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Lilt

4.1 out of 5
Out of 45 user reviews.


A CAT tool that learns the way you translate. Features predictive typing and the world's first commercial machine translation system that learns in real-time while you work. Based on Stanford research. Try it now for free.



Software details


PriceFree Trial; Pro version coming in mid-2016
File formatsMS Office 2007+, XLIFF, SDLXLIFF, TXT, HTML, XML, TXML, IDML
License typeSoftware as a service (subscription)
System requirements
Operating systemWindows, MacOS, Linux
System requirementsA modern browser: Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and/or Internet Explorer 11+
CompatibilityRuns in the browser
Support & upgrades
Support and upgrades offered/includedFree technical support via support ticket center, Free updates, but not upgrades
Support and tutorial linkshttp://lilt.com/
Free trial
Free trialYes
Languages supportedEnglish↔Spanish, English↔French, and English↔German




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5 out of 5
How easy is it to learn?

Great tool, simple, fast and easy-to-learn that increases productivity and quality in translation
Review by 
Nota Chatzopoulou . I have been working for Lilt since April 2019.
I really enjoyed Lilt's modern, responsive, simple, fast and easy-to-learn platform! It is a great tool that works better the more I use it and has helped me work faster and more efficiently. The MT suggestions are useful and accurate.
Sometimes the platform is slow but it is very important that the company asks feedback from users and constantly working to improve the system.
The team is also friendly and helpful and the payments are prompt. It's been a pleasure to work with such a reliable, innovative and technologically advanced company.
1 out of 3 found this review helpful.





4 out of 5
How easy is it to learn?

Easy to use, friendly interface
Review by 
GalileoTrans . I’ve been using Lilt for a couple of years, along with MemoQ and more rarely, Trados. Lilt is very easy to learn and to use. I like the clean interface and the intuitive features. It’s a lot less intimidating for new translators than other CAT tools, it’s very sleek, modern and uncluttered. Bugs are quickly resolved and online support is available 24/h, which is of the utmost importance when you work with time sensitive projects (80% of a translator’s work). The ability to sign in and work from any computer is probably my favorite feature.
What I’d like to see soon: a “sort by” feature that would allow me to sort segments by size, keyword, repetition % etc.
👍🏼 Very good platform, always improving.
1 out of 4 found this review helpful.





4 out of 5
How easy is it to learn?

One of the best tools I've ever used
Review by 
Luis Medina . Lilt is one of the best CAT tools I've ever used. Over my 10 years as a full-time translator, I've used several CAT tools, and I continue to use Lilt ever since it was launched.

I like it for the speed at which I can complete the translation of a file. With Lilt I've been able to reach over 1000 words of translation per hour. Their tag management feature has improved greatly over the years and it's become easier to manipulate tags. The machine translation engine really learns your translation style, and although the suggestions are not always perfect (which MT engine is always perfect?), it usually handles well sentences that are not too long or which do not have subordinate sentences.

What do you do with longer sentences? Lilt supports dictation software, like Dragon Naturally Speaking, which is of great help once you realize you can combine MT and dictation to complete a sentence in seconds.

Although Lilt also offers a QA system that you can use and works well, you can also download the file from Lilt and feed it to different quality assurance tool like Xbench or Verifika.

I am a member of the Lilt Translator Community and I cannot end this review without mentioning that the company is the fastest paying client I have.

Lilt is an innovative company with a technologically advanced translation tool that has helped me work faster and better in the past few years. Is the tool perfect in every way? No, no translation tool is perfect, but the support team is always there to look into issues that may affect your work with the tool.
1 out of 4 found this review helpful.





4 out of 5
How easy is it to learn?

Easy to learn, efficient ML
Review by 
Izumi Sakamoto . I've used Trados for a while but never learned the full scale of the software due to its complexity.
This is really easy to learn, and the ML suggestions are pretty spot-on so I was able to increase my productivity to almost two-fold.
It might lack some in-depth features of other CAT tools, but just focusing on translating, it makes the work really efficient.
0 out of 2 found this review helpful.





5 out of 5
How easy is it to learn?

The best Cat tool!
Review by 
LINHARES . The best Cat tool I have ever used!!! The interface is pretty easy and without all the useless clutters seen in other Cat tools. It is very rewarding to see that all the corrections and changes you make to during the translations are "being learned" by the software. It is also incredibly fast. I could translated around 830 words per hour!
6 out of 15 found this review helpful.