Qt-Linguist

April 25, 2026 · View on GitHub

Qt Linguist is a string editing tool for Qt app translations that edits .ts files. This is a small tool included in the Qt development environment. But the full Qt is a installer of gigabytes. Since Qt is open source, so Qt Linguist standalone can be released.

Because tracking this sucker down is too hard, and so is building all of Qt.

Windows

Current version = 6.11.0/5.15.18

  • Windows releases only in this repository. Zip files contain linguist.exe, lconvert.exe, lrelease.exe, lrelease-pro.exe, lprodump.exe (up to 6.10), ltext2id.exe (6.11 and onward), lupdate.exe, and lupdate-pro.exe. Executables are static, 64-bit/32-bit (Qt6/Qt5, respectively), and built with MSVC 2022. The “translations” folder is also generated, but there is no known way to display. See issue #1.

  • rddim/QtLinguistPortable (GitHub) Please replace with the latest with the contents of the above Zip.

  • Official Releases (Qt) Release in 2019.

Mac

Linux

  • Qt Linguist (Flathub) The official releases are available on Flathub.

Documentation

Source code