LocoAI – Auto Translate for Loco Translate

84 Quality Score

Active Installs

22/30

A 72/30 popularity score reflects a healthy 70,000 active installs, which is solid for a developer-facing addon but a fraction of what front-end translation plugins like Loco Translate or GTranslate pull in.

Update Freshness

25/25

A perfect 100/25 maintenance score is supported by an update on 2026-06-23 and a tested-with tag for WordPress 7.0, signalling the author is actively keeping the plugin current.

User Rating

15/15

The 98/100 rating across 635 reviews is exceptional and indicates near-universal satisfaction among users who have rated the plugin.

Support Health

8/15

A 50/15 support score reflects a very small sample: only 1 support thread in total, which limits confidence in long-term responsiveness despite a 100% resolution rate.

WP Compatibility

15/15

A 100/15 compatibility score is backed by a wide WP range (5.0 through 7.0) and a PHP 7.2 floor that covers the vast majority of hosting environments in 2026.

Scores higher than 93% of indexed plugins

About

LocoAI - Auto Translate For Loco Translate is a powerful tool for developers looking to quickly translate their WordPress plugins and themes.

Active Installs 70k+

Rating ★★★★½ 4.9/5

Last Updated 2026-09-01 9:13am GMT

Requires WordPress 5.0+

Tested Up To 7.1

Requires PHP 7.2+

✓ No known vulnerabilities

What It Does

LocoAI extends Loco Translate by adding automatic machine translation powered by services such as ChatGPT and Google Translate, so developers can bulk populate .po/.mo strings inside the WordPress admin instead of translating each string by hand. It is aimed at speeding up the localization workflow for plugins and themes rather than rendering a translated front-end for visitors.

Who It's For

This is a fit for WordPress plugin and theme authors, agencies, and small in-house teams who already use Loco Translate and need a fast first-pass translation across many strings and locales. It also suits multilingual SaaS and ecommerce sites that maintain their own strings in custom code and want to shorten turnaround on new language releases.

Who Should Skip It

If you need a full front-end multilingual site for visitors (translated pages, menus, URLs), you should skip this plugin and pick a runtime translation plugin like TranslatePress or GTranslate. Casual bloggers translating a handful of strings will get little value from a paid AI addon layered on top of Loco Translate.

The Bottom Line

LocoAI is a focused, well-maintained accelerator for developers already invested in the Loco Translate ecosystem, with a quality score of 83.9/100 and outstanding user ratings. Its narrow scope, developer-only positioning, and tiny support footprint mean it is not a substitute for a full multilingual site plugin. If you translate plugin or theme strings regularly, it is worth a serious look; everyone else can ignore it.

Pick GTranslate when you need visitor-facing automatic translation of pages, posts, and URLs, not just developer string translation.

TranslatePress – Translate Multilingual sites with AI Translation 93/100

Pick TranslatePress when you want an editor-driven, front-end translation workflow with optional AI assist, rather than a backend .po/.mo tool.

Loco Translate 89/100

Pick Loco Translate on its own when you only need manual in-browser editing of translations and do not want the added cost of an AI addon.

Cyr-To-Lat 86/100

Pick Cyr-To-Lat when your actual problem is transliteration of Cyrillic slugs rather than translating strings, so it is only relevant in a loose category sense.

Royal MCP 85/100

Pick Royal MCP when you want a general AI connector for content generation rather than a translation pipeline tied to Loco Translate.