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Aimed at translators
| Name | Online | Desktop | OS | Licence | Price | Multi-currency | Import data | Export data | Mobile app | Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BaccS | ✔ | ✔ | Windows | Commercial | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | see: ‘SDL Trados Business Manager’ below | |
| breeze | ||||||||||
| Flantie | ✔ | Commercial | ? | No | Can't figure out how to do multi-currency. | |||||
| Fred (by Lexigo) | ✔ | ‘Lexigo is a leading translation technology and services provider for business, enterprise and government. Fred has been built on the foundation of Lexigo’s own award-winning technology, all the advantages of Lexigo’s technology have been built in to Fred to ensure freelancers can get the same benefits technology has provided Lexigo.’ | ||||||||
| Gespoint | x | ✔ | Windows | Commercial | ||||||
| LSP.expert | ✔ | x | Commercial | Yes | Yes | No | ||||
| LTC Worx (🕱) | ✔ | Commercial | looks like it died around 2014 | |||||||
| MiniTPMS | ✔ | Commercial | ‘translation and localization project management system’ designed for owners, project managers, financial managers in translation and localization companies, with around 2-30 in-house colleagues and, who work for both bigger translation agencies as well as end clients (summarised from their website) | |||||||
| OTM | ✔ | Commercial | €240/month | lsp.net | ||||||
| OTM SOLISTA | ✔ | Commercial | (development seems to have stalled back in 2014) | |||||||
| Promikbook / Acconomy | ✔ | ? | Commercial | (looks interesting, but it's all in Swedish) | ||||||
| Protemos | ✔ | x | Commercial | Yes | No | (online, Freelance and Enterprise versions. Freelance version is free, Enterprise has 3 months trial) | ||||
| Quahill | x | ✔ | Windows | Commercial (w/ free version) | My notes: Actually looks pretty good, but the fonts are just too small for me to see comfortably. A pity. Versions: (1) QuaHill Enterprise (for LSPs) (2) QuaHill Premium (for freelancers with partners) (3) QuaHill Basic (for freelancers)(free!). | |||||
| RuLingo | ✔ | Free from freelancers | No | |||||||
| SDL Trados Business Manager (formerly ‘BaccS’) | ✔ | x | Windows | Commercial | Yes | Yes | Started off as ‘BaccS’ (as a challenger to TO3000), then sponsored by Proz.com, and finally bought by SDL. Currently pivoting into a tool mainly geared towards agencies. Currently my go-to invoicing/accounting app. | |||
| simpli | ‘With a marketing-first approach, Simpli helps freelance translators acquire new customers and in addition to managing projects, quotes, invoices. Simpli beautiful.’ (project looks dead to me) | |||||||||
| TO3000 (Translation Office 3000) | x | Windows | Commercial | Yes | The one most people will have heard of as it used to be the only one.It was never great, but IYAM, it took a turn for the worse when they upgraded it to the ‘3D’ version. I still own a licence, but don't use it. | |||||
| TOM Agency Edition | x | Windows | Commercial | Developed by Joachim Voigt. Tools is currently only being marketed in German, but English version exists. | ||||||
| TOM Solito for Freelance Translators | x | Windows | Commercial | (see above) | ||||||
| Translation Projex | ✔ | Commercial | $99/month | ‘TranslationProjex is a web-based project management system that you can access anywhere there is an Internet connection. The system is optimised for mobile devices and looks great whether you use a mobile phone or a desktop PC.’ for agencies (starts at $99/month) | ||||||
| Name | Platform | Multi-currency | Import data | Export data | Mobile app | Info |
General
| Name | Platform | Licence | Multi-currency | Import data | Export data | Mobile app | Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ]project-open[ (‘]po[’) | Open source | Yuk. | |||||
| ]project translation[ | Open source | (open-source TMS, but requires some costly plugins, e.g. database for freelancers, to become fully usable in an agency) | |||||
| Akaunting | Web | Commercial | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | x | (but works relatively well in browser on mobile) |
| Asana | |||||||
