Home » Compare Comparing Transit NXT Professional+ and Smartcat Which software is better? Here is a rundown of features and reviews to help you make your decision. | |  |  | | Name | Transit NXT Professional+ | Smartcat | | Review breakdown | | | | Most helpful review | Once Top of the Bill I've used Transit for about 15 years. I was once enthusiastic about it, now I think that Transit is no longer up to today's standards.
This tool has always been very expensive to buy. The file format filters are of high quality, but additional filters are expensive too. Other CAT tools offer these additional filters (FrameMaker MIF etc.) for free!
The learning curve is quite steep. The documentation is great.
Transit only supports XLIFF in *one* direction (import), which is quite unacceptable. It missis out on smart editing features like automatic case adaption during Find and Replace, auto-assembling etc. It's not possible to select the whole content of one segment (without defining a macro first) and to perform operations on that selection (like case toggling).
The Access or MS SQL databases that are used to store terminology, respond slow when more than about 500,000 entries are stored. Importing terminology can take a long time.
Support is quite expensive and doesn't always provide a solution.
Transit's tag handling is a real disaster. There are so many tags, many of them grouped, which makes it even harder to insert/move them. It's a dull task to insert the necessary tags. You have to be a keyboard magician, using all kinds of keyboard shortcuts.
By default, you have to overwrite the target text, instead of starting to type in an empty segment. You really have to like that (or not).
Personally, I let my Transit rest in a Virtual Machine and use another tool to process all Transit project files. One that lets me focus on the text at hand, instead on tags.13 out of 13 found this review helpful.
Read more reviews → | Great tool. Very comfort and helpful I used this tool above year and be cool with it. Program is constant in progress and getting better. I'm using it for freelance translation and can tell that this tool easy in use and have a lot of free helpful option. Machine translation is paid, but not expansive. Quality of this translation is not excellent, but, hey, where did you see great machine translation? It's just a help instrument, and it's more better Google translate(for example). I really recommend SmartCat. Just try!10 out of 13 found this review helpful.
Read more reviews → | | Product description | Transit NXT is the next generation of STAR's translation memory system. This new version will offer an optimized solution to make your translation teams even more productive.
Translation Memory in Context: What Makes Transit Different?
The sentence is the basic unit of language. However it is not necessarily the basic unit of meaning. Translators read sentences in the source text, but are only able to do a good job of translating them if they are able to derive and understand their meaning from the context. This is a principle which was taken into account in the first version of Transit, over 20 years ago. In contrast to other translation memory systems, Transit does away with a database which is exclusively sentence based; instead the full breadth of the context contained in a document remains available in the Transit reference material. | Smartcat is an all-in-one platform connecting businesses and translators into a continuous translation delivery loop by combining a collaborative workflow solution, a marketplace, and a network of translation professionals.
Figures as of mid-2019:
* 10,000+ LSPs and end customers
* 250,000+ freelancers
* 70+ partners in 40+ countries
Experience the next generation of translation technologies and boost your translation business efficiency from day one — join for free at smartcat.ai | | Price | Options include 3, 6, 12 month and perpetual options starting at €240 | free | | File formats | No data | DOCX, DOC, TXT, RTF, ODT, HTML, HTM, XLSX, XLS, PPT, PPTX, POTX, PPS, PPSX, ODP, TTX, RESX, ZIP, CSV, IDML, SDLXLIFF, XLF, XLIFF, PDF, BMP, DCX, PCX, PNG, JP2, JPC, JPG, JPEG, JFIF, TIF, TIFF, GIF, DJ | | License type | Perpetual | Perpetual | | Operating system | Windows | Other, Android, Apple iOS, Windows, MacOS, Linux | | System requirements | 200 MHz Processor, 1 GB RAM, 250 MB Hard drive & 1280 x 1024 SVGA Graphics card | No need | | Compatibility | Transit NXT product brief | No data | | Support and upgrades offered/included | Free upgrades for duration of license/Subscription | No data | | Support and tutorial links | No data | http://www.smartcat.ai/webinar | | Free trial | No data | http://www.smartcat.ai/ | | Languages supported | Transit NXT product brief | English, Russian, Chinese, Turkish | Looking to buy one of these tools? Save when you buy through ProZ.com Translator Group Buying Translator Group Buying → | | | | X Sign in to your ProZ.com account... | | | | | | |
