Best / Most-Used Web-Based CAT-Tool: Your Opinion, Availability of Research
Thread poster: Ella Luz
Ella Luz
Ella Luz
Germany
Jan 7, 2017

Hi Everyone!

1. What is your favorite online CAT tool and why do you prefer it to other web-based tools? Which has the most / most useful features?

Are you aware of any recent and fairly comprehensive study or survey conducted comparing online CAT tools to each other?

2. What is the most-used web-based tool?

Is there any market analysis or statistical data revealing the numbers of users of individual online CAT tools (e. g. in %, i. e. in rela
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Hi Everyone!

1. What is your favorite online CAT tool and why do you prefer it to other web-based tools? Which has the most / most useful features?

Are you aware of any recent and fairly comprehensive study or survey conducted comparing online CAT tools to each other?

2. What is the most-used web-based tool?

Is there any market analysis or statistical data revealing the numbers of users of individual online CAT tools (e. g. in %, i. e. in relation to each other) or information on the positioning of their respective providers on the online CAT tool market?

Thank you a lot in advance!

Best Regards

Helen
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Discussed already many times Jan 7, 2017

All these questions have been discussed many times in this forum (and a few other forums): just make a search and you will find the answers.

 
Michael Beijer
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my little list of online CAT tools Jan 7, 2017

Helen_Of_Troy wrote:

Hi Everyone!

1. What is your favorite online CAT tool and why do you prefer it to other web-based tools? Which has the most / most useful features?

Are you aware of any recent and fairly comprehensive study or survey conducted comparing online CAT tools to each other?

2. What is the most-used web-based tool?

Is there any market analysis or statistical data revealing the numbers of users of individual online CAT tools (e. g. in %, i. e. in relation to each other) or information on the positioning of their respective providers on the online CAT tool market?

Thank you a lot in advance!

Best Regards

Helen


– amigoCAT: http://www.amigocat.com
– Google Translator Toolkit: https://translate.google.com/toolkit/
– Lilt (w/ adaptive MT)
– Lionbridge Translation Workspace: https://geoworkz.com/Products/AboutTranslationWorkspace.aspx
– MateCat: https://www.matecat.com + https://www.matecat.com/features/
– Memsource Cloud: https://www.memsource.com/en/features
– SmartCAT (by ABBYY): http://www.smartcat.pro
– TM-Town: https://www.tm-town.com (not a CAT tool, but has interesting online features)
– transdraft: https://www.transdraft.com (from the guy who made TM-Town)
– Transifex: https://www.transifex.com/signup/
– wordbee: http://www.wordbee.com
– Wordfast Anywhere: https://www.freetm.com + https://www.wordfast.net/wiki/Wordfast_Anywhere
– XTM Cloud: http://xtm-intl.com

I don't use any of them (because they all suck). I use Déjà Vu X3.


 
Samuel Murray
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@Helen Jan 7, 2017

Helen_Of_Troy wrote:
Are you aware of any recent and fairly comprehensive study or survey conducted comparing online CAT tools to each other?


Nope.

There's this list, though:
http://www.proz.com/forum/cat_tools_technical_help/306817-making_a_comprehensive_list_of_all_online_cat_tools_currently_available_pls_help.html

Is there any market analysis or statistical data revealing the numbers of users of individual online CAT tools ...?


Not as far as I'm aware, no.


 
Siegfried Armbruster
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Cheap labour? Jan 8, 2017

Helen_Of_Troy wrote:

1. What is your favorite online CAT tool and why do you prefer it to other web-based tools? Which has the most / most useful features?

Are you aware of any recent and fairly comprehensive study or survey conducted comparing online CAT tools to each other?

2. What is the most-used web-based tool?

Is there any market analysis or statistical data revealing the numbers of users of individual online CAT tools (e. g. in %, i. e. in relation to each other) or information on the positioning of their respective providers on the online CAT tool market?


And why should we do the market research for a 3rd party who reveals no info about who she/he is, why he/she wants this info or what his/her own results are so far?

I can offer you a detailed report on your questions and I would be happy to discuss what you want to know, so that I can send you a quote.

[Edited at 2017-01-08 07:48 GMT]


 
Shouguang Cao
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needs update Nov 2, 2018

This list may need update:

1) amigoCAT is dead.
2) And one more that I worked on. crowdin: https://crowdin.com/

Dallas

Michael Beijer wrote:
– amigoCAT: http://www.amigocat.com
– Google Translator Toolkit: https://translate.google.com/toolkit/
– Lilt (w/ adaptive MT)
– Lionbridge Translation Workspace: https://geoworkz.com/Products/AboutTranslationWorkspace.aspx
– MateCat: https://www.matecat.com + https://www.matecat.com/features/
– Memsource Cloud: https://www.memsource.com/en/features
– SmartCAT (by ABBYY): http://www.smartcat.pro
– TM-Town: https://www.tm-town.com (not a CAT tool, but has interesting online features)
– transdraft: https://www.transdraft.com (from the guy who made TM-Town)
– Transifex: https://www.transifex.com/signup/
– wordbee: http://www.wordbee.com
– Wordfast Anywhere: https://www.freetm.com + https://www.wordfast.net/wiki/Wordfast_Anywhere
– XTM Cloud: http://xtm-intl.com

I don't use any of them (because they all suck). I use Déjà Vu X3.


Yves Champollion
 
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brand awareness -vs- real demand Nov 2, 2018

While I still think that CATs are overhyped and mostly can be useful only when segmented by paragraphs or after careful post-edit, I find online (cloud-/browser-/web-based) CATs subpar offline (standalone) counterparts, not to mention NDA and possible connection and security issues. I did try a few free and paid online CATs, and they are similar to offline ones, but very slow and less secure. Luckily, most users know too many if's'n'but's and prefer having familiar tools at hand, not a "SaaS" (s... See more
While I still think that CATs are overhyped and mostly can be useful only when segmented by paragraphs or after careful post-edit, I find online (cloud-/browser-/web-based) CATs subpar offline (standalone) counterparts, not to mention NDA and possible connection and security issues. I did try a few free and paid online CATs, and they are similar to offline ones, but very slow and less secure. Luckily, most users know too many if's'n'but's and prefer having familiar tools at hand, not a "SaaS" (software as a service) or like.

A customer satisfaction study?--For a translator, an agency or an end client? And who keeps counting? No good, except vendors and related people. Meanwhile all those statistics looks more like ads, trend-making, frugging, or sugging--selling under the guise of market research. Shortly, you always pay for everything--whether you see and acknowledge it or not.

Why, for sure vendors are very sensitive and creative when it comes to promoting their stuff and the price policy, that's why a fried of mine once made me laugh asking whether an agency would charge less for using a free CAT)
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