# Aquilla

> Aquilla is an agentic translation system for mission-driven translation teams. Equip your team with AI agents that draft, back-translate, check, and remember, so your translators can get true leverage on their expertise while steering the project to completion.

- **Slug:** `aquilla`
- **Organization:** Frontier Research and Development
- **Website:** https://aquilla.app/bible-translation
- **HTML page:** https://www.tools.bible/tools/aquilla
- **Markdown page:** https://www.tools.bible/tools/aquilla.md

## Classification

- **Translation stages:** Biblical Content & Context, Drafting & Editing
- **Medium:** Written
- **Pricing:** Free (Unrestricted)
- **Release status:** Beta
- **Translation type:** Any
- **License:** Unknown

## Description

**The browser-based successor to the Codex Translation Editor (https://codexeditor.app)**

**What it is**

Open your source text in a browser and put agents to work on it. They draft in your project's voice, back-translate what they wrote so you can read it, check the work as it goes, and remember every decision you make. The AI adapts live to every decision you make, with no model training needed, so you're not stuck post-editing thousands of mistakes.

**The problems it solves**

Drafting and checking usually happen in separate phases, so quality gets inspected at the end and every handoff turns into a queue. Aquilla runs them together, so any input an expert linguist gives is propagated throughout the project. Need to change a key term? Make the decision once and let the AI implement your changes with you in the driver's seat.

Oversight is the harder bottleneck. A manager or consultant who doesn't read the target language can't tell what a draft says. Aquilla back-translates as it drafts, so someone outside the language can follow the work, question a rendering, and sign off on it.

Decisions also evaporate. A team settles a term in Matthew and re-fixes it in Mark. Aquilla's Living Memory holds each decision, so the next chapter already knows your terms, your register, and the choices you've made as a team.

**Text, audio, and video in one place**

Most of the world meets Scripture by listening. Record as you translate, generate a voice or clone one for consistency across a long project, transcribe and correct, and produce finished audio or subtitles, all without moving files between programs. The agents learn from your project rather than leaning on a general-purpose model, so they stay useful in as many languages as possible. Need multiple audio tracks? Aquilla's multimedia mode lets you mix and match audio and sync it with video and subtitles live.

**Fits what you already use**

Bring in your Paratext work and hand it back intact. Aquilla also takes in and gives back Word documents, print-ready files your typesetter can open, subtitle files, translation memories, and much more.

Every change keeps its history. You can see who touched a verse, when, and what it replaced, and undo it. Work continues when the internet drops and catches up when it returns. If your organization runs its own AI tools, they can work on an Aquilla project too, under permissions you set and the same human-approval gates.

**Proven in production**

Come and See used Aquilla (and its precursor, Codex Translation Editor) to win their second Guinness World Record for translation into the most languages (https://aquilla.app/case-studies/come-and-see). Biblica completed a full Bible translation in ten months (https://aquilla.app/case-studies/biblica).

Built for the All-Access Goals — Scripture for every language by 2033. Free for every translator, church, and team.

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