Home » Compare

Comparing CafeTran Espresso and LogiTerm Pro

Which software is better? Here is a rundown of features and reviews to help you make your decision.

Name	CafeTran Espresso	LogiTerm Pro
Review breakdown	(20 reviews)	(2 reviews)
Most helpful review	Great new features with each new build By Selcuk Akyuz Just in a few words, it is different. CafeTran's developer is not only a programmer but he is a translator as well, that is why he adds all those unique features helping translators. One pays EUR 225 only to upgrade from SDL Trados Studio 2009 Freelance to 2011 version but you can buy CafeTran at only EUR 80. Amazing! Just read the features at http://cafetran.wikidot.com/ 33 out of 37 found this review helpful. Read more reviews →	Very powerful, flexible and user-friendly By John Detre Logiterm is not a translation memory software in the strict sense insofar as it doesn’t memorize segments as you translate them. However, it is a very powerful and intuitive tool for leveraging past translations, documentation, glossaries, etc. PROS - The most accurate alignment engine out there. - The most flexible and effective tool for accessing past translations that I have tried. You can add the most relevant and/or reliable previous translations and glossaries to the TM you use to pretranslate a doc but still access your entire corpus of past translations, related documents and glossaries in another window when editing and confirming the translation. You can search your entire corpus or specific parts of it, search full text or translation pairs, use search parameters, etc. - Very easy to learn and easy to work with, especially when translating in Word. For Word, Logiterm installs a toolbar instead of forcing you to work in another environment. Past translation pairs with highlighted differences appear in a pop-up window for editing and are then entered directly in the Word document. I find it a much more natural and flexible way to translate than working in a TEnT. You can use the Logiterm pop-up window where you want, switch back to translating directly in Word where it makes more sense, continue accessing Logiterm’s search functions whenever you want. There are no formatting glitches caused by exporting the finished translation from the TEnT back to Word (except that inline codes must be added manually in Word). At the same time, Logiterm doesn’t have the severe limitations of the Wordfast Word add-on. - The almost-free Logiterm toolbar makes it easy to share output with collaborators who don’t own Logiterm and lets them use and edit pretranslation results as effectively as owners of the software. - Tech support is fast and helpful. CONS - Not nearly as good as MemoQ or other conventional TMs for translating a document with many internal repetitions but no similarity to past translations. Logiterm will identify 100% matches within a document and propagate your translation throughout the file but it can’t find internal fuzzy matches within a document. - No QA function. If you want QA, you have to use a separate error-checking software. I use Verifika and in a way I don’t mind, since I find Verifika is much better than the built-in error checkers in other CAT tools anyway, but it is definitely a more cumbersome process. - Terminotix is very slow to fix bugs. For example, Logiterm doesn’t process end-of-segment punctuation, just leaves it as is. So if a segment ends with a space followed by a colon or semi-colon, there is no way to remove the space in Logiterm. If a segment ends with a bracket, Logiterm leaves it there, even if you have moved the parentheses to inside the segment. You have to edit out unwanted end-of-segment punctuation in Word. This is not a huge problem since you have the Word screen in front of you as you translate in the Logiterm pop-up window, but Terminotix has known about this bug for years and definitely should have addressed it by now. BOTTOM LINE I have been using Logiterm as my main CAT tool for about 10 years and, despite some irritants, I still find it to be the smoothest CAT software to work with. After trying others periodically, I keep coming back to Logiterm because of its flexibility and ease of use. UPDATE Since I wrote this review, a new Logiterm release has fixed the bugs and added the ability to find and process fuzzy matches within a document. So, at this point, the only situation in which I would still prefer memoQ to Logiterm is a large project with many internal repetitions that has to be divided among several translators. Logiterm has nothing comparable to the capabilities of memoQ's server edition. But for any one-man job, I think Logiterm is the cleaner solution now. 7 out of 7 found this review helpful. Read more reviews →
Product description	Welcome to CafeTran Espresso -- the feature-rich CAT tool that is fun to use! Whether you are an experienced user of the big-name CAT tools, or a translator getting ready to use a CAT tool for the first time, please consider CafeTran Espresso. This powerful tool was built lovingly, from the ground up, by a person who is both a developer and a translator himself. It is packed with creative and useful features that not only help you to work faster, but also make your job more fun. CafeTran also boasts a passionate user community, and an attentive developer, that help each other with support at all hours of the day. With this tool, you are never alone! Free to download and run, up to 1000 translation units, CafeTran Espresso works on Windows, Macs and Linux machines. Why not download and give it a try right now? Main features Cross-platform translation environment (Mac-Windows-Linux) Stand-alone (no Ms Office required) Based on open standards XLIFF and TMX Very fast using RAM for translation memories Uses as many translation memories as you like Handles lots of file formats Integrates Internet resources and machine translation (Google and Bing) Spell checker and thesaurus (requires free OpenOffice/LibreOffice) Autowriter completes and suggests words on-the-fly based on activated memories Handles formatting tags easily Alternative clipboard workflow to translate unsupported formats Creates translation memories from existing translations (Documents alignment) Segments and terms mangement in a preferred SQL database Network memory server for remote or team work Software localization - Java, Mac and .NET	A COMPLETE TRANSLATION SOFTWARE COMBINING A FULL-TEXT SEARCH ENGINE WITH TRANSLATION, TERMINOLOGY, DATA CONVERSION AND ALIGNMENT TOOLS
Price	€200	$795
File formats	Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, LibreOffice, InDesign, Framemaker, AutoCAD, XLIFF, TMX, subtitles, images and more.	No data
License type	Perpetual	Perpetual
Operating system	Linux, Windows, MacOS	Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7
System requirements	Minimum 2 GB RAM or 4 GB RAM for larger project and translation memories	1-GHz processor; 512 MB of RAM; 200 MB of available disk space
Compatibility	Support for multilanguage translation memories (TMX format)	No data
Support and upgrades offered/included	Free upgrades for duration of license/Subscription, Installation support, Free technical support via support ticket center, Free community support	1 year of free support and upgrades
Support and tutorial links	CafeTran Support and Knowledge Base	No data
Free trial	Up to 1000 memory units and 500 glossary entries	No data
Languages supported	All major languages	No data

Looking to buy one of these tools?

Save when you buy through ProZ.com Translator Group Buying

Translator Group Buying →