Which AI tools do people use to translate and localize your app or content?

Across the 11 sourced use cases in this guide, the most used tools are Claude Code, Claude, Codex, ArtCraft, ElevenLabs.

How much does it cost to get started?

0 of the 11 use cases can start on a free plan. The most common paid starting price is $17/mo (1 use cases). Prices come from each tool's official pricing page.

How long does setup take?

3 of the 11 use cases list a setup time of an hour or less. Each card shows the setup time the builder reported.

Are these real examples?

Yes. Every use case links to its public source (an X post, a Hacker News thread or a GitHub repo) with the author and date, so you can check it yourself.

How to translate and localize your app or content with AI

Short answer: Give a coding agent such as Claude Code or Codex your source files (blog posts, app strings, store screenshots or subtitles) and a target list of languages, and have it translate into separate files while keeping formatting, links and placeholders intact. Builders below put 493 blog posts spanning 17 years into 10 languages in 4 days with Claude Code agents, localized App Store screenshots into 13 and 20+ languages, shipped a loyalty app report in 11 languages including right-to-left ones, and dubbed videos into Japanese with the ElevenLabs MCP. Ask a native speaker to review the pages that make money (pricing, checkout, store listings) before launch.

How builders translated blogs, apps, store screenshots, books and videos with AI agents, and what they checked by hand. 11 matching use cases below, each with a public source.

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Get started in 3 steps

Keep text out of your code in string files first, then ask the agent to translate those files and leave placeholders and links untouched.
Give it a short glossary of your product terms and brand names so every language stays consistent.
Have a native speaker check pricing, checkout and store pages, and test right-to-left languages on a real phone.

Creators & videoX · @realMattAbrams

Have a Grok Bot team translate and produce a book

realMattAbrams runs a custom Grok Bot team that is translating a Hebrew tome and producing the book. He found ArtCraft's DesignCraft can be driven headless by agents through a CLI at about the same token spend, so the bots can use it for layout.

See pricing pageongoingAdvanced

Grok BotArtCraft

Vibe coding & appsX · @whcefri

Generate App Store screenshots in 20+ languages through an MCP tool

whcefri found App Store screenshots the most painful part of shipping apps, so he built a free tool that builds the theme, translates into 20+ languages and renders for iPhone and iPad. It has an MCP server so Claude can do it all.

See pricing page30 minBeginner

ClaudeMCP

Creators & videoHacker News · swax

Dub foreign films into English in each actor's own voice, locally

With no English subtitles or dubs for many shows, the author packed weeks of scripts and guidance into a repo: clone it, open Codex or Claude and tell it which video to dub into which language. It runs on your machine and keeps each actor's voice.

$17/moA few hoursIntermediate

OpenAI Codex Claude Code

Creators & videoX · @GlennHasABeard

Make and dub a talking character video in one Claude chat with the ElevenLabs MCP

GlennHasABeard made a snail news anchor start to finish in one Claude chat. Claude Opus 5.5 used the ElevenLabs MCP to voice him, dub the line into Japanese and make the theme with Eleven Music, and Seedance 2.5 lip-synced him to each voice track.

See pricing page1 hourIntermediate

ClaudeElevenLabsSeedance

Creators & videoX · @stronghamjji

Dub a video into another language with one line in Claude Code or Codex

stronghamjji's PersoDub edits, erases subtitles, separates audio and dubs in one app. One chat line to Claude Code or Codex dubs a video, using local models or an API for better quality and 100+ languages.

See pricing page30 minIntermediate

Claude CodeCodex

Vibe coding & appsX · @LaithAljunaidy

Add a points liability report to a loyalty app in 11 languages

LaithAljunaidy built a points liability page for Dot, his loyalty app, with Claude. Merchants see what their customers' points are worth in money, what sits in live codes and what expires in 30, 60 and 90 days, with one CSV export, in 11 languages including right-to-left Arabic.

See pricing page1 dayIntermediate

Claude

Marketing & growthX · @heynickquick

Translate 17 years of blog posts into 10 languages with Claude Code agents

heynickquick reports that Chandler Nguyen had 493 English blog posts spanning 17 years and said a translation team would cost somewhere between "uncomfortable" and "refinance the house." He got them into 10 languages in 4 days with Claude Code agents.

See pricing page4 daysIntermediate

Claude Code

Vibe coding & appsX · @dray_dakota

Turn a world history poster into an interactive timeline site in 10 languages

dray_dakota saw a poster showing 6,000 years of world history on one timeline and spent an hour with Codex turning it into a free interactive website in 10 languages.

See pricing page1 hourBeginner

Codex

Vibe coding & appsX · @tdinh_me

Replace a translation SaaS with an in-app AI translation harness

Tony Dinh dropped a $124/month i18n service for a built-in translation harness that knows where each string appears and how much space it has. It translated 2,705 keys into 16 locales for about $0.75 with GPT-Luna 6.

$0.10 in / $0.50 out per 1M tokens1 dayIntermediate

GPT-6 Luna

Marketing & growthX · @huyphamm85

Localize App Store screenshots into 13 languages with only Claude Code

huyphamm85 localized his app's App Store screenshots into 13 languages using only Claude Code, with no Figma or other design tool, and turned the workflow into a Claude Code plugin.

See pricing page1 hourBeginner

Claude Code

Vibe coding & appsHacker News · mtlduo

Build a daily guessing game with an AI judge for free-typed answers

Wonderhop asks questions like "name a food a lot of people hate" and scores the answer most people (or nobody) would give. An AI judge checks free-typed answers in 10 languages against sources like Wikipedia in under a second on average, handling typos, plurals and nicknames.

See pricing pageSeveral weeksIntermediate

Common questions

How do you translate and localize your app or content with AI?: Give a coding agent such as Claude Code or Codex your source files (blog posts, app strings, store screenshots or subtitles) and a target list of languages, and have it translate into separate files while keeping formatting, links and placeholders intact. Builders below put 493 blog posts spanning 17 years into 10 languages in 4 days with Claude Code agents, localized App Store screenshots into 13 and 20+ languages, shipped a loyalty app report in 11 languages including right-to-left ones, and dubbed videos into Japanese with the ElevenLabs MCP. Ask a native speaker to review the pages that make money (pricing, checkout, store listings) before launch.
Which AI tools do people use to translate and localize your app or content?: Across the 11 sourced use cases in this guide, the most used tools are Claude Code, Claude, Codex, ArtCraft, ElevenLabs.
How much does it cost to get started?: 0 of the 11 use cases can start on a free plan. The most common paid starting price is $17/mo (1 use cases). Prices come from each tool's official pricing page.
How long does setup take?: 3 of the 11 use cases list a setup time of an hour or less. Each card shows the setup time the builder reported.
Are these real examples?: Yes. Every use case links to its public source (an X post, a Hacker News thread or a GitHub repo) with the author and date, so you can check it yourself.

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