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Open source alternatives to Lokalise

We track 4 open-source Lokalise alternatives, of which 3 currently score 70 or above on Repoly's GitHub health scale and 4 ship a Docker image. Weblate leads on health at 95/100 with 3199 commits in the last 90 days; across all 4 projects you are choosing between AGPL-3.0, Apache-2.0, BSD-3-Clause and 1 other licences.

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14k
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Showing 4 of 4 tools

All 4 Lokalise alternatives, ranked by health

  • Top pick · highest health

    Weblate

    95 GOOD

    Web-based translation tool with tight version control integration.

    ★ 6.1k · ⟳ today · weblate-2026.9.1 · GPL-3.0

    DockerPythonK8S
    Website ↗ Source ↗

  • Tolgee

    94 GOOD

    Developer & translator friendly web-based localization platform enabling users to translate directly in the app they develop.

    ★ 4.1k · ⟳ today · v3.221.2 · Apache-2.0

    DockerJava
    Website ↗ Source ↗

  • Traduora

    81 GOOD

    Translation management platform for teams.

    ★ 2.1k · ⟳ 13 days ago · v0.21.0 · AGPL-3.0

    DockerK8SNodejs
    Website ↗ Source ↗

  • Accent

    44 SLOWING

    Developer-oriented translation tool.

    ★ 1.5k · ⟳ 3 months ago · BSD-3-Clause

    DockerElixir
    Website ↗ Source ↗

Lokalise alternatives: common questions

What is the most maintained open source alternative to Lokalise?

Weblate scores highest at 95/100, with 3199 commits in the last 90 days, 6.1k GitHub stars and its latest release (weblate-2026.9.1) published 6 days ago. It is also the most active by raw commit count.

Which Lokalise alternatives use a permissive licence?

2 of 4 are permissively licensed (MIT, Apache, BSD or similar): Tolgee (Apache-2.0), Accent (BSD-3-Clause). 2 use copyleft licences such as GPL or AGPL, which require you to publish changes if you distribute a modified version.

Which Lokalise alternatives run in Docker?

4 of 4 publish a Docker image or Compose file: Weblate, Tolgee, Traduora, Accent. Docker support contributes 10 of the 100 available health points, because it is the clearest signal that self-hosting is a supported path rather than an afterthought.