FieldWorks Lite is a slimmed down companion application for FieldWorks projects that’s designed to be fast and easy to use.

It’s designed to be:
- Cross-platform: currently Windows, Android and Linux (Alpha) with iOS and Mac in progress
- Usable offline: no internet connection required
- Collaborative: watch live changes from other users
- History-aware: enabling you to view the complete history of every entry in your project
FieldWorks Lite is still in an early stage of development and only has a basic set of features.
We’d love your help making FieldWorks Lite better
You can share ideas, vote on features and get help on our community forum.
If you encounter a problem, please fill out our Report a problem form or send us an email at lexbox_support@groups.sil.org.
About the Beta Version
We anticipate issues to arise as FieldWorks Lite becomes more widely used. So, it is recommended to make a backup of your project before you start using it (if you use Send/Receive, your project is already backed up).
Windows
Minimum required version: Windows 10 (version 2004, build number 10.0.19041)
Linux
Android

Minimum Android version 8.0
Important Info
Important Info
- Make sure your data is backed up first if it’s important. If you use Lexbox S/R, then your data is already backed up and you’re good.
- The landing page should have a list of all your FW projects (right now it’s hard coded to list each folder in ‘C:\ProgramData\SIL\FieldWorks\Projects’), click the open button with the FW icon and it will open the editor on the page.
- When working with this editor all changes are saved automatically once you finish editing a field (once the text field loses focus)
- All entries created will have the Morph type of stem
- The FW project will be locked while using this tool, meaning you can’t open the project in FieldWorks while you have it open in FW Lite. There is a button to open an entry in FW, this will close the project in FW Lite, and launch FW using the link to entry feature in FW.
- To get a new project or S/R changes to a project, open FieldWorks and do it there.
- FW Lite supports editing Entry, Sense, and Example Sentences. Some things like Part of Speech and Semantic domains are supported on Sense. If you want to change the name of a part of speech or add a new one that must be done from within FieldWorks.
- 🚧 There are buttons to reorder senses and example sentences, however those changes don’t get saved right now.
- 🚧 Sorting of entries is by headword, we may consider adding other sort options in the future
- The little book button to the left of the filter bar shows a list of exemplar characters and will let you filter by those.
Report a Problem
🐛 Bug Reports
Send bug reports to lexbox_support@groups.sil.org with a screenshot and the logs which you can get below:
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