Home » Compare Comparing Wordfast Anywhere and OmegaT Which software is better? Here is a rundown of features and reviews to help you make your decision. | |  |  | | Name | Wordfast Anywhere | OmegaT | | Review breakdown | | | | Most helpful review | hey, not bad! I tried out six different CAT tools to find out which works best for me, and this one came in second after OmegaT. I might continue using Wordfast for scanned documents needing OCR, if I want to edit the source text while translating, and perhaps if I want to merge or split a translation memory.
pluses:
really quick and easy to start a new project
automatically puts the fuzzy match (including machine translation) into the target segment; if there are several matches, you can then toggle between them
makes a large public translation memory available to you — I didn’t try this but it sounds useful
built-in optical character recognizer
lets you upload files with a simple drag and drop
lets you edit the source segment, in a quick and easy manner
can import and export TMX files
the “placeables” feature is useful — I used it to insert an em-dash wherever I needed one
minuses:
no spell-checker
the glossary doesn’t automatically look up words from the segment
sometimes it freezes up somehow, so that I can’t open a segment by double-clicking on it
some kind of internal codes clutter the editor pane somewhat
doesn’t work with files in Open Document format
dialog boxes don’t close when I press the “Escape” key
whenever I paste any text from the source segment or the match pane into the target segment, it displays it with funny formatting until I leave the segment and come back to it
the “placeables” feature didn’t work the first time I tried the program
the shortcut for going to the first segment doesn’t work
sometimes it gets annoying to keep having to log in
it’s hard for me to get used to not having to press CTRL-S to keep saving my project
other:
It looks like you have to set the language for segmentation, because it doesn’t take this information automatically from the project. So if you switch source languages, you’ll probably have to go into setup and switch this before starting the next project.
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Read more reviews → | Simple, robust, efficient I use this program for most of my translation. It’s a free program [1]. Very simple to learn (the start screen shows a 5-minute start guide, and it takes really 5 minutes to start off). Has an excellent spell check feature, as well as grammar check via a plugin [2]. Extremely robust: haven’t experienced any crash or hang for years. You can have it as a portable version on a USB stick. User settings as well as projects can be easily transfered to another computer making system/computer updates or replacements seamless and painless. The functionality can be expanded with scripts [3]. The user groups [4] are ready to answer questions.
[1] OmegaT in Free Software Directory
[2] Implementation of LanguageTool
[3] Lots of scripts come with OmegaT distribution, but can also be downloaded from the relevant SourceForge page. Scripts (as well as other interesting issues) are discussed in Kos Ivantsov’s blog
[4] at groups.io and at sourceforge.net34 out of 34 found this review helpful.
Read more reviews → | | Product description | The world's most advanced web-based TM tool featuring complete privacy and confidentiality.
Wordfast Anywhere is designed to free translators from their home or office and allow them to work on projects from anywhere they have internet connection. Users can upload TM assets to a secure, password-protected workspace and access them from virtually any device that has a web browser. | OmegaT is a free and open source multiplatform computer Assisted Translation tool with fuzzy matching, translation memory, keyword search, glossaries, and translation leveraging into updated projects. Downloaded close to 900,000 times since its first release, OmegaT is developed by and for translators and offers everything you expect from a standard CAT tool.
Features
• Fuzzy matching
• Automatic propagation of translations
• Unlimited number of translation memories (TMX format)
• Unlimited number of glossaries (CSV and TBX format)
• Looking up terms in the project, in reference translation memories, in glossaries and in reference documents
• Projects with an unlimited number of folders and files, in all accepted formats
• Team projects with an unlimited number of translators
• Right to left and bidirectional writing management
• Tag protection and validation
• Morphological recognition
• Spell checking (Hunspell)
• Linguistic checking (LanguageTool)
• Dictionaries (mono and multilingual) in StarDict and Lingvo DSL formats
• Machine translation (Google Translate, Microsoft Translator, Apertium, Yandex, MyMemory)
• Public API for plugins: Additional file formats (Okapi), Local machine translation (Apertium)
• Running scripts written in Groovy and JavaScript
• Auto-completion from glossary entries, abbreviation list, history completion and history prediction
• Graphic aligner for all supported formats
• External search on the Internet
| | Price | Starting at $3.47 per month | Free of charge & total freedom of use (no license number, no registration) | | File formats | MS Word MS Excel MS Powerpoint RTF TXT INX (InDesign) MIF (FrameMaker) TTX PDF (including scanned PDFs) Files can be compressed Wordfast Anywhere can store up to 10 files at a time | More than 50 file formats, including Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint, LibreOffice, HTML, TTX and SDLXLIFF (Trados), TXML (Wordfast Pro), IDML (InDesign) and PDF (text and Iceni Infix export) | | License type | Software as a service (subscription) | Perpetual, open source | | Operating system | Windows XP, Windows 95, 98, ME, NT & 2000, Windows 10, Windows Vista, Mac OS X 10.6 and higher, Windows 7, Windows 8, Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) and higher, Mac OS X 10.4 and higher, Windows 10 (beta), Linux, Mac OS X 10.8 and higher, Windows 7 and higher , Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows 7, Mac OS 7, 8, 9, OSX 10.3.4 and higher , Windows 8.1 | Windows, Linux, MacOS | | System requirements | Any platform that supports internet browsing, including desktops, laptops, PDAs, tablets, and mobile devices. Browsers: Any javascript enabled browser | No specific requirements. Runs anywhere. | | Compatibility | Supports open standard file formats XLIFF, TMX, TBX & OLIF | Supports standard data exchange formats (TMX, TBX) and most standard source formats (see above) | | Support and upgrades offered/included | Free upgrades for duration of license/Subscription, Free technical support via support ticket center, Free community support | Free community support, Free upgrades to all future versions | | Support and tutorial links | No data | https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/OmegaT/info https://omegat.org/documentation#tutorials | | Free trial | No data | Perpetual license free of charge | | Languages supported | Wordfast Anywhere supports any language that is supported by your web browser. | No limitation whatsoever regarding useable language pairs. Possibility to use language codes that are not listed in the defaults. | Looking to buy one of these tools? Save when you buy through ProZ.com Translator Group Buying Translator Group Buying → | | | | X Sign in to your ProZ.com account... | | | | | | |
