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XLIFF Editors
@vslavik
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vslavik commented May 4, 2019

Poedit supports XLIFF since v2.2, including Angular files (GitHub issue: vslavik/poedit#408).

@bobergj
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bobergj commented Jan 17, 2020

Loca Studio supports the XLIFF 1.2 files exported by Xcode.

  • Free
  • Automatic QA checks
  • Native app
  • Distributed on the Mac App Store, sandboxed

(full disclosure: I am the lead developer)

@spock123
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spock123 commented Apr 15, 2020

So in conclusion, no free tool exists that lets you edit , create and update translations files using xliff format.

@CodeAndWeb
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CodeAndWeb commented May 2, 2022

BabelEdit supports XLF, JSON and other translation files.

  • Includes machine translation (Google Translate, DeepL, Bing Translate)
  • Optimized for Angular
  • Installation in Windows, macOS and Linux

@aleksakrstic
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@rmraya
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rmraya commented Jun 14, 2023

So in conclusion, no free tool exists that lets you edit , create and update translations files using xliff format.

Incorrect, you can use Swordfish for that: https://github.com/rmraya/Swordfish

@andrelung
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BabelEdit supports XLF, JSON and other translation files.

  • Includes machine translation (Google Translate, DeepL, Bing Translate)
  • Optimized for Angular
  • Installation in Windows, macOS and Linux

Actually I can't import XLF to BabelEdit. Is there a trick?

@CodeAndWeb
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user334 commented Aug 14, 2024

I've successfully used Loca Studio app @bobergj has mentioned above. Here's my observations:

  1. The app crashed once for no reason. I've lost some work. Gladly, not too much. After that I was manually pressing Cmd+S regularly
  2. The app seems to be made for iOS' apps translation so it kinda thinks you're doing something wrong a bit while editing a file for a mac app. It won't not let you do what you're doing though.

Anyway, I can recommend this app. All the other instruments I found via. my quick search were not usable or were paid.

@mrmadhav
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Hi, I was a bit shocked that such a simple tool did not exist for free online… like i needed just a simple viewer to check the files and not even that existed online; i had to install the mac app to do so… so I decided to quickly spin up a free online viewer here : https://mrmadhav.github.io/xliff-editor/

use and test as you like… its free and opensource..

@rmraya
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rmraya commented Sep 25, 2025

@mrmadhav your tool does no tsupport XLIFF 2.1 or 2.2

@mrmadhav
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@rmraya thanks for the feedback, could you help by posting an issue on the github here: https://github.com/mrmadhav/xliff-editor

If you could provide sample files for testing, it would be very helpful. I have very limited knowledge of xliff and only came upon this file format when working on one of my clients.

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