django-garnett VS Weblate

Django Garnett – simple multilingual models for Django\ (5 comments)

We built Django-Garnett because we had a monolithic Django app and wanted to backport multilingual support for our clients in, without having to change references to fields in our templates and code in potentially thousands of places.

It allows clients to add and remove languages on-the-fly and means app developers only have to add a middleware and don’t have to change their Django ORM code very much at all.

We’re going to do a big engineering post on it, but in a huge code base, apart from the effort of building this library, and some UX design for the language switcher, it was a relatively painless process converting a monolingual app into a multilingual one.

We have a fun demo site that shows it in action here: https://django-garnett.herokuapp.com/

For translations I can recommend you to use sites such as Crowdin, OneSky, Transifex, Weblate. Lot of smaller (singe or small team) developers are handling translations with the help of their users. You would be surprised how easy and how fast it is to manage translations at no (or nearly) cost this way. There is a lot of users willing to help to translate the app to their native languages.

weblate.org — It's free for libre projects up to 10,000 string source for the free tier, and Unlimited Self-hosted on-premises.

WebLate (their projects dashboard)

I'm using weblate.org. It's open source so it made the most sense to me to use for an open source Android app. It can also be used for free. It's not trivial to use but can be managed.

if the author of the app use a public translation service like https://weblate.org/ or https://crowdin.com/ you can do it via web browser.

For translation, using a Weblate instance makes a lot more sense over using Google Sheets https://github.com/WeblateOrg/weblate

hosted.weblate.org is only free for open-source projects, but it shouldn't be hard to find alternative hosting, or launch a Docker container in the cloud??

If there is not any, i can recommend Weblate, which is open source translation platform and hosting is free on their side for open source projects, or you can also self-host it.