The project editor is what you see when you open a project on Lokalise. This is your main workspace where you'll perform translations, manage keys, screenshots, languages, add comments, and perform other actions.

Below you will find a brief summary of the main controls. Each button also has a tooltip, so simply hover your mouse over each element to see a short description.

This view is useful for team leaders and contributors working on multiple languages simultaneously, as it offers an opportunity to preview and edit translations for all languages at once.

Use the following control to switch to multilingual view:

Here's an example of a multilingual view:

This view provides maximum space and allows you to focus when working with single language translations.

Use the following control to switch to a bilingual view:

Here's an example of a bilingual view. You can choose the source and the target languages from the dropdowns in the top menu:

Each key is displayed in a separate section: scroll down to see more keys using either regular scrolling or our magic scroll. On the far left, the key name, with all associated attributes, is displayed. These include tags, screenshots and quick actions.

Key-related actions (grey icons):

Simply click the field next to the desired target language to start entering the translation. Use Ctrl+Up to switch to the next value and Ctrl+Down to return to the previous one. Below the textbox, you will find a number of convenient extras, such as autocomplete and a character counter.

The editor offers free automated translation suggestions from multiple popular machine translation engines. You can use those to help you or order a professional translation from our marketplace.

Lokalise supports translation key modification. To change key names or properties, simply click on the key name in the editor. Please note, this option is only available to project owners and can be globally deactivated in project settings.

There is a checkbox on the left side of each key. You can select multiple keys and perform a mass action with the selection. The blue floating bar with available mass actions pops up once you select a key.

Use magic scroll on the right side to quickly navigate through keys. You can hover the mouse over the scroll bar to see which key it would navigate to.

Use the Remember position in project button to automatically save your position as you leave the editor, so it returns you to the same position following a page reload:

Use filters while editing translations in Lokalise in order to view only the desired strings or keys. For example, you can choose to see only the untranslated strings or only those belonging to iOS. Choose from the predefined filters in the drop-down menu, or create a custom filter by selecting the New filter… option and defining the desired conditions.

Click on the following icon to filter your keys by their screenshots (please note that this button won't be visible if you don't have any screenshots in the project):

In this mode, you will only see the screenshots that have keys linked to them, and, correspondingly, only keys with attached screenshots. Additionally, you can also filter the screenshots by their tags.

By default, the editor displays the last added keys first. Choose a different criterion from the drop-down list, if required.

Sorting options labeled as “A-Z” (ascending) and “Z-A” (descending) use lexicographical order. This means elements are compared character by character using their ASCII values, without special handling for numbers. For example, in this sorting style, “11” appears before “2” because the first character “1” is compared directly to “2”, and “1” comes before “2” in ASCII.

This approach does not apply natural number ordering (where numbers are sorted by their numeric values, like 1, 2, 10). Instead, it treats numbers as plain strings.

Additionally, sorting is applied to the entire key (e.g., “part1::part2::part3”), not to its individual parts (like “part1”, “part2”, and “part3”). This ensures the whole string is evaluated as one unit.

Quickly add a new language to the project by clicking the "plus" button next to the existing language icons.

Click More next to the language name to access its Settings:

Use the Files widget to manage your files:

Lokalise has a powerful built-in translation memory, which is shared between all existing team projects and members. Everything that you (or any other team member) type in the editor, upload or set via an API, is automatically saved in the translation memory for later use.

When you start translating texts that are similar to the ones already stored in the memory, you'll be provided with inline suggestions:

Suggestions with match percentages lower than 50% won't be displayed.

Also, for each suggestion you can see:

Once an admin assigns a task to you, it shows up in the Incoming tasks widget. You will see the task title, description and target languages along with the progress statistics.

Lokalise offers a key comments widget that you can access by clicking the Comments button in the left menu:

Also you can click on the Comments icon under a translation key or next to a translation to write a key-level or a translation-level comment:

In the comments widget you can mention other people using @ character and view comments for other keys in different projects.