| Avaza | Potentially interesting, but way too much crap I don't want or need. Time tracking, sales funnels, etc. | ||||||
| Bitrix24 | Web | Commercial | |||||
| Bookipi | Web | Commercial | |||||
| Bokio | Web | Commercial | |||||
| Bonsai | |||||||
| Brightbook | Web | Commercial | ✔ | ✔ | No custom invoice sequences per client possible. | ||
| ClearBooks | Web | Commercial | Serious rounding issue: System automatically rounds up. For example, €0.095/word gets changed to €0.10/word, which obviously makes the system unusable in the context of CAT tools. | ||||
| CloudBooks | Web | Commercial | ✔ | x | |||
| crater | Web, Mobile | Open source | Install on your own server. | ||||
| Debitoor | Web | Commercial | ✔ | x | ✔ | ✔ | Doesn't quite offer all I need, but I like its simplicity and decent Android app. Also, it's one of the very few apps online that specifically uses translator-related keywords on its web pages. |
| dotProject | Open source | dotProject is an open source project management system written in PHP. https://github.com/dotproject/dotProject | |||||
| Due | |||||||
| Express Invoice (from NCH Software) | This company offers a huge range of strange, free crap. Avoid at all costs. | ||||||
| FreeAgent | Web | Commercial | |||||
| FreshBooks | Web | Commercial | Kind of weird looking UI | ||||
| Harpoon | x | ||||||
| Hiveage | Commercial | ✔ | UI (on mobile and web) isn't that great. | ||||
| HoneyBook | Web | Commercial | |||||
| Holded | Web | Commercial | ✔ | Interesting but too expensive. | |||
| KashFlow | Web | Commercial | initial impression is it looks cheap | ||||
| Kashoo | Web | Commercial | |||||
| Invoice2Go | Web | Commercial | x | ‘It is possible to get paid in more than one currency, but Invoice2go is not yet optimized for this scenario and the data may not be processed correctly. If you need to get paid in multiple currencies (e.g. British Pounds and Euros), we recommend creating multiple Invoice2go accounts to keep your data consistent.’ | |||
| InvoiceBerry | Web | Commercial | |||||
| Invoicera | Web | Commercial | ✔ | Pretty comprehensive but seems kind of slow. | |||
| InvoiceLion | Self-hosted €0 Forever; Hosted €10 Per Year | ||||||
| Invoice Expert (Lite) | Windows | Yikes | |||||
| Invoicely | Web | Commercial | |||||
| Invoice Meister | Web | Commercial | |||||
| InvoiceNinja | Web | Commercial | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Can be installed Softaculous[1] (e.g. in the Namecheap cPanel). See also: + https://www.invoiceninja.org | |
| Invoice Office | |||||||
| InvoicePlane | Web | Open source | InvoicePlane is a self-hosted open source application for managing your quotes, invoices, clients and payments. | ||||
| Invoice Simple | Web | Commercial | ✔ | ✔ | 3 free invoices & estimates, upgrade @ £5.99/month for unlimited | ||
| Mr Biller | Web | Commercial | ✔ | ||||
| OpenSourceBilling | |||||||
| QuickBooks Online | Web | Commercial | |||||
| Quickfile | Web | Commercial | (w/ free plan) | ||||
| Nomisma | Web | Commercial | |||||
| Plutio | Commercial | ‘Everything you need to run your business’. Too much stuff I don't really need. | |||||
| Rounded | Web | Commercial | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | I gave this a fair try a few years ago. Pretty decent offering by an Australian company who now also has a version geared to wards the UK. |
| Scoro | Commercial | ||||||
| SolidInvoice | |||||||
| vcita | Web | Commercial | ✔ | ✔ | Don't need the marketing stuff. | ||
| Xero | Web | Commercial | |||||
| Zervant | Web | Commercial | ✔ | ||||
| Zoho Invoice | Web | Commercial | ✔ | ✔ | |||
| Name | Platform | Multi-currency | Import data | Export data | Mobile app | Info |
External links with relevant discussions
- https://secure.clearbooks.co.uk/community/questions/18872/likes
- https://breezefortranslators.com/translation-project-management-tools-for-freelancers
- http://www.proz.com/forum/software_applications/312953-looking_for_excel_spreadsheet_for_invoicing_payments_etc_ie_diy_to3000_clone-page2.html
- https://www.appvizer.co.uk/search?selected=269055
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