Lilt vs. Smartling

Lilt is a great platform for translating and reviewing content for mainstream languages that are spoken by a large number of people such as Spanish, French, etc. in which case the machine translation tool does a great job of adding the appropriate fluency, grammar, and punctuations. The QA checks also likewise provide apt feedback with rarely any errors. The only shortfall for Lilt is when the content to be translated belongs to any non-mainstream languages (such as regional Indian state ones) and the most noticeable errors are thrown by the QA check tools which have several long-standing unfixed bugs.

Incentivized

Smartling is great for a company or team that doesn't have the resources to translate multiple properties in-house. It automates the process and makes it much more manageable. If you have a large website that is managed by one local team and not a global team, Smartling is for you.

Incentivized

• Provide exact and fuzzy match feedback for translations
• Provide step by step segmented workflow for translating
• Great QA checks including Batch and Full to help detecting errors
• Good machine translation feedback to help translators

Incentivized

• Excellent customer support reps that are available for any and all questions.
• Detailed interface that allows you to control pretty much everything yourself.
• Comprehensive help center containing articles and videos.

Incentivized

• Provide greater quality feedback for non-mainstream languages such as Indian regional
• Improve punctuation and grammar fluency for non-mainstream languages
• Fix long standing bug issues in QA check reporting mechanism

Incentivized

• We look forward to seeing more in-depth reporting and user management features specifically for translation agencies that handle multiple client accounts

I have never seen a software company working so diligently to make improvements in a constant and consistent way. Their tool has truly transformed and made a great impact to localization industry

I always receive timely and pleasant support from their Help Desk!

We prefer Smartling as an online CAT tool because it is easy to use and we can onboard new translators quickly without lengthy training cycles. Our customers like Smartling because they can manage all of their translation needs (website, apps, business documents) through one single platform, share style guides, glossaries and translation memory and save on translation cost over time.

• Lilt is helping my organization localize its products to a lot more languages
• Helps translating large content data like web pages with ease
• Improves overall quality of work done and hence help gain more clients

Incentivized

• Helped us win 3 enterprise deals where localization is a must- got us an additional $XXXk ARR.

Incentivized