linguaedit 1.8.8

A Qt6/PySide6 translation file editor for PO, TS, JSON, XLIFF, Android, ARB, PHP, and YAML files

LinguaEdit

Professional translation editor built with PySide6/Qt6 — by a translator, for translators.

LinguaEdit is a feature-rich, cross-platform translation editor that supports 17+ file formats, translation memory, AI-powered review, and a modern UI designed for productive translation workflows.

🌐 Website: www.linguaedit.org 📦 Releases: GitHub Releases 📝 Changelog: CHANGELOG.md 🐛 Issues: GitHub Issues

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📸 Screenshots

Main Editor

Translation Engines

Validation

Statistics

Video Subtitle Extraction

Glossary Management

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📦 Installation

pip / pipx (recommended)

# Install with pipx (isolated environment)
pipx install linguaedit

# Or with pip
pip install linguaedit

# Run
linguaedit-gui

Debian / Ubuntu

# Add repository
curl -fsSL https://yeager.github.io/debian-repo/yeager-repo.gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/yeager-repo.gpg
echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/yeager-repo.gpg] https://yeager.github.io/debian-repo stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yeager.list

# Install
sudo apt update
sudo apt install linguaedit

# Note: PySide6 is not available as a system package on most distros.
# Install it via pip:
pip install PySide6

Fedora / RHEL / openSUSE

# Add repository
sudo dnf config-manager --add-repo https://yeager.github.io/rpm-repo/yeager.repo

# Install
sudo dnf install linguaedit

# Install PySide6:
pip install PySide6

macOS

# Via pipx
pipx install linguaedit

# For proper menu bar name and file associations,
# download LinguaEdit.app from GitHub Releases

Windows

Download the self-contained .exe from GitHub Releases — no Python installation required.

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✨ Features

📄 17+ File Formats

Format	Extensions	Notes
PO / POT	.po, .pot	GNU Gettext
Qt Linguist	.ts	XML format
XLIFF	.xliff, .xlf	Version 1.2 & 2.0
SDLXLIFF	.sdlxliff	Trados with segment definitions
MQXLIFF	.mqxliff	memoQ with namespace detection
JSON	.json	Flat & nested i18n
YAML	.yml, .yaml	i18n files
Android XML	.xml	strings.xml
ARB	.arb	Flutter Application Resource Bundle
PHP	.php	Array format
Java Properties	.properties	Key=value
Apple Strings	.strings	Localizable.strings
Unity Asset	.asset	Unity localization
RESX	.resx	.NET resource files
Chrome i18n	.json	messages.json
Godot	.tres	Godot translation resources
Subtitles	.srt, .vtt	SubRip & WebVTT
TMX	.tmx	Translation Memory eXchange

🔍 Editor & Navigation

• Multi-tab editing — work on multiple files simultaneously
• Smart search & replace with regex, case sensitivity, whole word
• Status filters — All, Untranslated, Fuzzy, Translated, Reviewed, With Warnings
• Sort modes — File order, alphabetical, by length, untranslated first, by reference
• Inline editing — double-click entries in the list
• Drag & drop files to open
• Bookmarks — star entries for quick access
• Tags — organize entries with custom tags
• Minimap — visual overview of file status

🧘 Zen Translation Mode

Distraction-free translation workflow (Ctrl+Shift+Z):

• Source text (read-only) + translation (editable)
• Progress bar at top
• Tab = save + next untranslated
• Escape = exit Zen mode

⌨️ Keyboard Shortcuts

Shortcut	Action
Ctrl+O	Open file
Ctrl+S	Save
Ctrl+H	Search & Replace
Ctrl+U	Toggle fuzzy
Alt+Enter	Next untranslated
Ctrl+Shift+↑/↓	Previous/next fuzzy
Ctrl+Enter	Copy source to translation
Tab	Save + next entry
Shift+Tab	Save + previous entry
Ctrl+Shift+Z	Zen Mode
Ctrl+D	Project Dashboard
Ctrl+Shift+D	Git Diff
Ctrl+Alt+T	Batch Translate
Ctrl+Shift+F	Focus Mode (untranslated only)
F11	Fullscreen
Ctrl+R	Run linter
Ctrl+Shift+A	AI Review

🧠 Translation Memory (TM)

• SQLite-based, zero configuration
• Fuzzy matching with configurable threshold
• Auto-learning from your translations
• Autocomplete suggestions while typing
• Import/export TMX files
• Propagate identical translations across entries

📖 Glossary

• Term management with source → target pairs
• Domain tagging
• Consistency checking across the project
• Import/export CSV
• Real-time term highlighting in editor

