Lokalise

Nick Ustinov

Dmitry Olenovs

Ilya Krukowski

Translation keys, platforms, keys advanced features, translation files, and supported files formats.

Keys and files

Learn how to properly set up and use keys and platforms in Lokalise.

Keys and platforms

Learn how to manage your translation keys in the editor, link keys to platforms and screenshots, modify their names and other attributes.

Key editor and key actions

Give your translators and team members more context by uploading screenshots of your app or website.

Screenshots

Lokalise automatically handles plural forms for all languages. Learn how to use plurals.

Plurals

Translation keys

You can apply various bulk actions to the selected keys.

Bulk actions

Use the predefined filters or customize them to any level of complexity.

Filter

Often the same strings appear at different places in your app. Learn how to use key linking and merging to avoid duplicates.

Duplicate translations

Key referencing allows linking one key to another at translation level. Never again translate same strings twice.

Key referencing

Learn how to restrict the maximum number of characters in the key translation.

Character limit

Use key custom attributes to set format-specific options.

Custom key attributes

Learn how to eliminate duplicates in your localization projects when you have the same app for multiple platforms.

Merging existing iOS and Android keys

Learn about bulk actions, finding duplicates, setting limits, creating references, and applying filters to translation keys.

Keys advanced features

Learn about filenames and different approaches to file naming with CLI import/export examples.

Filenames

Learn how to upload your translation files to Lokalise.

Uploading translation files

Learn how to download translation data to your PC and customize the process.

Downloading translation files

Learn how filenames are organized on Lokalise, how to import and export translation files.

Translation files

Android Resources (.xml)

Apple Strings (.strings)

Apple Stringsdict (.stringsdict)

Apple XLIFF (.xliff)

Application Resource Bundle (.arb)

Comma-separated values (.csv)

DOCX

Upload your translations in Excel format!

Excel (.xls, .xlsx)

Gettext (.po, .pot)

HTML

InDesign (.idml)

Java Properties (.properties)

JavaScript Object (.js)

JSON flat (.json)

JSON nested (.json)

Structured JSON

.NET resources (.resx)

Objective-C/Cocoa Properties (.plist)

PHP Arrays (.php)

PHP Laravel language files (.php)

PHP INI (.ini)

PowerPoint (.pptx)

Qt Linguist (.ts)

React Native (i18n, .js)

Salesforce Translation (.stf)

SubRip (.srt)

YAML

Xcode Localization Catalog (XCLOC)

XLIFF (.xlf, .xliff)

Arthur Ziborov

Learn about every file format Lokalise supports.

Supported file formats

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