Shopify Translate & Adapt

Shopify Translate & Adapt

Pricing
Free
Popular with stores like yours
Based in United States
Highlights
Use directly in Shopify admin
Rating
4.5 (881)
Developer
Shopify

Speak every customer’s language. It’s easy to translate and adapt your store content for any market.

Boost traffic, improve your SEO, and build trust with audiences around the world by localizing the content on your Shopify store for different markets. Translate & Adapt lets you auto-translate up to two languages for free, and manually add as many translations as you wish. The side-by-side editor makes it easy to compare and review your translations, and can also be used to adjust content between markets that speak the same language to ensure cultural, seasonal, and regional relevance.

Boost traffic, improve your SEO, and build trust with audiences around the world by localizing the content on your Shopify store for different markets. Translate & Adapt lets you auto-translate up to two languages for free, and manually add as many translations as you wish. The side-by-side editor makes it easy to compare and review your translations, and can also be used to adjust content between markets that speak the same language to ensure cultural, seasonal, and regional relevance. more
  • Manually add, edit, and review translations with the side-by-side editor.
  • Auto-translate 2 languages with Google Translate (cloud.google.com/translate).
  • Adapt content to reflect spelling and messaging variations between markets.
  • Localize directly from the theme editor, or any resource page in your admin.
  • Manage localized store content seamlessly from your Shopify admin.
Popular with stores like yours
Based in United States
Highlights
Use directly in Shopify admin

Languages

Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, and Vietnamese

Reviews (881)

Overall rating
4.5
Counts per rating level
  • 69% of ratings are 5 stars
  • 21% of ratings are 4 stars
  • 4% of ratings are 3 stars
  • 2% of ratings are 2 stars
  • 4% of ratings are 1 stars
What merchants think

Feedback submitted

Merchants highly praise this app for its efficient, high-quality translations in multiple languages, including German and English, which enhance customer understanding and increase blog traffic. They appreciate the ability to manually adjust translations for tailored content and the one-click, error-free automatic translation feature. The app is noted for its ease of use and time-saving capabilities, with a supportive and responsive help team enhancing the user experience.

June 30, 2025

I really love this app. We've been using it for over 1 year in one of our shops, and are now implementing a second shop using it as well. I like that I have the ability to change the automatic translations to my taste, however I do wish that the option to show products in the reverse order was available inside the app... as it is they are always displayed by their default order, and to translate new products as I insert them, I always have to navigate the bottom arrow to the very last page (and they are a lot), so that I can translate the latest product!... if you could give the option to order the products in reverse order, it would help so much!!!

PORTUGAL Feeling
Portugal
3 months using the app
Edited June 13, 2025

I need a lot of translation work into German and this translation app delivers every time. Since I am a native speaker, I check the translations and they are on point, exact without fail. I highly recommend it. Amazing app and awesome support from the company.

Technium Foundry
United States
12 months using the app
July 5, 2025

I'm reporting a massive failure in translation integrity and UI design inside Shopify's Translate & Adapt app. The app is silently cherry-picking what it translates and has published many half-translated, outdated, or blank pages to my live international storefront — without warning, notice, or transparency. It is hiding this behind a deeply inefficient and non-transparent interface, and leaving me with a grueling, manual audit job that no modern technology stack should ever require.

This issue has cost me visibility in Google, revenue from international traffic, and days of unpaid labor just to locate and fix what Shopify never properly built or marketed in the first place.
Translate & Adapt is Failing on Every Front:

It has arbitrarily skipped translating major portions of many product descriptions, default product and variant fields, collections, metaobjects, menus, etc.

It does not alert me to untranslated or out-of-sync content.

It offers no dashboard or audit view to track which items have been translated and which haven’t.

It forces me to manually click through every parent > child > grandchild element in the app to detect translation failures. And with 975 failures according to Google, this workflow is unacceptable.

Each click comes with a 10–20 second load time, and each missing translation takes up to 2 minutes to fix.

There is no batch view, no summary, and no timeline of what's been changed or ignored.

SEO Consequences — and Why This Is Costing Me Revenue

The result is that hundreds of translated pages and site elements are not approved by Google because of:

Outdated content

Wrong languages (e.g., body text in English on a Dutch page)

Thin content (e.g., product title + images, but no body text)

Blank product descriptions

Mismatched content across locales

Missing translations for default fields or field values (e.g., price, color, gender, and age which are required by Google)

Google doesn’t just check if a translated page exists — it checks for:

Relevant content in the expected language

Unique, high-quality body copy

Content-to-code ratio and completeness

If a page is:

Just images or 1–2 words

Missing description text

Marked Dutch URL but written in English

Identical or near-duplicate to the English page
Showing outdated content that's inconsistent with the same page in another translation

Lacking critical information like price, color, gender, and age group

Google will suppress or deindex that page.

And that’s exactly what’s happening:
Google Search Console currently shows 975 translated URLs as “Not Approved” — many flagged for content, indexing, or missing product attributes that originate directly from incomplete translations and broken data inheritance caused by Translate & Adapt.
Shopify Has Misled by Omission.

Shopify markets Translate & Adapt as a seamless way to expand globally. I built my international storefront using Shopify’s tools, trusting the system to behave predictably and honor its own architecture.

Instead, I’ve been forced into a days-long audit of every product, data field, menu, collection, etc., wasting time I should be spending on design, production, and marketing. I'm now looking at at least a full week of manual fixes ahead — just to correct what should never have happened, much less happened deep under the hood with no notification or warning.
What I Need from Shopify Immediately:

A formal acknowledgment that Translate & Adapt cherry-picks content silently and has no features in place to notify merchants or help them fix it in a reasonable workflow.

A clear admission that this breaks international SEO and harms indexing in Google Merchant Center and organic search.

A commitment and timeline for implementing basic protections:

A visual dashboard of untranslated content

A bulk view of translation coverage

Warnings for untranslated or outdated content

Documentation of these limitations and a bug report escalation to the Translate & Adapt product team.

Credit or compensation for the hours of manual work and the lost visibility/revenue caused by this system failure since installing this app.

This is not a content issue. It’s a platform issue — a system that publishes broken content without ever notifying the merchant.

Please escalate this ticket to a senior product manager or tech lead on the Translate & Adapt team. I am not accepting surface-level replies. This needs to be addressed at the architectural level.

X Over 0
United States
12 months using the app

Support

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Developer

Shopify

151 O’Connor St, Ottawa, ON, ON, CA

Launched

August 16, 2022

Data access

This app needs access to the following data to work on your store. Learn why in the developer's privacy policy .

View personal data:

Store owner, content providers

  • Store owner

    Name, email address, phone number, physical address

  • Content providers

    Email address, IP address, browser and operating system

View and edit store data:

Products, orders, Online Store, Shopify admin

  • Edit products

    Products or collections

  • View orders

    Get delivery profile and location group information assigned to the app

  • Edit your Online Store

    Pages on your Online Store, metaobject definitions, metaobjects, checking for web cookies and conversion tracking pixels, or theme

  • View Shopify admin

    Files, legal policies, or Manage privacy settings of the shop

  • Edit other data

    Locales, Shopify Markets settings, notification settings, Online Store navigation, Access for shipping rules, images, or translations

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