If you're looking at Lingvanex, you may be deciding between a translator your colleagues can install and a translation engine your IT team would run. Both ship desktop apps for Windows and macOS, so the difference lies in what each company is selling.
Lingvanex builds its own machine translation engine and offers it as desktop software, APIs, SDKs, and on-premise servers, which suits engineering teams building translation into their own systems. Lexibird is a ready-to-use translator built on leading AI models you can choose between, with shared glossaries and workspaces for the whole team.
At a glance
| Lexibird | Lingvanex | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | AI translator app for individuals and teams | Translation engine offered as apps, APIs, SDKs, and on-premise servers |
| Translation engine | Claude, GPT, or Gemini families, or Auto | Lingvanex's own machine translation |
| Languages | 200+ for text translation | About 110 |
| Terminology | Shared glossaries in the app, import CSV, TSV, or TMX | Custom terminology in API and on-premise products |
| Documents | PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, XLIFF, and more, layout preserved | PDF, DOCX, DOC, ODT, RTF, TXT, and more |
| Desktop | macOS and Windows, global shortcut, screen-region capture | Windows and macOS, keyboard shortcuts for selected text |
| Team features | Shared workspaces, admin and member roles, single sign-on on Business | Slack translation and enterprise integrations |
| Privacy | Zero data retention on Business | On-premise deployment |
What is Lexibird?
Lexibird is a translator you sign up for rather than deploy: no server, no API keys, no model to tune. Each person on your team gets text, documents, screenshots, recordings, and shared glossaries in one app, backed by leading AI models they can pick between.
What is Lingvanex?
Lingvanex develops its own machine translation technology covering around 110 languages. Its products include desktop translators, a cloud translation API, mobile SDKs, Slack translation, phone-call translation, and on-premise machine translation that can run inside private or air-gapped networks. Its enterprise products support custom terminology and models tuned to specialized vocabulary.
1. An app for the team, not infrastructure to run
Much of Lingvanex's business strength is for developers: an API to call, an SDK to embed, or a server to install. That's more than most teams need when the goal is simply to translate their own work.
Picture a marketing manager who needs a product brochure in Spanish and a support lead who wants to read a customer's message in Polish. In Lexibird they open the web app or the desktop app and translate. Admins invite people into a shared workspace and assign roles, with no IT project required.
2. Choose the model, not just the engine
Lingvanex translates with its own engine, and improving results for your domain means customizing or retraining it through its enterprise products. Lexibird lets each person pick from leading AI models in the Claude, GPT, and Gemini families, or let Auto decide.
These models read the whole passage. An English support reply like "Sorry for the hassle, we'll get this sorted today" comes out in German as a warm, natural apology instead of a stiff word-for-word rendering, and you can switch to a formal tone for a client who expects it. If one model's phrasing doesn't fit, try another on the same text.
3. Glossaries without a retraining project
Lingvanex handles specialized terminology at the infrastructure level, through its API and on-premise server. In Lexibird, glossaries are part of the app: add your product names and preferred terms once, and every text translation picks them up.
Glossaries are shared across the team workspace, so the sales team and the support team use the same translation for "workspace" or "billing cycle". Terminology you already keep in a spreadsheet or another translation tool comes in through a file import, no engineer required.
4. Documents, screenshots, and recordings in one place
Both products translate documents. Lexibird's document translation handles Word, PDF, Excel, HTML, and XLIFF files up to 40 MB, several at a time, and returns them with the original layout.
The same app handles what doesn't come as a file. Lingvanex's desktop app translates text you select. Lexibird's can also read text you can't select: when a Polish dialog box pops up in a vendor's tool, draw a frame around it and get the translation. Upload a recorded call for a transcript, dictate a reply, or have the translation read aloud, and a browser extension covers text on web pages.
5. Privacy without running your own servers
Lingvanex can run fully offline and on-premise, and for air-gapped networks that's a real requirement Lexibird doesn't meet. Most teams, though, want strong privacy without maintaining a translation server.
Lexibird's Business plan provides zero data retention, on by default across the web app, desktop app, and extension. Rather than hosting the model yourself, you get a guarantee about where text goes: only to AI providers that keep nothing, and if none of them can serve a request, Lexibird refuses it instead of falling back to one that keeps data. Business also adds single sign-on with SAML or OIDC and domain verification.
Which one should you choose?
Lingvanex makes sense if you need translation running offline inside your own infrastructure or built into your product through an API.
Choose Lexibird if:
- Nobody on your team wants to install, update, or monitor a translation server
- You'd rather switch to a different AI model than retrain an engine when results fall short
- Your product names should translate consistently without an API project
- You work in languages beyond Lingvanex's roughly 110, since Lexibird translates text in more than 200
Try Lexibird with your team and see how it handles your next translation.
