Monthly Release Roundup at Smartcat
October’s releases make it easier to bring reviewers into your content workflow, and give you clearer numbers on what that work delivers. The headline is the new Reviewer Experience and My Work 2.0 (Beta), joined by new reports, automated glossary upkeep, and native support for more file types.
Key takeaways
- Simpler review: invite and assign colleagues in chat through the Chief of Staff, with two new fixed roles (User, In-House Reviewer) for occasional collaborators.
- Clearer numbers: Translation Review Reports and the ROI Report are generally available on Anticipate and Autonomous plans, and Smartword counting is more precise.
- Glossaries that stay current: Glossary Auto-Approval adds repeatedly suggested terms automatically, with a threshold you set.
- More native workflows: upload MadCap Flare projects as-is, translate SCORM courses in their original packages, and use Keys, Variants, and JSON export in the Figma plugin.
The new Reviewer Experience and My Work 2.0 (Beta) give you a reworked, chat-native way to invite and manage reviewers, built on Smartcat's Chief of Staff, with two new fixed, lightweight roles (User, In-House Reviewer) designed for occasional collaborators.
The new Smartword counting update provides enhanced precision when calculating word counts across complex document types and file formats. This ensures clearer project estimates and seamless cost tracking for teams handling content across languages.
Right behind it, Translation Review Reports are generally available for Anticipate and Autonomous plans: three new reports giving workspace-, project-, and segment-level visibility into review activity, approval rates, and edit history, with no configuration required.
On the terminology side, Glossary Auto-Approval now promotes repeatedly-suggested terms into your dictionary automatically, with a configurable threshold, keeping glossaries a governed source of truth without the manual backlog.
Documentation and design teams got two native workflow upgrades: MadCap Flare projects can now be uploaded as-is with no export/rebuild cycle.
The Figma plugin's Asset translation mode gained per-object Keys, multi-state Variants, and a developer-ready JSON export.
For teams onboarding new users, Smartcat Academy launched a free "Getting Started with Smartcat" course, a ~60-minute, self-paced walkthrough from sign-up to running a first translation project.
More News from our Release Notes
The ROI Report is now generally available for users on Anticipate and Autonomous plans, displaying automatically within your workspace. Use it to benchmark Smartcat costs against conventional translation vendors, show stakeholders the investment value, and track savings over time.
Smartcat now translates SCORM courses directly within their original packages while preserving design and interactions and adding AI-powered source review and layout tools.
Project templates and folders now support customizable Locked, Required, or Optional field settings and streamlined folder creation. Custom field values set on a folder are inherited by all its projects and subfolders, and are permanently recorded upon job completion for consistent autoinvoicing and payment filtering.
Mark Project as Complete now shows an estimated per-supplier cost preview upon confirmation, maintains a full assignment history with one-click re-invite for tasks, and allows closing projects from any state.
Project Management Dashboard gained a filter bar, saved/pinned filters, new task filters (language, deadline, tags, supplier status, folders), reorderable columns, and shareable filtered views.
The AI model lineup expanded with Claude Opus 4.8, Claude Opus 5.5, Claude Sonnet 5.5, and Gemini 3.8 Flash, all available for custom Content Translator Coworker skills, continuing Smartcat's AI model orchestration approach with human oversight built in throughout.
Residual-based AI translation reservation (opt-in) changes how Smartwords are reserved for large, frequently re-imported documents, preventing parallel-language AI translation tasks from failing due to Smartwords balance.