A local alternative to Lokalise, Crowdin and BabelEdit

Lokalise and Crowdin are online platforms: the translation project lives on their servers, every participant has an account, and integrations (GitHub, GitLab…) sync strings with your repository. They also offer machine translation, translation memory and, at Lokalise, ordering professional translations.

BabelEdit and LocalePilot are desktop apps: you open your project files and edit them in place. BabelEdit covers many web frameworks and Flutter (JSON, YAML, ARB, XLIFF…). LocalePilot focuses on Flutter and Apple: ARB, .strings, .xcstrings and the App Store listing.

Formats, features and prices change: check each tool's website before you choose (Lokalise, Crowdin, BabelEdit; descriptions checked on their websites on September 27, 2026).

• You ship a Flutter or iOS app and your files are ARB, JSON, .strings or .xcstrings.
• You want no account and no server: your files stay in your repository, on your machine.
• You want placeholder QA (ICU, %@, %1$@…) before every export.
• You translate with the AI you choose, free and local or cloud with your key.
• You also want to translate your App Store listing in your fastlane files.

• Translators or an agency need to work in the same project as you.
• You need continuous sync, roles and shared history.

LocalePilot does no cloud sync and no team collaboration: it is a tool for the person who owns the files.