with multiple projects.
Localesy is made up of two surfaces that share the same source of truth:
- Platform - a web dashboard to manage, translate and review your content.
- CLI - a terminal tool to sync, translate and manage projects straight from your codebase and CI/CD pipelines. See the CLI Overview.
Platform
Platform is a web dashboard, which allows you to interact with your translations and allow adding, modifying and removing content across your projects.
You can also analyze your existing translations, expand to new languages and synchronise with your codebase - all from one place.
Note: Localesy stores its own copy of your translations when you create your project.
This way it can serve as the source of truth for all sorts of applications in the future.
Projects
Projects are where your translations will live. Each project corresponds to your application (for example, your landing page). You can view all your projects on the dashboard and change their settings in the project page.
To create your first project, follow this guide.
Translations
Translations represent the unique languages that your project uses. They can be modified through the translation page by your organization members.
There are two types of translations:
- Base translation - we use this translation as a base when comparing with the rest of translations. Adding or removing records in the base translation will result in removing keys in all regular translations. There can be only 1 base translation selected at the time. You can change your base translation any time in your project settings.
- Regular translation - a translation that's not selected as base translation. You can use AI Translations to modify records of regular translation.
Note: You cannot use AI Translations on your base translation. Base translation is always used as the input for other translations - it can't be used as input to translate itself.
Organizations
Organizations are a way to group projects together and allow accessing them by your team. Each organization can be configured with different team members and billing settings.
Integrations
Integrations allow you to use Localesy as the source of truth for your translations across multiple platforms.
Currently supported integrations:
- Github - connect your project with your Github repository to keep translations in sync.
- CLI - sync and translate from your terminal or CI/CD pipeline. See the CLI Overview.
We plan to expand our integrations in the future to include more platforms and cross-functional solutions including design tools, no-code platforms and more.
AI Translations
Localesy uses AI to translate your content. It allows you to get accurate translations in a matter of seconds, without the need to hire a translator. We support over 50 languages and are constantly expanding our support.
You can run AI translations from the Platform or from the terminal with localesy translate.
AI Translations also support providing custom business context for all your translations. You can provide custom context for your translations through your project settings.
Note: AI Translations quality keeps improving. We are continuously working on the quality of generated translations and expanding the number of supported languages.
If you have any feedback, please let us know at [email protected].