This post is from 2012, about 14 years ago. Some of it may be out of date.

▸ Localize Your Apps With Ease Using Greenwich

1 min readXcode & Tools, Open Source

Jake Marsh

Oh man, I have waited a long time for a tool like this to come around. I’ve even attempted to build one myself a couple times.

The process of localizing Cocoa applications has always been a bit of a chore. Various tools are available to facilitate localization of applications, but they all require a fair amount of work. Even when there is demand for localization, many applications are only available in one language. Greenwich is here to change that.

Greenwich is a new, open-source framework that greatly speeds up the process of localizing and translating an iOS or Mac app. At anytime a developer or translator (yep, Greenwich has been built with translators in mind) can make a change to a word or two, relaunch your app and see the changes reflected immediately.

Greenwich's Translator Mac app editing German strings for an app's localization files

Setup and usage for iOS and
Mac are very well documented on Greenwich’s awesome setup page.

Do yourself a favor and check this out now, if you’ve ever localized a Mac or iOS app you know what a pain the process can be. Looks like we finally have a great solution.

Link: fadingred.github.com/greenwich