flitto.comReviews of flitto.com

Read all the reviews and talked to Claude, Grok, and Gemini. Everything says to stay away from them. Thank you for posting about your experience, guys!

I worked as a pro translator for a week but never got paid because I never reached the minimum 50,000 points to cash out. Their policy to "pay with points" is a SCAM. Each translation request pays 4 points on average, so you need to complete 12,500 requests to reach the 50,000 points needed to cash out. However, the website doesn't have that amount of projects available, so translators aren't allowed to reach those 50,000 points and basically work for free.

Scam!Wouldn't advise any freelance translator to work with them

I should have trusted the online reviews, as it turned out to be a scam. First of all, they have a weird way of paying their contributors, as you need to "collect points" to spend on their store to buy paypal rewards... But the fact is, the points you collect are based on how many points they decide to award you after you've submitted the translation. I tried with one translation, which took me around 1 hour to complete, and after more than a month I've ben awarded with... 0 points! Right, basically I worked for free, and they DON'T tell you why you failed the task, you just see a generic "fail". I suspected it was going to end like this, so I didn't invest too much time on in.

They asked me to do a test for getting into the role, and asked my ID, then they never response me. I just hope this rude company will not use my ID to do something bad. PLESE BE CAREFUL.

They took all the work without paying for anything. They trap poor freelancers from 3rd world countries to get their work done and then they don't pay

Totally scam. They don't value your work and time. I only got paid once and a misery. They paid me only once at 0.01 USD per word, (nobody pays that and it is nonsense) that are the fees they handle and they put you lots of excuses for not paying because the terms and conditions are crazy, they will only pay you if the work you did meets their critería, doesn't matter your time and quality. It was a long and hard work and they only paid me 20 USD. Last time I did another job with the same fee, a really long and tiring work, they were supposed to pay me 38 USD on July 12th and they did not pay me, because although I did the job and it was well done, I said I quit because I didn't want to be a slave. The project took me a lot of time, they still owe me money, I know that they will not pay me. Don't work for them, they are scammers. They play with people's necessity, they are abusers, exploiters.

Being a native italian speaker I've been using the Flitto app last year to do translations and see if I could actually make some money. Result: "Too fast! You're clearly a bot so we'll be suspending your account for 2 weeks 😋". Complained to support since I believe I'm not a bot, and they seemed to be the bots to me since they did nothing but repeat their guidelines about not allowing bots. I redeemed my accumulated points (yes, you don't get actual money but "points", and when you want to convert them into money you'll have to pay a fee as well 🙂), pissed off I just left Flitto alone and moved on with my life. This year I get an email inviting me to a New Arcade project on the Flitto website. Again I tried to use it to see if the situation changed. For a few times it worked and I did my share of underpaid work, despite the interface making it extremely difficult for me. Of course I get a rejected assignment saying "we detected machine translation" so no money for that one. Since I kinda got tired of translating out of context sentences and being accused of being a bot or a machine I decided to apply for the Pro 1:1 translation. Boy was that a mistake. Banned again because they detected machine translation, now they dont even allow me to login and claim my payments. They provide screenshot of their funny monitoring program where they check what percentage of your translation is the same as other online automatic translators, and that's their excuse to ban me. First of all machine translations shouldn't be the enemy of a human translator, they should be a tool to speed up the process. The platform doesn't see it that way so it doesn't allow it, alright. The least they could do though is having the basic understanding that this isnt 15 years ago and my human translation is most likely gonna look similar to a machine translation since they evolved and got pretty accurate at providing optimal contextualized translations. The thing you have to focus on doing while translating for Flitto isn't to provide the best translation you can, it's actually the opposite. You have to make sure you use obscure and uncommon wording and synonyms just to make sure you pass their dumbass criteria. A machine telling a human to not be a machine, pretty hilarious. Flitto isn't something you use if you're a translator, it's something you're forced to use if you dont have a degree and can't access other translation gig websites. I don't recommend it to anyone who knows their worth.