Home » Compare Comparing Wordfast Pro 5 and OmegaT Which software is better? Here is a rundown of features and reviews to help you make your decision. | |  |  | | Name | Wordfast Pro 5 | OmegaT | | Review breakdown | | | | Most helpful review | Huge time saver Wordfast Pro 5 is a standalone CAT tool that is compatible in my experience with Word, Powerpoint, InDesign and most other office software programs.
I work on a mac system and it is perfectly compatible.
I also need to use Trados for one client, but consistently use Wordfast Pro 5 for all others because of how easy and practical it is.
Highly recommended! And a training session to get you started is also highly recommended, to get the most out of it. 5 out of 5 found this review helpful.
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 | Wordfast Pro is the latest version of the standalone, multi-platform TM tool designed to address the needs of translators, language service providers and multinational corporations.
| 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 | $460 | Free of charge & total freedom of use (no license number, no registration) | | File formats | Virtually any file format, including MS Office, Adobe InDesign, FrameMaker, PDF, HTML, XML, SDL Trados Xliff, MemoQ Xliff, and more | 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 | 3-year license | Perpetual, open source | | Operating system | Windows, MacOS, Linux | MacOS, Windows, Linux | | System requirements | Minimum: Intel or AMD CPU-based computer manufactured after 2013, 4 GB of System Memory, and Screen Resolution of 1366 x 768 | No specific requirements. Runs anywhere. | | Compatibility | *Install dependencies to run Wordfast on Linux OS typically ‘sudo apt install libconf2-4’ or ‘sudo apt-get install –f’ or ‘yum install libX*’" | 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 community support, Free upgrades to all future versions | | Support and tutorial links | Online support center | https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/OmegaT/info https://omegat.org/documentation#tutorials | | Free trial | Yes, 30 days of fully-functional trial available. Unlimited use of a demo version. | Perpetual license free of charge | | Languages supported | All languages. | 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... | | | | | | |
