Crowdin Reviews

Highly Recommend Crowdin for Translation Work

Comments: I highly recommend Crowdin for translation work. I have already recommended it to friends who are using it for their projects. Of all the translation tools I have used, it is my favorite.

Pros:

Crowdin is a fantastic platform that has made the translation process incredibly smooth. It's super easy to use, even for beginners, with a user-friendly interface that anyone can navigate. The website loads quickly, which is a huge plus when managing large projects. The machine translation feature provides helpful context based on work you have already done. Plus, the glossary feature ensures consistency across all translations, maintaining our high-quality standards.

Cons:

The overall project management on Crowdin could use some improvement. The dashboard process, in particular, needs refining. It would be great to have more intuitive and easy-to-understand dashboards that clearly show the amount of work completed over time. This enhancement would make tracking progress much more efficient and user-friendly.

Versatile tool that accommodates to your needs

Comments: Starting off as a translator, the Editor is very easy to use. Once I went about localising my own projects, I started using Crowdin without any doubts and this sped up the process significantly. The support team is amazing and the product is very versatile.

Pros:

When starting off with localising my projects, the support team reached out to see if they could accommodate to my needs. Some of my projects are open sourced, and Crowdin has special resources for projects like this. Everything was disclosed and handled very clearly, and there were no (unpleasant) surprises. I even managed to move a project to Crowdin Enterprise relatively easily once the project became too large to manage on Crowdin.com.

Cons:

It is sometimes a bit annoying that Crowdin Enterprise and Crowdin.com are each restricted and confusing to use in their own way. Crowdin Enterprise is not very friendly for translators. Crowdin.com doesn't offer all the management tools you'd like. It would be better if the two products fused together into one great product.

Alternatives Considered: Transifex, Localazy and POEditor

Reasons for Switching to Crowdin: It was the most versatile and it offered special accommodations for small open source projects on one side and huge closed source projects on the other side.

Lacking Crucial Features

Pros:

The interface is well designed and the task feature is extremely time saving.

Cons:

Why are TM matches vs string history vs MT suggestions in the same spot and not easily distinguished? It makes translation difficult for all parties. From an LSP partner perspective, it does not make sense to use CrowdIn. The security access controls are not present. So unless your organization is purely crowd-sourcing, the ability to comply with ISO and other standards is near impossible. But also the key concept of having multiple linguists work on a project at the same time without the ability to cross over into each other's content is missing.

Great localization product

Pros:

Crowdin has been a huge help for our localization projects. Our Localization manager and all translaters are using this tool on daily basis with ease and without any complaints. The user experience is great as well as the customer experience . The implementation of the tool was a breeze and I can recommend this tool to everyone.

Cons:

I am happy to note that nothing comes to mind at the moment to dislike about Crowdin.

Best in class for crowd translations!

Comments: Crowdin is a high quality product with many good and helpful features. We used it in a former project as crowd translation tool for our app and it worked very well. At the moment our main project only has very basic requirements and we don't need many features anymore.

Pros:

1. It's easy to invite colleagues, customers and professional translaters to translate content. 2. Using the crowdin cli tool to upload and update translations in our code base. 3. Create branches which reflect code branches.

Cons:

Over the years and the additional features crowdin got more and more expensive although we have a very basic workflow: 1 private translator, just translation of every string in 1-2 languages, upload and download per cli tool. Currently we are thinking about not using Crowdin anymore - although we like Crowdin very much.

A complete service for your app

Comments: I really enjoy working with it so far and I have only a few complains

Pros:

Crowdin was simple to setup, the UI is very simple and it has a lot of feature. Support always been here via chat when I needed some help. There are a few issue sometimes but overall it's a very complete, robust and useful tool for i18n in our web app

Cons:

It is a bit hard to understand some complex flow and correct implementation with Crowdin. Like it would be very helpful to have some better documentation and explanation of the flow suggested by crowdin.

