Crowdin

Keeping your software, websites, and content updated across multiple languages can often feel like a constant race against development cycles and content calendars. Coordinating translations, ensuring quality, and integrating localized content back into your products demands significant effort. Crowdin offers a central platform designed specifically to simplify and automate this entire process for your team, enabling you to reach global audiences faster and more efficiently. Think of it as the command center for making your products truly multilingual, integrating localization seamlessly right into your existing workflows.

Key Features

• 🤖 Leverage AI Translations: Access context-aware translations generated by leading AI providers directly within Crowdin. The AI learns from your project's Translation Memory and Glossary, improving accuracy over time. You can fine-tune prompts and use your preferred AI provider without any markup on their standard pricing.

• 🔄 Automate Continuous Localization: Set up workflows that automatically pull new content for translation as soon as it's created. Translators can work in parallel with your development or content creation, ensuring localized versions are ready almost simultaneously with your source content updates.

• 🔗 Integrate Seamlessly: Connect Crowdin to the tools your team already uses. With over 600 apps and integrations covering development (GitHub, GitLab, Azure Repos), design (Figma, Sketch), CMS (Contentful, WordPress), marketing (HubSpot, Marketo), support (Zendesk, Intercom), and more, you can eliminate manual copy-pasting and automate content synchronization.

• 🤝 Collaborate Effectively Online: Provide your translators and proofreaders with a powerful online Editor. Features like Translation Memory (TM), Glossaries, real-time preview, screenshot context, and quality assurance (QA) checks help linguists deliver accurate, high-quality translations efficiently.

• 📊 Manage Localization at Scale: Organize your localization efforts with customizable workflows, assign tasks with deadlines, and track progress with detailed reports. You have the flexibility to work with your internal team, invite external translators, source professionals from the Crowdin vendor marketplace, engage your community, or utilize machine translation – or any combination that suits your needs.

• 🔒 Ensure Enterprise-Grade Security: Protect your sensitive data with robust security measures. Crowdin offers features like SAML 2.0 SSO, SCIM for user provisioning, role-based permissions, two-factor authentication, audit logs, and complies with standards like GDPR, HIPAA, and ISO/IEC 27001.

Use Cases

1. Software Development Teams: Imagine your team uses GitLab. By integrating Crowdin, new feature strings added to a development branch are automatically pushed to Crowdin. Translators get notified and start working immediately, using the platform's context features. Once approved, the translations are automatically submitted back to GitLab as a merge request, ready for integration before the feature release. This keeps localization perfectly synchronized with your sprints.

2. Marketing Departments: Your team manages a website on Contentful and runs campaigns using HubSpot. With Crowdin, new blog posts, landing pages, or email templates created in your source language can be automatically sent for translation. Using the shared Glossary ensures brand terminology stays consistent across all languages. Translated content syncs back directly, allowing you to launch multilingual campaigns much faster.

3. Customer Support Operations: You need to offer help documentation in multiple languages using Zendesk Guide. Crowdin connects directly, pulling your English articles for translation. You might use Crowdin AI for a first pass to speed things up, then assign internal reviewers or a language vendor for proofreading. Updated translations are pushed back to Zendesk, ensuring your global customers always have access to the latest support information in their language.

Conclusion

Crowdin serves as a comprehensive localization management hub, designed to remove the friction from translating and maintaining multilingual content. By automating workflows, integrating with your essential tools, leveraging AI intelligently, and providing robust collaboration features, it empowers your development, marketing, and support teams to operate globally with greater speed and consistency. If you're looking to scale your localization efforts efficiently and keep pace with agile development, Crowdin provides the technology and flexibility you need.