Gridly
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What is Gridly?
Gridly is an all-in-one localization platform that combines content management (CMS), translation management (TMS), and computer-assisted translation (CAT) capabilities into a single system. It serves as a collaborative headless CMS specifically designed for multilingual projects, enabling teams to manage, localize, and ship content while shortening publishing cycles and enhancing quality. The platform provides a spreadsheet-like interface called Grids for managing content with the ease of a spreadsheet, allowing users to filter contents, make bulk updates, and automate with formulas.
Key features include built-in translation memory and glossaries, AI-powered translation suggestions, machine translation pre-translation for multiple languages, generative AI for creating/proofreading content, OCR for extracting text from screenshots, text-to-speech for video production, and sentiment analysis for user feedback. Gridly offers real-time collaboration tools including statuses, templates, tickets, and notifications. The platform provides robust API access, connectors for Google Sheets/MySQL/PostgreSQL, CDN delivery via Cloudfront, webhooks, and serverless functions. It includes enterprise security features like granular access control, audit trails, version control with branches, and role-based permissions.
Gridly is ideal for software companies, game developers (with special Unreal Engine plugin support), FinTech, SaaS, and workforce management companies producing multilingual content. It serves small teams with lower content volumes through to large enterprises localizing at scale. The platform is particularly valuable for teams managing Games-as-a-Service projects, complex narrative content, and frequent content updates across multiple languages. Translators benefit from an intuitive CAT environment designed for efficient translation work with contextual information and concordance search.
Gridly pricing
Pricing model: Freemium
Gridly offers a 14-day free trial of the Team tier with access to the full feature set. Three tiers are available: Basic, Team, and Enterprise. Basic tier starts at €99/month for CMS (3 seats included, additional seats €29/month), €50/month for TMS (1 seat included, additional seats €29/month), and €140/month for CAT (10 seats included, additional seats €14/month). Team tier starts at €249/month for CMS (5 seats included), €125/month for TMS (2 seats included), and €280/month for CAT (20 seats included). Enterprise tier has custom pricing starting from 10 seats for CMS, 5 seats for TMS, and 50 seats for CAT. Basic includes 2GB storage and 3 months revision history. Team includes 100GB storage and 12 months revision history. Enterprise offers custom storage and 24 months revision history. Features like version control, connectors, templates, and API access vary by tier.
Gridly pros
- Spreadsheet-like interface familiar to non-technical users
- Single source of truth for all content types
- Built-in translation memory and glossaries
- AI-powered translation suggestions with linguistic context
- Generative AI for create/translate/proofread/summarize content
- Unreal Engine plugin for game localization
- Real-time collaboration across teams
- Bulk updates and filtering capabilities in Grids
- Machine translation pre-translation for multiple languages
- OCR text extraction from screenshots
- Text-to-speech AI-generated voiceover files
- Full API access with multiple integration levels
- Connectors for Google Sheets, MySQL, PostgreSQL
- Content Delivery Network via Cloudfront
- Granular access control and audit trail
- Version control with branches for parallel content versions
- Translation Memory guarantees quality and cost savings
- Intuitive CAT editor designed for translator efficiency
- Ticket center for tracking issue statuses
- _templates_ for quick project setup
Gridly cons
- No free tier - only 14-day free trial of Team tier
- Additional seats cost €29/month for CMS and TMS
- CAT module requires minimum 10 seats at €140/month
- Basic tier lacks version control and templates
- Basic tier has only 2GB file storage
- No access control on Basic tier
- Connectors only available on Team tier and above
- Audit log only available on Enterprise tier
- Single sign-on (SSO) only on Enterprise tier
- IP whitelisting only on Enterprise tier
Frequently asked questions about Gridly
What is Gridly?
Gridly is an all-in-one localization platform where software companies can manage content and translation efficiently in one place. It combines CMS, TMS, and CAT capabilities into a single platform, serving as a collaborative headless CMS tailor-made for multilingual projects. Gridly provides a spreadsheet-based content platform with a powerful API, browser-based spreadsheet UI with 1 billion cells, and built-in functions to handle localization and frequent updates.
Does Gridly offer a free plan?
Gridly offers a 14-day free trial of the Team tier with access to the full feature set of all modules. After the trial, you must choose a paid plan. The Basic tier starts at €99/month for CMS, €50/month for TMS, and €140/month for CAT. There is no permanently free tier, but the trial lets you test all features before committing.
What integrations does Gridly support?
Gridly supports fully-fledged API access with three levels (Basic, Advanced, Full), connectors for Google Sheets/MySQL/PostgreSQL, a free Unreal Engine plugin for game localization, webhooks for fetching content on updates, serverless functions for running code on data, and a Content Delivery Network via Cloudfront. Add-ons are available to connect CAT tools, game engines, communication apps, and more.
How does Gridly help with translation costs?
Gridly helps cut translation costs without sacrificing quality by leveraging translation memories and term bases to reuse existing translations. You can apply AI with linguistic context to translate the rest, use machine translation to pre-translate multiple languages at once, and benefit from automated QA to ensure quality. This reuse of existing translations significantly reduces the amount of new translation needed.
What is the Grids feature?
Grids is Gridly's spreadsheet-like interface for managing content. You can filter anything, make bulk updates, or automate with formulas. Grids allow you to manage content with the ease of a spreadsheet while maintaining structure for localization. You can add informative metadata columns like maximum string length, descriptions, or context for word usage that aren't translations but help translators work more accurately.
Is Gridly suitable for game localization?
Yes, Gridly is specifically designed for multilingual game projects and is a collaborative headless CMS tailor-made for gaming. It has a free Unreal Engine plugin from the Unreal Engine marketplace that connects Unreal Engine to Gridly, supporting both inline source strings and StringTables. Major gaming companies like Warner Bros. Games, Rovio, and Scopely use Gridly. It also worked on Black Myth: Wukong localization, significantly increasing translation efficiency and quality.
What AI features does Gridly offer?
Gridly offers multiple AI features: Generative AI using OpenAI's LLMs to create, translate, proofread, or summarize content with run prompts; Machine Translation to pre-translate multiple languages at once with leading MT solutions; AI suggestions in the CAT editor; OCR to detect and extract text from screenshots; Text-to-speech for AI-generated voiceover files to speed up video production; and Sentiment Analysis to uncover emotions in user feedback at scale.
How does version control work in Gridly?
Gridly offers version control through branches, which create parallel versions of your content for development, testing, or localization. Branches are available on Team and Enterprise tiers. You can also track events in any cell with audit trail (Enterprise tier), review history, and roll back if needed. Revision history is kept for 3 months on Basic, 12 months on Team, and 24 months on Enterprise.
What security features does Gridly provide?
Gridly provides fortified infrastructure with multiple security layers, granular access control (Enterprise tier), audit trail for tracking events in any cell, roles and permissions to manage user rights, user groups to manage permissions in batches, and robust backup and recovery. Enterprise tier additionally offers IP whitelisting and Single Sign-On (SSO). Group access control is available on Team tier.
Can I import and export JSON files in Gridly?
Yes, Gridly supports importing and exporting JSON files. You can import JSON files through the Project page by clicking Add Grid and selecting Import data. JSON import mode offers two options: JSON to records (properties mapped into Gridly records) or JSON to columns (properties mapped into Gridly columns). You can select different keys to import and specify the key to use as Object ID. For export, you can select Localization export and choose Export to JSON, selecting specific languages or exporting all languages.