🤖 AI & Machine Translation

• Inline MT suggestions — DeepL/OpenAI suggestions appear as you translate
• Batch Machine Translate (Ctrl+Alt+T) — translate all untranslated at once
• AI Review (Ctrl+Shift+A) — quality scoring with heuristic fallback
• Back-translation verification — detect meaning drift
• Confidence scores per entry with visual indicators
• Supported engines: DeepL, OpenAI, Google, Lingva, MyMemory

✅ Quality Assurance

• 15+ linting checks:
  • Missing translations
  • Placeholder/format string mismatches (%s, {0}, etc.)
  • HTML/XML tag mismatches
  • Accelerator key mismatches (&)
  • Length ratio warnings
  • Duplicate translations
  • Case mismatches
  • CLDR plural form validation
  • Number localization (thousands separator, currency, dates)
  • Inconsistent translations
  • Trailing whitespace/punctuation
• Spell check — red wavy underlines with suggestions and custom dictionary
• Regex tester — validate format strings
• Layout simulator — pixel width checking for UI text
• Unicode inspector — detect invisible/suspicious characters

📊 Project Dashboard (Ctrl+D)

• Per-language translation progress bars
• Pie chart and bar chart (QPainter-based, no external deps)
• Total string counts and summary stats
• Export statistics as CSV

🔀 Git Integration

• Git Diff (Ctrl+Shift+D) — compare with previous commits
• Detect outdated translations (source changed, translation didn't)
• Stage, commit, branch management from within the editor
• File change monitoring with auto-reload

🎬 Video Subtitle Translation

• FFmpeg integration — extract subtitles from video files (.mkv, .mp4, .avi, etc.)
• Auto video preview — opening a .srt/.vtt automatically finds and shows the matching video
• Editable timestamps — time intervals as a dedicated column
• Progress bar during extraction with percentage
• User-friendly dialog when FFmpeg is not installed

🔐 Security

• Cross-platform credential storage:
  • macOS: Keychain
  • Windows: Credential Locker
  • Linux: Secret Service (GNOME Keyring / KWallet)
  • Fallback: AES-encrypted file with master password (PBKDF2, 480k iterations)
• Security status visible in Preferences → Security

🌐 Platform Integration

• Transifex — community translations with daily GitHub Actions sync (18 languages)
• File associations — double-click .po, .ts, .xliff, etc. to open (macOS + Linux)
• macOS .app bundle with proper menu bar name and icon
• Linux .desktop file with MIME type definitions

🎨 Themes & UI

• 5 built-in themes including comprehensive dark mode
• Horizontal/vertical layout toggle — editor on right or below
• Auto-collapsing side panel — hides when empty
• Context-aware toolbar — customizable, with overflow menu
• Colored entry borders — red (untranslated), orange (fuzzy), green (translated)
• Save flash animation — green border flash confirming save
• Fullscreen mode (F11)
• Syntax highlighting for HTML tags, format strings, escape sequences

🧪 Testing

• 90 unit tests covering parsers, linter, TM, settings, and security

🛠️ Advanced Tools

• Macro recording — record and replay translation actions
• Plugin system — extend functionality
• Gamification — achievements and streaks
• Pomodoro timer — built-in focus timer
• TTS — hear translations read aloud
• OCR — extract text from images
• Locale map — visual overview of project languages
• Burndown charts — track translation progress over time
• QA profiles — configurable validation rule sets

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🌍 Translations

LinguaEdit is translated via Transifex with 1,487 source strings and 18 languages configured. Translations sync daily via GitHub Actions.

Currently translated:

• Swedish — 100%

Help translate LinguaEdit into your language! Join us on Transifex — no coding required.

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🏗️ Building from Source

# Clone
git clone https://github.com/yeager/linguaedit.git
cd linguaedit

# Install in development mode
pip install -e .

# Run
linguaedit-gui

# Compile translations
pyside6-lrelease translations/linguaedit_sv.ts -qm translations/linguaedit_sv.qm

Dependencies

• Python 3.10+
• PySide6 >= 6.5
• Optional: ffmpeg (video subtitle extraction), hunspell (spell checking)

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📦 Package Repositories

Debian/Ubuntu (apt)

deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/yeager-repo.gpg] https://yeager.github.io/debian-repo stable main

RPM (dnf/yum)

https://yeager.github.io/rpm-repo/

See debian-repo and rpm-repo for setup instructions.

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📄 License

GPL-3.0-or-later — see LICENSE.

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👤 Author

Daniel Nylander — Dedicated contributor to Swedish open-source localization, with translations of Ubuntu, GNU binutils, Ardour, util-linux, Weblate, and many more projects.

• 🌐 danielnylander.se
• 🐙 github.com/yeager