This table provides feature comparison among various translation tools, both Free (FOSS) and commercial.
Virtaal | Wordforge | Poedit | G-Translator | Lokalize | KBabel | OLT XLIFF Editor | Loc Factory Editor | Emacs PO mode | Transolution | Omega-T | Wordfast | Swordfish | Heartsome | |
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FOSS | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | – | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | – | – | – |
Active | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | – | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | – | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Implementation | 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 | ? | ? | ✔ | ? | – | – | ✔ | ? | ? | ? | ? | ✔ | ✔ | ? |