The following intro is a paid product review for Localazy, a software localization and translation management platform for developers and software teams.

If you're an app or website developer, no doubt you want your product to be accessible to as many people as possible. Often the challenge in expanding your audience is language barriers. For example, if your app is exclusively for English-speaking users, you might be shutting out more than 4 billion people from your audience potential.

Localazy is a software localization and translation management platform that addresses this problem, allowing you and your team to streamline your product's translation work.



Localazy has integrations with just about any app platform or technology — iOS, Android, Figma, React, React Native, Markdown, TypeScript, Strapi, and lots more. If you're a developer, you can use any of the code or technology integrations to make Localazy part of your regular workflow.

Localazy can be set up in just a few minutes, allowing you to translate your app or website content into more than 80 languages. Once you create your account, your dashboard allows you to add projects, from which you can search for and enable integrations.



The easy-to-use dashboard lets you manage unlimited projects, add multiple contributors, and even start a glossary to ensure consistent terminology is used throughout any given project.
 

An example of where a glossary might be useful is if you have a specific word or phrase that you don't want to be translated, but you instead want to use it as a universal term in its English format (e.g. the word "tweet" can refer to something a bird does, but in the context of Twitter it means something else). 
Other examples where a glossary helps is with terms that mean something in the IT industry but mean something else in other contexts (e.g. "drive", "link", "bit", etc).



Adding languages to a project in Localazy is easy and the platform also includes a really neat feature called shared translations. This allows you to use crowdsourced words and phrases that have already been voluntarily translated by others, helping you save on translation costs.

Localazy also allows you to put your product's internationalization on autopilot. This is what Localazy calls continuous localization. You can order professional translation services and have those translations reviewed, and this is all done through your dashboard.

Some other features of Localazy worth checking out are:

All in all, Localazy is a powerful and feature-rich translation platform that you should definitely consider if your team is looking to expand its content to new regions. The Localazy docs have a good getting started guide to get you up and running quickly.


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