Wordfast

Wordfast offers a family of translation tools rather than one application, and the range is what makes it distinctive: Wordfast Classic, Wordfast Pro, Wordfast Anywhere, Wordfast Server and PlusTools.

Wordfast Classic works inside Microsoft Word itself rather than as a separate environment, which remains genuinely valuable to translators who have spent decades in Word and do not want to learn a new interface to gain translation memory. Wordfast Pro is the standalone platform independent application handling a wider range of file formats and larger projects.

Wordfast Anywhere is the browser based tool and is free to use, which matters because it removes the entry barrier for translators evaluating whether translation memory helps their work at all. A translator can build a memory, work on real jobs and decide about paid tools afterwards, from any machine with a browser.

Wordfast Server supports team deployment with shared translation memories, so an agency's translators draw on the same accumulated assets rather than fragmenting them across individual installations, and PlusTools adds supplementary utilities. The company describes itself as the world's leading provider of platform independent translation memory software, with documentation, a wiki, live webinars, videos, training and a community. Pricing is published by product on the Wordfast site.