Poedit

2.0.8

Software information

License:

Freeware (Free)


Updated:

05 Jun 2018


Publisher:

Vaclav Slavik

Website:

http://poedit.net

Software Screenshots

Size: 15.08 MB


Downloads: 7233


Platform: Windows (All Versions)

Review by George Norman (Cybersecurity Editor)

on 03 Oct 2012

Available for multiple platforms for the exceptional price of free, the Poedit application developed by Vaclav Slavik can be used to edit .PO files. It is a highly praised tool to be used for computer aided translations – a tool that’s been around for more than a decade and gathered quite a following during all this time.

As previously mentioned, Poedit is available for multiple platforms. This cross-platform application is available for Microsoft’s Windows operating system, for Apple’s Mac OS X, and for Linux. To install Poedit on your Windows-powered PC, you must download and run a 5.4MB executable; a setup wizard will show up and take you through the installation process. There’s nothing complicated about it and you’ll be done in little time.

Poedit’s user friendly interface presents the source text and the corresponding translations, as well as a “Notes for translators” in the bottom right hand corner. At the top, in the upper left hand corner, you will find a File Menu and a bar with buttons for opening a gettext catalog, for editing comments, and more. From the Preferences menu you can get the UI to use one of several supported languages. Besides English, it provides support for Italian, Spanish, French, German, Turkish, Ukrainian, and many other languages.

With Poedit, you can open an existing gettext catalog or you can create one of your own. No matter which option you go for, one thing remains unchanged: the entries in that catalog are arranged in a compact list so that you can easily edit them. That is the functionality that Poedit offers without asking for any money in return: it lets you edit .PO files, thus helping with the process of language localization.

If you enjoy using Poedit, consider making a donation. The money you donate will go towards supporting the application’s development.

Poedit’s powerful functionality makes it an exceptional tool for editing gettext catalogs (.PO files).

Pros

Poedit is available for multiple platforms: Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. Poedit is free and open source. The application features a user friendly interface that shows data in a compact way. Use Poedit to edit gettext catalogs. Features include spellchecking, catalogs managers, comments editing, automatic headers update, whitespaces highlighting, references browser, and more.

Cons

None that I could think of.

Poedit
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Poedit Editor’s Review Rating

Poedit has been reviewed by George Norman on 03 Oct 2012. Based on the user interface, features and complexity, Findmysoft has rated Poedit 5 out of 5 stars, naming it Essential

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