A Weglot alternative that lives inside Shopify
Weglot serves your translated pages through a layer of its own that your domain has to point at, on subdomains or subfolders. Lingomatic writes into Shopify’s translation layer instead: no DNS record to change, no script on your storefront, and nothing left to unpick if you ever leave.
- No DNS changes
- Billed through Shopify
- Translations stay if you go
In their words
What merchants say when they go looking
Weglot holds 4.5 stars across 827 reviews, and its five-star page is full of people praising the support and how much of their store it reaches. The three below are our selection from the low-star pages, picked because each describes one thing a proxy architecture changes for a store: DNS, word counts and billing.
“My website is down already for 7 days!! I am receiving an error because they messed up my DNS completely and now globally my website is down.”
“Our small business (200 products), with only two translated languages, somehow exceeds 200,000 words, putting us in the $299/month pricing tier.”
“I’ve uninstalled weglot app but still be charged in the next month.”
Quoted verbatim and anonymised. We leave the store names out on purpose. Read the one-star reviews on Weglot’s listing ↗
The structural difference
Proxy or native, and why it shows up later
Almost everything merchants argue about later comes down to whether the translated page is assembled by the app or by Shopify. Weglot’s architecture is a translation layer in front of your store, on subdomains or subfolders, that your DNS records have to point at. Lingomatic writes translations into Shopify and then gets out of the way.
| Proxy or JS layer | Native (Lingomatic) | |
|---|---|---|
| Where translations are stored | On the app’s own servers, served through its layer | In Shopify’s translation layer, on your store |
| Setup | DNS records, for subdomains or subfolders | Pick your languages. Your domain is untouched. |
| hreflang and canonicals | Generated by the app | Generated by Shopify Markets |
| Storefront rendering | Text is swapped as the page loads | Shopify serves the translated text, so nothing flickers |
| URL handles | Translated, with the app’s URL scheme | Untouched unless you turn it on |
| After uninstall | Switcher, tags and redirects can linger; DNS has to be rolled back | Published translations stay; our copy is deleted after 48 hours |
| Billing | Direct card payment, outside Shopify | Shopify subscription that ends with the app |
Native means Shopify Markets does the multilingual SEO for you. Shopify’s own documentation on international selling describes how subfolders and hreflang are handled.
Pricing
What the meter is counting
Weglot bills per word across the store: 10,000 words on Starter at $17/month for one language, 50,000 on Business at $32 for three, 200,000 on Pro at $87 for five, and higher tiers above that. Merchants rarely complain about the rate. They complain that the number climbs while nobody adds any content.
Lingomatic meters credits, and one credit is one word of Standard translation: the same unit, and the same thing to resent. The difference has to be in the rules around it. You see the estimate before a job runs, imported and duplicated translations cost nothing, draft and archived products cost nothing, unchanged content costs nothing, there is no overage and no automatic upgrade, and credit packs do not expire.
Basic
Free
10,000 credits · 2 languages · 100 products
Growth
$12/mo
50,000 credits · 5 languages · 500 products
Pro
$39/mo
200,000 credits · unlimited languages and products
Brand voice, custom instructions, per-language register, glossary and do-not-translate rules are on every plan, including the free one.
When Weglot is the right call
If you need text translated that never passes through Shopify’s Translations API, such as an embedded third-party widget, a headless front end, or content Shopify simply does not expose, a proxy can reach it and a native app cannot. That is a real capability, and it is why some merchants who tried cheaper apps report that only part of their text came across.
If your team already works in Weglot’s dashboard and your word count sits comfortably inside a tier, switching costs more than it saves. And if two languages is all you will ever need, Shopify’s own Translate & Adapt is free and enough.
Lingomatic is bounded by what Shopify exposes, and we would rather you knew that before installing than after. We are also new. The app launched in March 2026, so there is no long review history to weigh against Weglot’s ten years.
FAQ
Switching from Weglot: the questions merchants ask
Can I import my Weglot translations into Lingomatic?
Usually not, and it is fairer to say so up front. Weglot serves translated pages through its own layer rather than writing into Shopify’s Translations API, so in most stores there is nothing sitting in Shopify for us to import. Export whatever Weglot lets you export, then expect to re-translate. Apps that publish natively (Shopify Translate & Adapt, T Lab, LangShop) import at zero credits instead.
Do I have to change my DNS to use Lingomatic?
No. Lingomatic publishes into Shopify’s translation layer and your translated storefronts are Shopify Markets subfolders on your own domain. There is no record to add, and none to roll back if you leave.
Will switching hurt my search rankings?
Your URLs do not change. Lingomatic leaves product, collection, page and article handles untouched unless you switch handle translation on yourself, and hreflang and canonical tags are generated by Shopify Markets rather than by the app. What does need care is the gap between uninstalling one app and publishing with the next, so publish first and uninstall second.
What happens to my translations if I uninstall Lingomatic?
They stay published on your store, because they live in Shopify’s own translation layer rather than on our servers. We delete our copy 48 hours later, as Shopify requires. Publish before you leave any translation app, ours included.
Is Lingomatic billed through Shopify?
Yes. It is a Shopify app subscription, so it appears on your Shopify invoice and ends when you uninstall the app. There is no separate card on file, no overage charge, and no automatic upgrade to a higher tier.
How much does Lingomatic cost next to Weglot?
Basic is free: 10,000 credits a month, 2 languages, 100 products. Growth is $12/month for 5 languages, 50,000 credits and 500 products. Pro is $39/month for 200,000 credits with unlimited languages and products. One credit is one word of Standard translation.
Keep reading
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Read itTranscy alternative
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Read itWeglot and Shopify are trademarks of their respective owners and are named here only to identify the apps being compared. Lingomatic is an independent app, not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by any of them.
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Try it on two languages before you move anything
No DNS record, no card: 10,000 credits a month across 2 languages on the free plan. Publish a language, look at it on your storefront, and decide from there.