langify ‑ translate your store

Now updating a previous comment from 2017. We are now 5 years later, they changed to langify V2 using Shopify API for a much better experience and I'm still VERY happy with it. All in all, the app does an excellent job translating your full store in different languages. The overall process is straightforward and very user (noob) friendly, and in 99% of the cases, you'll be able to translate any content of your store by yourself. But where langify shines the most, in my opinion, is with their support team. I had to sometimes struggle with some other app support teams not reading carefully or not really eager to solve a seamingly complex problem, but trust me when I tell you their staff is extremely efficient and dedicated! It's very simple : every time I requested help, they provided it to me in no time, providing very smart and useful fix to solve any issue I faced. They are basically all good, but with people like Vera or Sabrina, you are definitely in good hands. I can't thank them enough for all the help.

By today I can say it fully deserves for 5 stars - this app is truly good companion.

Below you can find my previous expierience.....
www.PierreFrancis.co.uk
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----------- Main Review - 17.12.2019 at 12.50 --------------------

a lot of problems when I change or add a page, especially changes to navigation bar. your app starts now mixing everything up - glad it happened in trial period and once I haven't add a lot of content as it is time wasting ! would not recommend at all

----------- Update - 17.12.2019 at 12.53 ---------------

I will give one more try and allow more time for changes to apply. If it works - I will change my rating

----------- Update - 17.12.2019 at 12.53 ---------------

After testing other apps available for my shopify store, I must say I'm coming back to Langify... It needs a lot of work to input everything but as they describing it is much more healthy for my store rather than other rubbish translators with very poor or even lying translation...

Langify deserves attention, for sure... At the moment I believe I will stay with them for much longer. 4 stars not 5 as there is some work needed before it will be fully working

Kind Regards
www.PierreFrancis.co.uk

This app is fairly easy to set up and use. The v2 update really improved the UI. It's not perfect, but of all the language translation options we've looked into, this has been the most efficient. If you're looking for a quick machine translation, this probably isn't the one, but if you want more nuanced control, this is a good place to start. Products, collections, themes, metafields, pages, articles, blogs, notifications, shop code, and even custom translations for special cases. Also, support has been helpful. We've had a few instances when something changed in our theme and the translations didn't work properly or the switcher didn't play nicely with the new theme code, and support was always able to fix it for us. My one major disappointment (for anyone planning to use third-party translation platforms, such as Crowdin): the Langify import/export seems to be using the actual string as the string identifier, so importing your translated strings only seems to work if the string has remained unchanged in Shopify. Since we're continually changing strings, this makes the import feature mostly useless for us, but considering the other features of this app, it seems worth the trade-off. (BTW, there are legitimate reasons for doing things this way; it's just an inconvenience for us.)

This app seems to be one of the best available in Shopify App store right now BUT it is far from perfect.
Main disadvantages of it:
- It not possible to add translations in bulk. You need to go to the product one-by-one. There is a possibility of import/export PO file but unfortunately, it is not helpful at all. Much better would the csv file similar to basic Shopify cvs export files where you can see info split in columns.
- It is impossible to detect the mistake in translations until you go to the product and see it. Here the csv would be a perfect variant when you could check translations on the product level and fix them in bulk. Would give much more visibility.
To be more specific. There was a bug in the app. If you change the order of product variant options in Shopify admin the translations of variant option values get messed up. You won‘t know it until you go to Langify to check something else and see this issue. Doesn‘t seem to be reliable.
- You can "translate" product pictures BUT it is so hacky way that if your product picture URL gets changed for any reason your setup will be lost and you won‘t even notice it before you go and check it on the product level.
- Formating of products and page translations sometimes messes up. You need to open the HTML code and fix it from there because fixes in the editor don‘t really work well.
E.g. If you paste the text from any other place the text background can get some color and you only can fix it via the code section. I really hope that Langify team reads comments and is willing to grow and improve. All stated above is a big pain for all merchants who have a big amount(20+) of products in the shop.

Great app and even better support.

Very good plugin and amazing support!

Best app, easy to use and support is great.

Great app, great customer service - so happy!

Very useful app and excellent support, 5 stars!

Great app and great and fast support from Johannes.