Translate TSV files online

What is the TSV format?

Tab-separated values work like CSV but avoid escaping problems with commas inside translations. One row per key, one column per language.

It is used by Excel, Google Sheets, scripts. SimpleLocalize reads and writes it natively, so you keep your existing project structure. Format value for the CLI and API: tsv. Read the format documentation.

How to translate TSV files

1. Create a free account and a project. The Community plan covers small apps with no credit card.
2. Import your .tsv file in the web editor, or push it from the terminal with the CLI.
3. Add target languages and run auto-translation. Use DeepL or Google Translate for speed, or OpenAI, Claude and Gemini with your own API key for context-aware translations.
4. Review in the editor with QA checks, glossary and screenshots, then download the TSV files or publish them to the translation hosting CDN.

Sync TSV files from CI

Add a simplelocalize.yml to the repository and run simplelocalize upload and simplelocalize download in your pipeline or GitHub Action:

# simplelocalize.yml
apiKey: YOUR_PROJECT_API_KEY
uploadFormat: tsv
uploadPath: ./translations.tsv
downloadFormat: tsv
downloadPath: ./translations.tsv

Convert TSV to other formats

The same project can export translations in more than 30 formats, and the free online converter works without an account:

• Convert TSV to JSON
• Convert TSV to Multi-language JSON
• Convert TSV to YAML
• Convert TSV to CSV
• Convert TSV to Excel
• Convert TSV to XLIFF 1.2
• Convert TSV to XLIFF 2.0
• Convert TSV to Android XML
• Convert TSV to iOS .strings
• Convert TSV to iOS .stringsdict

All conversions and free translation tools.