Feature comparison of translation tools
This table provides feature comparison among various translation tools, both Free (FOSS) and commercial. As the table is rather wide, you will have to scroll down to see it; it is placed there so that the table does not obscure or overlap the navigation links on the right hand side of this page.
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| Virtaal | · Word- forge | Poedit | G- Trans- lator | Lokalize | KBabel | OLT XLIFF Editor | Loc Factory Editor | Emacs PO mode | Tran- solution | · Omega- T | · Word- fast | · Sword- fish | · Heart- some | |
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| FOSS | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | - | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | - | - | - |
| Active | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | - | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | - | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Implemen- tation | Python/ GTK+ | Python/ Qt | C++/ wxWidgets | C/ GNOME | C++/ Qt/KDE4 | C++/ Qt/KDE3 | Java/ Swing | Java/ Cocoa | Elisp | Python/ GTK | Java/ Swing |  | Java | Java/ Swing |
| Platform | ||||||||||||||
| Windows | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | - | ✔ | unofficial | ✔ | - | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Linux | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | - | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | - | ✔ | ✔ |
| MacOS X | | in X11 | in X11 | - | in X11 | in X11 | ✔ | pre- 10.6 | ✔ | | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Supported formats | ||||||||||||||
| PO | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | - | ✔ | - | ✔ | - |
| XLIFF | ✔ | ✔ | - | - | ✔ | - | ✔ | ✔ | - | ✔ | - | - | ✔ | ✔ |
| TBX | ✔ | ✔ | - | - | ✔ | - | - | | - | - | | Pro (import) | ✔ | ✔ |
| Qt Lin- guist(.ts) | ✔ | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ✔ | - |
| Qt Phrase- book(.qph) | ✔ | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Translation memory | ||||||||||||||
| TMX | ✔ | ✔ | - | | ✔ | ✔ | - | ✔ | - | | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| WordFast TM (.txt) | ✔ | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ✔ | - | - |
| Internal format | | | ✔ | | - | - | ✔ | | | | | ✔ | ✔ | |
