Crowdin

error_outline Main Info

Deployment model	Private cloud donePublic Cloud

add_circle_outline Additional functionality

power Integrations

API	doneREST
Public Machine translation	Google Microsoft Yandex
Term/Memory banks	Mymemory
Online repositories (hotfolder integrations)	Amazon S3 Microsoft Live doneOneDrive for Business
Web & Software	Android Studio Bitbucket doneContentstack Drupal Git Github Gitlab Google Play doneGoogle Sheets doneGrunt doneJenkins Jira Joomla Kentico Magento MediaWiki doneMicrosoft Excel 365 Oracle Web Center SalesForce Commerce Cloud (Demandware) Sitecore Typo3 Umbraco Weebly Wordpress
Technical documentation	Akeneo Open Source PIM Paligo doneSalesForce Knowledge
Supported file formats	done.NET localization formats (.resx .resw) doneAdobe FrameMaker (.mif) doneAdobe InDesign (.idml .indb) doneAndroid apps (.xml) doneDigia QT (.ts) doneExcel (.xls .xlsx) doneINI Files (.ini .conf .cfg) doneiOS apps (.strings) doneJava property files (.properties) doneJavaScript (.json) doneMicrosoft Office (.doc .docx .xls .xlsx .xlsm .ppt .pptx) doneMicrosoft Visual Studio & C++ resource files (.rc) doneMultilingual website GetText Portable object (.po .pot) doneMultilingual XML formats (.xml) doneOpenOffice (.sxw .odt .ods .odp) donePHP doneSalesForce (.stf) doneSubRip text (srt) doneTypo3 website pages (.xml) doneWeb pages (.html .htm .xhtml .xht .shtml .shtm) doneXLIFF (.xlf) doneYAML language (.yml .yaml)
Translation Providers	doneGengo doneOneHourTranslation doneTranslated.net
Support Integrations	Desk.com Freshdesk Help Scout Salesforce Service Cloud Zendesk
Other Integrations	Adobe InDesign doneAsana doneIntento doneShopify doneTrello Vimeo doneXbench Youtube

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info_outline About

Crowdin is a feature-rich localization management platform for software developers. It comes with a comparatively lower price tag than most competitors with a similar feature set.

Features

1. Translation Editor with TM, Glossary, integrated MT (Microsoft Translator, Yandex.Translate, Google Translate) and QA checks.
   
2. In-context overlay for web page translation.
   
3. Proofreading view in the Editor.
   
4. Voting mechanics for crowdsourced translations.
   
5. Project management suite with a workflow builder.
   
6. RESTful API.
   
7. Preconfigured connectors.
   
8. Project management dashboards, reporting, and tasks.
   
9. Integrated 3-d party translation service providers.
   
10. Integrations with CMS and code repositories (GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Jira, Desk.com, Zendesk, Freshdesk, Android Studio, Google Play).

 

Best suited for

1. In-house software localization teams in search of an affordable solution
2. Crowdsourcing / working with a huge pool of users

Launched by Sergey Dmytryshyn in Ternopil, Ukraine, in 2009 Crowdin was designed originally as a localization crowdsourcing platform. A few localization managers adopted it for their products following a post from a translation industry pundit, most notably, it has been used to localize a popular video game Minecraft into multiple languages at minimal cost. Same with a different popular game Plague, Inc from another developer, and finally, e-learning platform Khan Academy used Crowdin.

Crowdin became popular and even hip with the developer community. It quickly grew in the number of registered accounts, because it was possible to send links for localization over social media. In 2017 the service hit over 1 million registered accounts. The team gradually expanded Crowdin’s functionality into a fully-fledged management system with more features and more file format support, targeting product owners and developers rather than translation industry professionals.

The company currently employs more than 40 people.

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local_atm Pricing

Translator Pricing

Free

Team Pricing

Pricing for annual plans varies from $192 to $4500 per year. The cost is based on the number of translation units (source strings and projects), as well as access to features. Users and target words are not limited.

Features restricted to higher tariff plans include GitHub, Bitbucket and GitLab integrations, unlimited API usage, In-Context editing, version branch translation, QA checks, etc.

g_translate Translator workbench

Editor functionality	doneConcordance search doneCustomizable keyboard shortcuts doneMultiple segment filtering optionshelp_outline doneSearch and replace doneSource text editinghelp_outline doneSupports right-to-left languages
Translation Editor OS support	doneWeb editor
Productivity	doneAutomated locking of non-translatables (tags & numbers)help_outline doneCentralized & real-time translation memory doneMachine translation integrated doneShared Public TM
Quality	doneAutomated quality assurance (AutoQA) doneQA check customizationhelp_outline doneVoting for the best translationhelp_outline
Context	doneControl over the length of the target segmenthelp_outline donePreview for HTML donePreview for XML doneSegments can link to screenshots and reference materials
Terminology	doneLive suggestions from term base doneMultilingual termshelp_outline doneQA check for consistency doneTerm descriptions & images
Collaboration	doneBuilt-in instant messaging chat doneComments for segments doneMulti-user simultaneous work on a single jobhelp_outline doneTracked changes

record_voice_over PM workbench

Access (PM)	doneWeb app
Projects	doneAutomated project creation and resource allocation doneDocument version historyhelp_outline doneJob analysis and price calculation based on TM & MT doneOverdue job notifications doneProject status and issues dashboardshelp_outline doneSplitting one project between several linguists doneTask manager for an in-house team doneVendor price lists and cost analyticshelp_outline
Workflows	doneSource change detectionhelp_outline doneWorkflow builder doneWorkflows can launch from an API call
Vendor management	doneVendor profiles doneVendors can log in to review past & available work
Customer portal	doneWhitelabelling and branding
Security	doneRoles and access rights editor doneUser activity logs