Turn your strings into a readable fake translation, with accents, extra length, and brackets, to find hard-coded text and layouts that break before you translate.
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[Šáṽé óñé]
5 strings pseudo-localized
[Šáṽé óñé]
[Ŵéļçóɱé ƀáçķ, {name}! óñé ţŵó ţĥŕé]
[Ýóú ĥáṽé %d ñéŵ ɱéššáĝéš. óñé ţŵó ţĥŕéé]
[{count, plural, one {# ƒíļé úþļóáðéð} other {# ƒíļéš úþļóáðéð}} óñé ţŵó ţĥŕé]
[Ŕéáð óúŕ <a href="/terms">ţéŕɱš óƒ šéŕṽíçé</a>. óñé ţŵó ţĥŕéé ƒó]/ Altified
Altified translates your website and keeps every language in sync as you ship, with placeholders and markup preserved.
Paste plain strings or upload a resource file. Keys and structure stay the same, only values change, so you can drop the output in as an extra locale and switch to it in your app.
Add a pseudo-locale to your development and QA builds as soon as strings are externalized. Every untranslated or clipped string you find then is one that never reaches real users in another language.
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Pseudo-localization replaces your source strings with a fake translation that is still readable, such as [Šáṽé óñé] for Save. Running the app in that pseudo-locale shows hard-coded text, truncated labels, and encoding problems before any real translation is paid for.
Accented characters reveal fonts and encodings that break on non-ASCII text. Extra length shows layouts that cannot fit longer languages such as German. Brackets show text that is cut off or joined from fragments, and any string without accents is hard-coded.
Translated text is often 30% longer than English, and short labels can double. The realistic setting follows IBM's guideline: up to 100% for strings of 10 characters or fewer, falling to 30% for long sentences.
Yes. Placeholders such as {name}, {{count}}, %s, %1$d, and ${value}, HTML tags, entities, and ICU plural and select syntax are left unchanged. Only the readable text inside them is altered.
It wraps each word in Unicode bidi override characters, like Android's ar-XB pseudo-locale, so you can check mirrored layouts and icons without an Arabic or Hebrew translation.
Android ships en-XA (accented) and ar-XB (bidi) pseudo-locales. This tool produces the same kind of output for any file format, so you can use it on the web, iOS, or backend projects.