Translate XLIFF online

Author: Yuri Vodostoy — Technical translator and founder of Insight Translation · Updated 2026-06-23

HardTrans reads XLIFF from every major CAT tool and returns a translated file you can drop straight back into your project — inline tags intact, terminology consistent across the whole job.

Supported XLIFF flavors

• .xliff — standard XLIFF 1.2 / 2.0
• .sdlxliff — Trados Studio
• .mqxlz / .mqxliff — memoQ
• .mxliff — Phrase / Memsource
• Smartcat XLIFF export

What you get

HardTrans isn't an MT wrapper. It reads the whole file first, locks one term to one translation, treats your glossary as an invariant, and keeps the inline placeholders (bpt/ept/g/x) that break in naive tools. The result imports cleanly back into Trados, memoQ, Phrase or Smartcat for review.

The pre-translate workflow

Export XLIFF from your CAT tool, run it through HardTrans, import the result, then review. You skip the slow first pass and start from a consistent, glossary-aware draft instead of a blank one.