# Translation in Ionic App

**URL:** <https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/translation-in-ionic-app/181339>\
**Category:** Ionic Angular\
**Created:** [January 11, 2020, 8:25pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/translation-in-ionic-app/181339 "2020-01-11T20:25:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![nilsleistner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/6f9a4e/32.png) [@nilsleistner](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/nilsleistner)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2020, 8:25pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/translation-in-ionic-app/181339/1 "2020-01-11T20:25:33Z")

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Hi,  
I want to make my application translatable. Do you recommend the i18n way from angular or ngx-translate? Can you also give a short explanation why you use the one or the other.  
Thanks for your replies.  
Cheers

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**Author:** ![rapropos](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ionicframework/user_avatar/forum.ionicframework.com/rapropos/32/100227_2.png) [@rapropos](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/rapropos)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2020, 12:19am UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/translation-in-ionic-app/181339/2 "2020-01-12T00:19:12Z")

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> [@nilsleistner](#):
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> Do you recommend the i18n way from angular or ngx-translate?

The first option, combined with [this tooling](https://github.com/martinroob/ngx-i18nsupport/wiki/Tutorial-for-using-xliffmerge-with-angular-cli) until there’s something else.

> [@nilsleistner](#):
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> Can you also give a short explanation why you use the one or the other.

Because ngx-translate requires more runtime futzing with pipes and observables, whereas the stock Angular i18n does more build-time magic. Another large concern is that I find it easier to manage the translation process using XLIFF than the various ways I had to homebrew that with ngx-translate.