What Crowdin Does
Crowdin empowers teams to manage the localization process from start to finish, enabling them to deliver their products, websites, mobile apps, games, and documents in multiple languages. Founded in 2009, Crowdin has grown to support over 2 million registered users and hosts more than 150,000 localization projects.
Key Features and Functionality
User Management and Access Control
Crowdin allows you to invite users to your projects and define their access levels, such as manager, translator, or proofreader. You can also configure access for translators and proofreaders to specific target languages.
Translation and Localization Tools
- Tasks and Assignments: Create tasks, assign files to translators and proofreaders, and set due dates. Receive notifications about changes and updates in tasks.
- Machine Translations: Integrate with various machine translation engines like Google Translate, Microsoft Translator, and DeepL Translator to get quick translations.
- In-Context Visual Editor: Translate texts directly within an overlay of your web application, allowing translators to see the context in which the text will be used.
Reporting and Budgeting
- Basic and Advanced Reports: View activity within projects, including translations, approvals, and file updates. Calculate approximate and exact translation costs to plan and manage your budget.
Integrations and Automation
- VCS Integration: Sync translatable content from repositories like GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, and Azure Repos with your localization project.
- Design Tools Integration: Localize content from Figma, Sketch, and Adobe XD, with features like excluding non-translatable text and automatic key naming using element IDs.
- Development Tools Integration: Integrate with Visual Studio Code (VS Code) and Android Studio to send source files to Crowdin and pull translated content back.
Collaboration and Communication
- Messages: Send private or group messages directly within Crowdin.
- Webhooks: Collect information about key events in your Crowdin project, such as completed translations and proofreading.
Quality and Consistency
- Glossary: Create or upload a list of terms, their definitions, and approved translations to ensure consistency across your project.
- Screenshots and Context: Use screenshots to provide context for translators, especially useful in tools like Jira Software and the In-Context Visual Editor.
Security and Compliance
- Two-Factor Authentication: Require users to enable two-factor authentication for enhanced security.
- Security Log: Review user activity logs to monitor performed actions.
- Custom Domain Name: Share your project on your own URL.
Additional Features
- Crowdin Store: Order professional translations from translation agency vendors available in the Crowdin Store.
- Mobile SDK: Deliver new translations to your mobile application with over-the-air content delivery and real-time translation preview.
- CLI and API: Integrate Crowdin with your CI server, GIT, SVN, Mercurial, and more using the Crowdin CLI and API.
Crowdin’s comprehensive suite of features makes it a powerful tool for managing localization projects efficiently, ensuring that translations are done in parallel with development, and enabling teams to go global without the hassle of manual translation management.