Gravity Forms Multilingual vs Loco Translate
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| Feature | Gravity Forms Multilingual v1.8.5 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free Visit Details | Loco Translate v2.8.9 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free · ★ 4.8/5 Visit Details |
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| At a glance | ||
| Active installs | — | 1M+ |
| Last updated | — | September 30, 2026 |
| Editions | Gravity Forms Multilingual | Loco Translate |
| Pros | Form fields, labels and confirmations go through WPML translation; Notifications can be sent in the recipient's language; Compatibility hooks for Survey, Conversational Forms and Gravity Flow | In-admin PO editor, no desktop translation tools needed; Extracts strings and builds POT templates from source code; Compiles MO and JSON files without gettext installed; Machine translation through your own API keys |
| Cons | Needs WPML 4.6.4 or later, which is a separate paid product; Needs Gravity Forms active; Translation is managed in WPML, not in the form editor | Machine translation needs keys from DeepL, OpenAI, Gemini or OpenRouter; Translates interface strings only, not site content; Not a multilingual content plugin; no translated URLs |
| Mentioned in our posts | — | 2 |
| Features (Translation plugins checklist) | ||
| Machine translation | — | Yes |
| Visual editor | — | Yes |
| SEO-friendly URLs | — | No |
| WooCommerce | — | No |
| Free version | — | Yes |
| More features | ||
| Other features | Form fields and labels sent to the WPML translation editor, Notifications sent in the recipient's language, Notification routing by language, Save and continue email translated, Entry field values handled per language, WooCommerce currency filter, Survey and Conversational Forms add-on support, Gravity Forms Quiz support | In-admin PO editor, String extraction to POT templates, Native MO compilation, JSON (Jed) file export for script translations, Protected languages directory, WP-CLI commands for extract, fetch and sync, Fetch official translations from translate.wordpress.org |
| Integrations | ||
| E-commerce | WooCommerce | — |
| Plugins | WPML (sitepress-multilingual-cms) ($), Gravity Forms, Gravity Flow | — |
| Other | — | OpenAI, Google Gemini, OpenRouter, DeepL, WordPress.org translations (GlotPress) |
| Requires WordPress | — | 6.6 |
| Requires PHP | — | 7.4 |
| Tested up to | — | 7.1.2 |
| Phones home | No | No |
| External services | — | translate.wordpress.org, api.openai.com, generativelanguage.googleapis.com, openrouter.ai |