Forthwith Blog

Practical notes on localization, product shipping, and translation workflows.

Guides and essays for teams keeping app strings translated as their products change.

June 23, 2026

AI Can Translate App Strings. That’s Not the Hard Part Anymore.

AI tools can translate app strings quickly, but translation is no longer the hardest part of localization. The real challenge is keeping placeholders, plural forms, markup, escaping, and resource-file syntax intact so translated strings do not break your app.