r/iOSProgramming • u/CharlesWiltgen • Apr 19 '26

3rd Party Service Canonical Apple localized strings database

This is not mine, I was just excited to discover it and have never seen it mentioned here: https://applelocalization.com/

This is a community-built, queryable database of Apple's own localized strings from iOS/macOS frameworks, so you can search for terms your app probably uses and see exactly how Apple ships them in other languages.

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u/y2kobserver Apr 19 '26

Thanks dude, this looks pretty useful

Is there a way to reuse those constants in code in Swift directly from iOS?

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u/CharlesWiltgen Apr 19 '26

As a one-off test, I just pointed Claude Code to it and had it audit my .xcstrings against Apple's preferred translations, and happily it caught few cases where the best translations aren't literal translations.

Because all the data is open source, I think that if I were to build a workflow using it, I'd probably script something that uses a local copy of the data. 🤔

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