App Store Manager Documentation
  • Documents
    • First steps
      • Overview
      • How to work with the App Store Manager?
      • Common Obstacles
    • Access
      • App Store Connect access
      • Google Play Console access
      • Manage credentials
      • Team Management
        • Permissions
        • Locking/unlocking
    • Edit, translate and upload
      • Supported languages
      • Upload metadata
      • Screenshot and asset upload
      • Automatic translation
    • Import and export
      • Import from store
      • Import from file
      • File import and export
      • Export to file
    • Release Notes Creation
      • Android Release Notes creation
    • Phrase and Lokalise
      • Typical use cases
      • Export Phrase translations to the Stores
      • Import App Store Metadata to Phrase
      • Import App Store Metadata to Lokalise
    • Account and Subscriptions
      • User account
      • Subscriptions
  • Video tutorials
    • How to create API access to Google Play Console
    • How to grant API key access to Apple App Store Connect
    • How to upload my app descriptions
    • How to create Android Release Notes
    • Team Management
  • FAQ
    • Android
      • How to create API access to Google Play Console
      • What if my app is not in a production state?
      • But the Google Play Console offers a translation!
    • iOS
      • How to grant API key access to Apple App Store Connect
      • Are updates working if my app is in a ready “READY FOR SALE” state?
      • Are multiple teams for my Apple account supported?
      • Is two-factor-authentication supported?
      • Updating promotion texts
    • General
      • App Store Manager questions
        • Which stores are supported?
        • What do you mean by “managing” app descriptions?
        • How to use the App Store Manager?
        • Who uses the App Store Manager?
        • Parallel usage of the App Store Manager
      • Translations & languages
        • What is the difference between Google Translate?
        • How good are your translations?
        • What is the source language?
      • Store handling and upload
        • What about the store policies?
        • How to upload my app descriptions?
        • How long should my texts be?
        • Is my store metadata overwritten when I hit save?
        • Ampersand “&” within the automatic translation
        • What if an error occurs?
        • How to set up my store credentials/ login?
        • Which app information do I have to provide?
  • App Store Manager
    • Changelog
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Import App Store Metadata to Lokalise

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To import data from an existing App Store Connect or Google Play listing into , follow these steps:

  • Create the app in the App Store Manager

  • Create a new package

  • Start the import from store mechanism

  • Transfer the imported metadata to the App Store Manager

  • Export the metadata to an Excel file

  • Create a new project in Lokalise

  • Import the file into Lokalise

App Store Manager setup

Create a new app in the App Store Manager via search (if already published) or manually enter the app information.

Open the app you just created and create a new package.

Assign a suitable name and then switch to edit the app description.

Select the "Import/Import from Playstore" (Android) or "Import/Import from App Store" (Apple) function in the upper right corner.

Enter the appropriate permissions. The setup of the permissions for the respective store.

Start importing the metadata from the store and wait for it to finish.

Once the process is completed, click "OK" and add all metadata to your package in the following dialog.

With this, we have imported all the existing metadata of an existing app into the App Store Manager. Now we can easily export the metadata to create it in Lokalise and import it again.

Export metadata to file

Select the function "Export/ Export as XSLT" and save the metadata in an Excel file locally.

The generated file contains all maintained languages and keys (titles, descriptions, and so on).

Lokalise setup

Now switch to Localise and create a new project there. Assign a name and choose an initial target language.

Create the project and then switch to the "Upload" tab.

Import to Lokalise

Select the Excel file you created in the App Store Manager in the upload tab.

Localise directly shows all recognized languages and keys/values in it.

Hit "Apply" and then "Import files."

Lokalise then starts to import the information accordingly and displays all keys and languages in the editor view.

The two languages selected during the Lokalise project creation can be removed, as these are usually empty (provided no further adjustments have been made).

This completes the export of the app metadata from the respective store and the import into Lokalise.

Summary

When the editing is complete, the adapted translated metadata can be easily and quickly published in the stores again using Lokalise export, App Store Manager import, and upload.

You can find tutorials here: and .

With a few steps, you can import app metadata from App Store Connect and Google Play Console into using App Store Manager.

In , the corresponding texts can be further edited using collaborative tools.

Google Play Console
App Store Connect
Lokalise
Lokalise
Lokalise
Create a new app
Create a new app package
Name the package
Import from store function
Select imported metadata
Export metadate to file
App Store metadata Excel export
Lokalise project setup
Upload tab in Lokalise
Import preview
Imported app store metadata