A translation passes through a lot of hands before it ships. Someone translates it, someone reviews it, and someone fixes the last segment at five o'clock before delivery. Often that is one person wearing all three hats.
Whichever hat you have on, the same three things decide how the next hour goes: knowing what the text means where it will actually appear, a screen arranged for the task in front of you, and help that speeds you up without taking over. So we built the Wordbee Editor around those three.
See the Translation Where It Will Live
A segment on its own is a sentence without a room. "Save" on a button, "Save" in a headline, and "Save" in a legal notice can be three different translations, and a row in a grid does not tell you which one you are looking at.
The Preview panel does. Generate a preview of the translated document in any available language and it opens right beside your segments, in the layout your reader will see. Want it bigger? Open it in its own browser tab. Changed a few segments? Regenerate it and look again.
For content that never lives in a document, like UI strings, game dialogue, and subtitles, the Assets panel does the same job. The image, video, or reference file attached to a segment sits next to it, so the translator sees the screen the string belongs to.
So meaning gets checked in context, before delivery. The question "where does this appear?" gets answered in the editor, not in an email thread three days later.
A Workspace That Fits the Task in Front of You
A linguist translating a manual, a reviewer working through QA findings, and a project manager checking every language before delivery are doing three different jobs. They should not have to share one screen.
The editor has fourteen panels, from Memory Finder and Term Finder to QA, Comments, and Revision History. You decide which ones you see and where they go: stacked in the sidebar, docked in the bottom zone under the grid, or collapsed to an icon until you need them. Working on two monitors? Detach any panel into its own window and give the grid the full width of your main screen.
Then it stays that way. Your layout is saved per user, and separately for each job, project, and memory, so translation work reopens set up for translation and review work reopens set up for review. If a layout stops working for you, one click resets it.
That means less time rearranging and more time on the text. And because everyone sets up their own, nobody has to agree on one right way to lay out a screen, which, if you have ever tried to get five linguists to agree on anything, is a relief.
AI That Waits to Be Asked
Every professional linguist has an opinion about AI, and most of them want the same thing: help when they ask for it, with their own judgment still in charge.
That is how the AI editing assistant works. Open it from the segment you are on and pick one of nine modes. Fix fuzzy adapts a 90% match to the new source. Shorten trims a target that has to fit a character limit. Make formal and Make informal set the register, and Fix terminology brings the segment in line with your term bases. The assistant works from the source, the current translation, and your translation memory matches, and nothing reaches the segment until someone reviews the suggestion and clicks Apply.
Drag the asset into your workspace to start translating.
Ziehe die Datei in deinen Arbeitsbereich, um zu übersetzen.
Ziehe das Element in deinen Arbeitsbereich, um mit der Übersetzung zu beginnen.
The AI panel takes a different job off your plate. Instead of building a filter field by field, describe the segments you want to see in a sentence, and it builds the filter for you. Not quite right? Refine it with a follow-up.
And for the client whose contract says no AI, you can switch the assistants off for that project with one checkbox, or set it on an order form or project template so every project for that client starts without them. Every other project keeps its AI as usual.
So you get help the moment you want it, and a clear line wherever a client wants none.
Try It Where You Work
If you are already on Wordbee Translator, open any job and the Wordbee Editor is right there. If you are not, start a free trial and spend an afternoon in the grid.
For the full tour of what is inside, see the CAT editor page.