Languages and translations
Every Yallapp app is in English. Yallapp also translates it into Arabic and Turkish: the app's own buttons and messages, and the tab names, page titles and sample texts Yallapp writes for you. You can add any other language the app can show, such as French, German, Persian or Urdu, and translate it yourself. People pick their language in the app's settings, where each language shows its own name.
Add languages
Open Languages in your dashboard (or Pages & look › Languages). Choose a language in Add a language and select Add. Then:
- Make default sets the language your app opens in when the phone's language isn't one of yours. Your page texts move with it, so nothing is lost.
- The arrows set the order of the language picker in the app.
- The bin removes a language. Its translations are kept, in case you add it again.
Changes are saved to your draft. Select Publish to send them to your app. How many languages your app can have depends on your plan, whoever translates them.
Translate your texts
The Translations part of the Languages page lists every text your app shows in the language you choose, with how much is translated:
- Your pages and tabs: tab names, page titles, and the texts of your blocks, slides, questions and people.
- The app's own texts: its buttons, screens and messages.
Write each text in the box under it. Show: Missing lists what still needs a translation, and Search finds a word, a text or a key. Copy English fills in the English, for brand names you keep as they are. Select Save translations, then Publish. Preview in opens your app in that language before you publish (apps without a website; others show what's published).
A text you haven't translated shows Yallapp's translation in Arabic and Turkish, else the default language for your pages and English for the app's own texts. Your translation always wins, also over Yallapp's: in Arabic and Turkish, select Change Yallapp's to start from its text. If you change a text Yallapp wrote, such as a tab name, it's yours to translate.
Placeholders and numbers
Some app texts have placeholders in braces, such as {name} or {count}: the app puts a name or a number there. Select a placeholder under the box to insert it, and keep only the ones shown. Texts with numbers can have a form per number, written as {count, plural, =1{1 lesson} other{{count} lessons}}; use the forms your language needs (one, few, many, other). A text with a placeholder the app doesn't have can't be saved, so a mistake never reaches your app.
Work in a spreadsheet
Export a language as CSV, JSON or XLIFF, fill in the translation column (or send the file to a translator), and Import a file back. Rows are matched by their ID; check the imported texts, then save.
Right to left
Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, Urdu, Pashto and Uyghur are written right to left: when someone picks one, the whole app turns around, menus, lists, icons and text.
Texts that come from your website or platform, such as course or product names, show as they are written there. Property listings show as your office wrote them.