# Localization

URL: https://storelift.net/features/localization/
Language: en
Updated: 2026-09-18

Keywords do not travel between language slots. A word you wrote in the Turkish slot does not enter the English slot's searches — but one storefront can index several slots. So an empty slot is a measurable loss, and almost no tool puts a number on it.

## In measured numbers

Every figure on this page is read from a code path, not written by hand — the same discipline the product applies to your own data.

## What gets measured

| Signal | Where it comes from | What it answers |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Slot occupancy | Your listing, read per language slot | Which slots are written and which are empty |
| Characters an empty slot would open | Field limits × unwritten slots | What the gap is worth, in characters you could target |
| Countries per slot | Apple's storefront-to-language defaults | Which markets an empty slot is costing you |
| Screenshot localization | Screenshot fingerprints per storefront | How many countries are served the identical image set |
| Rank across storefronts | The same keyword measured in each country | Whether a translation actually changed anything |

NOTE: Screenshot coverage is measured by fingerprint, not by filename. Two storefronts serving the same set are shown as one untouched market — which is usually a much larger number than teams expect.

## How it works

1. Every storefront you track is read separately. The same app is a different listing in each one, and the differences are the point.
2. Slots are mapped to countries. A slot is not a country: one language slot can be the default for many storefronts, which is what makes an empty one expensive.
3. Screenshots are fingerprinted per storefront so "localized" means the images actually differ, not that the field exists.
4. The same keyword is compared across countries, so after you translate you can see whether the rank moved in the market the translation was for.

## What you do with it



## What this does not do

We do not translate anything, and we do not score translation quality — a machine grade on someone's copy is an opinion, not a measurement. What we measure is structural: which slot is empty, which countries it covers, whether the images differ, and what the rank did afterwards.

## What each plan includes

|  | Free | Pro | Studio |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Empty-slot audit | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Countries each slot serves | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Screenshot localization check | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Storefronts compared | 2 | All 128 | All 128 |
| Cross-storefront rank comparison | 2 storefronts | All tracked | All tracked |

Pro is $20/month ($18 billed yearly), Studio $60/month ($54 billed yearly). The audit works on the free plan; what the paid plans add is how many storefronts you can hold in the comparison at once.

## FAQ

Q: Do keywords carry over between language slots?
A: No. A word in one slot does not enter another slot's searches. That is the whole reason an empty slot has a cost you can count.

Q: Is a language slot the same as a country?
A: No. One slot can be the default for many storefronts, which is why the screen lists the countries under each slot rather than the other way round.

Q: How do you know whether screenshots are localized?
A: We fingerprint the image set per storefront. If two countries are served the identical set, they are counted as one untouched market.

Q: Do you translate my listing?
A: No. We measure which slots are empty and what they would reach; writing them stays yours.