Crowdin


Crowdin is a proprietary, cloud-based localization technology and services company. Offered as a software as a service for commercial products and free of charge for non-commercial open source projects and educational projects.

History

The company was founded in 2008 by Serhiy Dmytryshyn as a hobby project for localization of small projects. The platform was officially launched in January 2009. Since then it was adopted among software and game development companies, for software translation.

Translation mechanics

The tool has an Online Translation Editor, where texts can be translated and proofread by linguists. Translation strategies: in-house translation team, crowdsourcing, translation agency. Crowdin has a marketplace with translation agencies: Inlingo, Alconost, Applingua, Babble-on, Gengo, Tomedes, Translated, Translate by Humans, WritePath, Farsi Translation Services, Bureau Translations, e2f, Web-lingo, Leanlane, and Acclaro.
Crowdin has integrated machine translation into the translation workflow. Currently supports the following MT systems: Microsoft Translator, Yandex.Translate, Google Translate, Amazon Translate, Watson Translator, DeepL Translator. Machine translations can be post-edited.

In-Context

The company has an in-context tool for live translations.

API and integrations

Crowdin integrates with several tools: GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Jira, Android Studio, Google Play, other.

Notable users

Among the companies using Crowdin are GitLab, Xiaomi, XDAdevelopers, Raspberry Pi Foundation, iFixit, JetBrains, Reddit, Uridu, Be My Eyes, Khan Academy, Maxthon, Ask.fm, PrestaShop, Joomla, Wrike, Kickstarter, Deutsche Welle, and more. Users include tech companies, localization managers, translation agencies, and translators.