# Translate applications

Flow Connect supports translating your application packages, applications, and components into multiple languages. Translation work happens on two surfaces:

* **Application metadata** — names and descriptions for application packages and applications — is translated in the **Hub**.
* **Application content** — the user-facing text inside Applications, Components, and Portal Pages — is translated in **Designer** using Phrasebooks.

## Application metadata

In the Hub, open the application settings screen from the context menu.

The application’s name and description will be used as the default if no translation is available for the client’s language.

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To translate the application’s name and description into other languages, use the translations icon and add translations for the organization’s languages.

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Application metadata—such as icon, color, and translations—will be updated each time an application in the package is deployed.
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## Application content

User-facing text inside Applications, Components, and Portal Pages is translated using **Phrasebooks**. A Phrasebook can be **local** to a single Application or Component, or it can be a shared **Phrasebook asset** that is enabled by any Application, Component, or Portal Page that needs the same translations.

For the full reference — including ICU Message Format, parameterized phrases, pluralization, and how to create, version, and enable Phrasebook assets — see [Translations](/flow-connect/working-with-connect/create-and-design/phrasebooks.md).


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