Seven years ago, almost to the day, we introduced support for 79 languages and 147 language variants in the apps you create. Before that time, Calcapp only had support for US English. (At the time, we were in beta and usage was free.)
All the languages supported language-specific number and date formatting. For example, 123,456.78 in US English is rendered as “123 456,78” in Swedish and “October 24, 2043” is rendered as “24 oktober, 2043” in Swedish. Many languages also supported date formatting for the calendar pop-up in date and time fields, displayed on desktop computers.
However, only 30 languages were translated in terms of the text labels shown in the apps themselves. That includes labels like Back (as in, “move back to the previous screen”) and Open (as in, “open the report I just downloaded”).
Today, thanks to the help of an intrepid user in Bulgaria, we now support 31 languages, including Bulgarian. Would you like your language to also be fully supported by Calcapp? Please get in touch and we’ll make it happen.
Out of sheer curiosity, we looked at what languages our published apps use. Here’s a pie chart:
As you can tell, English thoroughly dominates. That is partly because English is the default for all newly-created apps, though. Also, here we count all published apps, including tiny test apps created by users on our free trial.
If we only look at the apps created by our paying customers, English drops to less than half of all published apps. It stands to reason, then, that more than half our our customer base creates apps that are not in English.
We take that to mean that more than half of our customers may well have gone elsewhere had we not added support for more languages back in 2018. It appears that it was time spent.