LILTReviews of lilt.com

I am an experienced freelance translator, and I am writing this to warn the global linguistic community: Do not trust Lilt with your time or your labor. Over the last few years, this platform has rapidly deteriorated from a promising AI-assisted tool into an exploitative, faceless corporation that is actively erasing freelancer payment records. In the past, working with Lilt was already becoming difficult. On more than three separate occasions, I was completely shorted on my earned income simply because Project Managers (PMs) refused to respond to basic inquiries. It became obvious that their internal staff were under immense pressure to squeeze budgets as tightly as possible at the expense of human linguists. I let it go back then, but their recent actions have crossed the line from poor corporate ethics into outright financial fraud. A few months ago, Lilt migrated to a new payment model that can only be described as the worst epitome of hyper-capitalism. It is a digital sweatshop. Under this new system, I noticed that multiple completed payments went missing. To be absolutely clear: the money was not just delayed. The actual invoice records were completely wiped from their dashboard system. No more evidence of completed human labor. There is zero accountability because there are no longer any humans steering the ship. I have had a very minimum (to none) human contact with anyone at Lilt in the past months—not a PM, finance representative, or support staff member. Lilt has officially become a ghost ship. Their entire business model now relies on extracting as much money as possible from enterprise corporate clients while taking zero responsibility for freelancers' rights or the actual quality of localization. If you are a corporate buyer, know that your brand reputation is being trusted to a broken, automated system that exploits workers. If you are a freelancer, protect your sanity and stay far away. This isn't just a bad agency anymore; it is a nightmare. I'm losing around $1000 for the unpaid works. I hope some investors might realize that the money they earn comes from highly unethical practices.

Be wary of the reviews. Look at how organic they seem. They offered incentives to freelancers willing to leave reviews. This used to be one of my top five agencies, even 3–5 years ago. Now, it has become a villain. * **Payment issues:** You may or may not get paid. Chasing the help desk and hoping someone actually reads your concerns becomes part of the job . * **No project management:** You can send dozens of emails about an assignment and still get no response. * **Endless revisions:** Even after completing an assignment, you may be asked to make numerous unpaid revisions. * **Unreliable AI:** The output can be so poor that editing it takes longer than translating the document from scratch. * **Rock-bottom rates:** Experienced freelancers should stay away, while newcomers should think twice. It feels like they’re throwing pennies into a pond and making freelancers compete for $1 projects. My advice: don’t entertain these offers unless a PM contacts you directly, giving you room to negotiate rates and deadlines. I understand the need to keep costs low, but this is what happens when capitalism takes priority over ethics, fair treatment of freelancers, and the quality delivered to clients. Seriously, avoid this agency at all costs, whether as a freelancer or an employee. You risk being exploited—or being put in a position where you have to exploit others.

If I had seen the recent reviews before accepting assignments, I would have saved myself a lot of time and energy chasing down payments. 1. Low rates and poor MT quality. The project was presented as MTPE, but the machine-translated output was so poor that the actual editing workload was greater than what I would expect from a human translation. The low rate did not reflect the amount of work required. 2. Payment issues after completing the project. After completing the project, I had to spend a significant amount of time following up with the company about payment. The payment date has now passed, and the payment is still unresolved despite having submitted a payment support ticket and following up multiple times. Would not recommend taking on projects without first checking how current freelancers are being treated.

Scam alert, I completed work for LILT and my contributor account was suddenly and subsequently suspended. Before the suspension, I saw €260 displayed on my account as payable and they‘ve told us we‘ll get paid before the weekend on the 04.09.26 and this was their last message. I have contacted LILT repeatedly for several weeks regarding the payment but have not received any response.

Terrible Experience Worked for them on very stupid project with very tight guidelines and never get paid .They have the worst possible support and no one care . Please don't waste hours of your time working for this scam

This company owes me more than 500 dollars, and I doubt I’ll ever get paid. Lilt uses a 100 % automatic payment system, which leaves a lot to be desired! The fee the recipient pays per transaction is quite high, so in order to keep costs down I opted for the option of a threshold - i.e. payments are withheld until the sum total reaches a certain sum (for example 300 USD). The problem is that the automated system can't handle these requests apparently! This is what I was told when I finally got hold of someone who explained why I haven't received any money yet. When I first contacted the company to ask why my payment was overdue, the reply was simply "Our department can't handle that type of reqest, please reach out to a different department". When I then contacted that department, I received the same reply. Finally after several e-mails I found someone who told me that I would have to "create a ticket" to submit a request for "manual payment" but that this would most likely take a long time, because that department was "overwhelmed" with requests. This was a few weeks ago...

You grant a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free licence for LILT to clone your voice, create unlimited synthetic speech, and commercialise AI models built from your voice — forever, including after the contract ends. No way I would sign their agreement!

Worst experience ever. Worked on a project and never got paid- instead of I've been lied to weekly and told my payment has been processed now and will shortly reach me. That of course never happened. In total I waited almost 3 months and updated my formal complain at least 1x week, they never cared. But had the audacity to approach me with a new project!