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Trados Studio 2021

2.8 out of 5
Out of 13 user reviews.


The complete translation environment for professional translators

Trados Studio is a complete translation environment for editing, reviewing, and managing translation projects either offline on the desktop tool or online in the cloud. Studio offers several core technologies to support you as you translate – translation memories (TMs) are the key component and other functionality includes termbases for managing terminology and machine translation (MT) to speed up the translation process. In addition to the core components, there are many features to help increase your productivity and ensure your consistency.

Trados Studio 2021 is the ground-breaking, dynamic translation solution offering true flexibility for busy translators and project managers. Work on the Studio desktop app on your PC or laptop for maximum productivity, plus keep projects moving when you're away from your desk using Trados Studio's cloud capabilities - Studio's new cloud companion that works seamlessly across PC, mobile, and tablet. Studio 2021's new, powerful features and enhancements will ensure everyone in your team achieves their full potential. The future way of working is here. The future of translation software is Studio 2021.

Discover what's new in Trados Studio 2021

Flexibility to work wherever you are

The dynamic combination and flexibility offered by Studio 2021 and it's cloud capabilities will benefit everyone — from individual translators through to project managers running large teams.

Higher quality translations can be delivered faster as you can:

  • Translate, review and manage work on the Studio 2021 desktop app when you're in the office
  • Move to the cloud when it suits to control your projects on any device, such as a tablet, using the new cloud capabilities or the new mobile app.

    Designed to raise your productivity

    When under pressure to deliver increasing volumes of translations within short timeframes, it's essential to find ways to be more productive. Studio 2021 offers many enhancements to help you work smarter, speed up your translation process, and increase your productivity, including:
  • Improved automation and quality assurance (QA) with the ability to customize your recognition settings for Placeables such as dates, times, currencies, and measurements
  • More powerful search with an upgrade to the Advanced Display Filter
  • Enhanced Translation Quality Assessment (TQA) interface.

    Personalize your Studio for increased functionality

    It's now easier than ever to personalize your Studio. You can access the RWS AppStore directly from Studio 2021 making it faster and easier to find, manage, update, and remove apps with fewer clicks. Apps are used by thousands of our customers to customize and extend the functionality of Studio to:
  • Improve and automate your translation, review, or terminology processes
  • Connect to third-party machine translation providers
  • Fine-tune your verification checks to enhance the quality of your translations.

    Choose peace of mind. Choose Trados. With RWS, we will always:
  • Keep you ahead through innovation — Together Studio 2021 and it's new cloud capabilities represent another leap forward in CAT tool innovation from RWS. This is part of our ongoing commitment to keep our users ahead of the curve
  • Keep you up-to-date with free events and training — From live webinars to local roadshows and in-person training, our community always has access to knowledge to help them succeed in their roles
  • Keep you supported through global communities — Online or face-to-face, our global community connects the right people, in the right language, when it matters most. Wherever you are you can always raise questions, find answers, and discuss and share ideas with the world’s largest translation software community.



    Software details


    Price Trados Studio 2021 Freelance - Ideal for freelance translators (€695/$845/£595/¥100,000)
    File formatsWork with any file format and any project. View list.
    License typeAvailable as desktop (perpetual) and online (Software as a Service)
    System requirements
    Operating systemWindows
    System requirements
    No data
    CompatibilityOpen standard file formats XLIFF, TMX, TBX & OLIF, interoperability with other CAT tools and an app store making it possible to integrate with any workflow.
    Support & upgrades
    Support and upgrades offered/includedPaid support available for unlimited specialist support and free upgrades, Free online community help from RWS employees, Free installation and licensing support
    Support and tutorial linksSupport available here.
    Free trial
    Free trial
    No data
    Languages supportedVirtually any language combination that is also supported by Microsoft Windows. View list.




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    4 out of 5
    How easy is it to learn?

    Great Tool, would be really helpful to new freelancers
    Review by 
    Gael Yvette Bilounga Mboke . This tool is really useful but I think, it does not have all the features I needed when translating.
    0 out of 1 found this review helpful.





    5 out of 5
    How easy is it to learn?

    I love this tool. I have been using since it came in a dongle and I could not imagine my self without it.
    Review by 
    Karen Picolin . I find the tool reliable and my work is more consistent, more organized and I feel more confident about the quality.

    Most of my clients also rely on this tool.
    0 out of 2 found this review helpful.





    1 out of 5
    How easy is it to learn?

    Avoid at all costs. It's worse than ever!
    Review by 
    David Gibney . It's incredibly slow compared to previous versions and full of bugs. Newer functions slowed the work down instead of speeding it up and auto-generated suggestions were junk.





    3 out of 5
    How easy is it to learn?

    Don't hate it, don't love it
    Review by 
    Becca Resnik . Steep learning curve, even just in terms of figuring out how to get files (Trados and output files, like Word) in and out. There's a lot about it that's nonintuitive, but it's not totally impossible to learn. The main thing I dislike is that it can get bogged down easily (my system is well above the requirements) and even crashes randomly, which is extremely frustrating.





    2 out of 5
    How easy is it to learn?

    I regret purchasing a licence
    Review by 
    Damien Poussier . I hesitated between this and MemoQ, with which I am much more familiar. But, swayed by its frankly baffling position as market leader, I went with Trados.
    I now regret that choice.
    The program looks and feels like something from the '90s. Slow, unwieldy and full of various bits that seem to do little else than take up space and get in the way of your work.
    I have often had to battle with it to get it to do what I want, something I've never experienced anywhere else.

    In short, look for alternatives. I'm convinced they are all better.