Better software translations
Rigi is a powerful software localization platform that provides dynamic visual previews of translated software UI which makes linguists, reviewers, and developers’ lives easier, without any additional coding or development support.
Responding to linguists questions went from two days of work per iteration to only two questions in total.”
Chris Evans
Senior Developer, Degreed
Benefits of Rigi Software Localization Tool
Rigi empowers you to streamline your localization process, separating it from your development effort. This results in up to 95% greater efficiency for your linguists, project managers, developers, and technical writers.
Minimize Time Spent on Linguist Queries: Rigi eliminates the need to spend time addressing linguists’ questions. Through dynamic visual previews, both the source and translation become exceptionally clear, reducing ambiguity and cutting down on queries by up to 70%.
Accelerate Agile Development: Rigi’s streamlined translation process accelerates your localization process while enabling software development to remain agile. Make localization and development into parallel flows without making any changes to your code.
Multi-Platform Support: Whether you create with web applications, embedded software, hybrid mobile apps, or WPF, Rigi will instantly provide dynamic previews for your linguists without requiring any involvement from your development team.
Automate Development: Rigi’s API enables the automation of source and target file exchanges, to connect HTML previews to automated UI testing, and enjoy a hassle-free, automated software localization workflow, reducing manual efforts and ensuring consistency.
See Rigi in action
Our dedicated webinar was a great opportunity to see Rigi live and understand how it can revolutionize your localization process.
Watch this webinar on demand to learn more about XTM’s acquisition of Rigi. Ian Evans, CEO of XTM, and Henk Boxma, CEO and Founder of Rigi, shared more information about the acquisition and their vision for the future. Plus, see a brief demonstration of the power of XTM + Rigi.
Frequently Asked Questions
Rigi is a cloud-based technology that provides unique, dynamic visual previews and requires no code changes. Customers using Rigi see 70% fewer queries from translators, and developers spend up to 90% less time supporting translation and language testing processes. Bringing the unique value of dynamic visual previews, Rigi guarantees more accurate translations within less iterations with a faster time-to-market as the ultimate benefit that your software translation project receives.
Rigi creates special files with Rigi tokens that are loaded into your application as a separate language. After this, Rigi can recognize every string in your application and make dynamic previews of every screen in your UI. These previews help translators, reviewers, and project managers to have full control over the localization process. Without any support from developers!
No. We create control and insight for every member of the localization team by adding Rigi language files to your repository, without any code change. It is like a radiologist administering contrast fluid to your body to make the invisible visible.
Yes. Rigi can be used as a standalone Localization Management Platform. With Rigi you manage your localization process from start to end. The major difference with other platforms, is that Rigi does not offer a Translation Memory. Rigi has a different approach by focusing on ID-based localization, which offers similar benefits with superior quality. Read about all the features on this website.
Yes. Rigi offers third-party connectors, which create a seamless integration with translation management systems like XTM, memoQ, Trados and Passolo. You can keep using your existing TMS, and benefit from Rigi’s dynamic visual context. This will upgrade your translation workflow tremendously.
Yes! Four times yes:) Rigi has solutions for all kinds of software applications. Please get in touch with us, to see if you have any doubts about a specific software solution you want to translate in context. We are happy to help you out. We also have parsers for dozens of file formats.
Rigi is designed to support Single Page Applications (SPA), so that will definitely work. Rigi creates snapshots from SPA’s in the form of HTML Previews.
Rigi streamlines software translations by providing full clarity to translators through multilingual screenshots, avoiding the usual hang ups that can come with communication between engineers and linguists. Project managers and translators are given the context they need to make the right linguistic choice more often, with less necessary input from their translation team.
You can watch a recorded webinar above that provides a detailed demonstration of how Rigi operates and how it can revolutionize your localization process.
Yes, Rigi has an API which provides extensive integration capabilities. Importing and exporting of source and target files are only a few of them. Rigi can also be connected to your automated UI-tests, to capture dynamic previews automatically.
We currently don’t offer free trials directly from our website. Please request a demo, where we can show you the added value of Rigi for your application in about 30 minutes.
Rigi is beneficial for SaaS and enterprise-level businesses looking to localize software for multiple languages concurrently, as well as those translating for multi-platform software. By providing dynamic visual previews to translators, more translation work can be done without external input, and fewer iterations will need to be created due to stylistic or inaccurate language usage.
With Rigi, everyone is in control. Localization can keep up with the pace of development. We can now ship new features to the market in all languages faster than ever.“
Maryla Obszarski
Localization Manager, LexisNexis® Intellectual Property Solutions