The Best Free Software for Localization
[contextazon id=’1′] DeepL is the best free machine translation engine you can find online for the languages it supports. This is of course just our opinion but it is based on many translations we have finished to test this service. The translations provided by DeepL are in general better than […]
[contextazon id=’1′] And now for something a little different we have a free online service where you can check if someone contacting you is listed as a scammer or if someone is using your identity to scam others. The Translator Scammers Directory is a website that provides you with free […]
[contextazon id=’1′] Dropbox Paper is a nice free online service/tool to collaborate with others by saving documents, pictures, or other files in the cloud and share them with those working on the same project with you. Everyone in your team can modify the documents, or contribute to the project by […]
[contextazon id=’1′] DuoLingo is a free online service to learn a language and it has a bunch of different languages to choose from. Among the 27 languages you will find French, German, Italian, Russian, Hebrew, Vietnamese, Korean, and even Klingon (for those translators who are working or wish to work […]
[contextazon id=’1′] Bitrix24 is an excellent free online project management solution or customer relationship management (CRM) software with unlimited projects, tasks and subtasks. It includes time tracking, task automation workflows, Gantt chart, document management and task collaboration tools (e.g. group chat and video conferencing). Bitrix24 is completely free for up […]
[contextazon id=’1′] The online CAT tool SmartCAT is a free multifunction work environment for professional translators All key translation automation instruments are combined into a single solution. Apart from translation memory, SmartCAT offers state-of-the-art machine translation, customer glossary support and automatic quality checks. To start your work, just open a […]
[contextazon id=’1′] Zoho Invoice also provides a free option but only allows to send 5 invoices per month! The interface is clean, intuitive and easy to use. Zoho Invoice is probably the closest to FreshBooks (the reigning champion among the invoice generators) one can get. Like its competitors Zoho Invoice […]
[contextazon id=’1′] The free option of Hiveage allows to send unlimited invoices to an unlimited number of clients and to accept payments! You only pay if you decide to upgrade to premium features like estimates/quotes, payment reminders and account statements. PayPal is bundled with Hiveage for free and through a […]
[contextazon id=’1′] In case you need to compile a CV but don’t have much time or don’t know how to start we suggest you try this free online tool. The Translator CV Builder uses a straight forward approach and in just a few steps you create a well structured CV […]
[contextazon id=’1′] Securely transfering large files with DropBox and CryptSync (only for Windows). Both applications are free, with DropBox being a popular cloud storage application and CryptSync an application to encrypt your confidential data before they are uploaded. At first we did hesitate to add DropBox as a means of […]
[contextazon id=’1′] Need to make a call to someone far away or arrange a web or video conference across different time zones? Find the best time across time zones with this free Meeting Planner. Just imagine you found a new client in a group of professionals on LinkedIn and this […]
Wordfast Anywhere is the industry’s largest free and completely confidential web-based TM tool (Translation Memory). Wordfast Anywhere allows translators to work from anywhere they have a web-browser, accessing and sharing TM assets in a secure online translation environment. [contextazon id=’1′] Access Your Data Anywhere, Anytime WFA frees translators from their […]
[contextazon id=’1′] MateCat is an open source, enterprise-level, web-based translation software which closely integrates machine translation and human translation. Using MateCat, you obtain between 10% and 20% more matches for your translations thanks to the largest public translation memory in the world and the best machine translation currently in use. […]
LinkedIn is a free service for professionals that you can leverage to connect to other professionals of your field. [contextazon id=’1′] How do you find clients? You can of course call translation agencies or companies by phone or send them an email to figure out if they are interested in […]
Skype allows you to have a chat or online meeting with a partner or client which can be important if you can not wait for a reply to an email or if a real discussion is needed to clear up some issues for an important task. [contextazon id=’1′] Skype is […]
With FreshBooks freelancers or creative consultants can easily and professionally create invoices and send them to clients from their desk or on the go (Free to use for up to 3 clients). [contextazon id=’1′] FreshBooks is a popular online accounting software and has received several awards for its exceptional customer […]
The Google Translator Toolkit is a free web-based CAT tool that requires a Google account. With the Google Translator Toolkit, translators can organize their work and use shared translations, glossaries and translation memories. They can upload and translate Microsoft Word documents, OpenOffice.org, RTF, HTML, text, Wikipedia articles, and more. [contextazon […]
Google Translate can perform translations from single words to long paragraphs in many language pairs (e.g. English <-> German, English <-> Japanese). Now with Google’s Neural Machine Translation System this free service is better than ever before. After several month of intense testing we can now say that the results […]