Alternatives Considered: Phrase Localization Platform

Reasons for Choosing Crowdin: pricing, UI and simplicity where better on crowdin

Switched From: Locize

Reasons for Switching to Crowdin: Missing feature on Phrase that were available on crowdin out of the box.

Crowdin review

Comments: In general, I like it and planning to continue using it.

Pros:

UI for managing projects and perform translations/proofreading is very good. Activity section is also very useful.

Cons:

As of purchasing translation UI - it's not always intuitive and can be improved.

Cost efficient product

Comments: The overall experience with Crowdin is good.

Pros:

Crowdin provides the most capabilities on the market while being a very reasonably priced SaaS.

Cons:

Many apps are of low quality and constantly have issues, customer support is helpful, however is not going over the board to solve the issue. Developer seats should not be priced as manager seats.

Alternatives Considered: Phrase Localization Platform and Lokalise

Reasons for Switching to Crowdin: The product fulfilled almost all requirements of RFC.

One of the best translation tools

Comments: I'm translator of an open-source project and I also propose, implement and use this tool in multiple companies I work for.

Pros:

All my translators can work with this tool without asking many questions. Support for many formats.

Cons:

Sometimes slower UI for larger projects.

Localization God!

Pros:

I love the ease of use, as well as the user interface.

Cons:

There isn't much I dislike about crowdin.

Crowdin is probably the best service for product localisation

Comments: I have worked with Crowdin from several angles, both as a translator and as a project administrator.

Pros:

For me, Crowdin is the most convenient service for product localization. I have never needed any more functionality, everything I needed for my work is already available in this service.

Cons:

I like everything about this product. I don't have any comments.

Alternatives Considered: Transifex

Reasons for Switching to Crowdin: User-friendly interface and rich functionality.

Great for our purpose

Comments: Very useful to collate multiple language translations for the same English text. Excellent customer service; responses are very quick, proficient and provide answers to any issues you raise.

Pros:

Easy to add in new requests for translations, like adding screenshots and tagging scripts. Can see the progress of each translated language. Can use the completed translations to directly upload into out platform when relevant (to our system).

Cons:

Messaging facility to translators could be improved so there is an easier way to communicate, how to understand what the translators see, would be good to get notified when a translation is completed. A way to download a complete and easy to use file of all translations for a task.

My short review

Pros:

Easy to use, good UI, good features that streamline translation and communication

Cons:

I don't have any problems with it. It's one of my favorite cat tools.

From Maciej

Comments: No business, I am a volunteer working for education our children!

Pros:

Very helphul system in translating very large amount of strings like in code.org.

Cons:

I wrote that I get some strings which make my work more time consuming that it should be.

Feedback from Sundar

Comments: My overall experience with Crowdin is very good, as I have gained knowledge in Tamil Grammar, which Amazon, Bing and Google never teach. It is the only platform which teaches grammar in Tamil while translating (when there is a grammar mistake. It tells exactly just like Tamil Pandit.

Pros:

I improved my translation becoz I have learned a lot fro Crowdin particularly in Grammar and Spell Check.Crowdin is a great platform for those who wants to keep the translation services as their career, that too free of cost. The more assignments you do the more refined your translation.

Cons:

Once in a while, the translator who does the review free of cost, crowdin should send a note appreciating the time spent by them. I never have received any such mail, except this one.

Great Collaboration Tool for Translators

Pros:

Crowdin sends email messages with links that take me directly to the new strings needing translated. It’s very easy to communicate and collaborate with the team if I have questions or notes for them.

Cons:

As an end user, I would like to be able to find recent strings I reviewed. Once I’ve translated a group of strings and delete the email with the link, I can never find that group of strings again (unless someone comments and I get another email). Perhaps a dashboard section could be added that has links to the most recent strings reviewed.

One of the most efficient translation tool

Comments: I'm pretty happy with Crowdin. Although the free plan is a bit limited, the platform is well-thought-out and works very well. It allows you to be efficient without too much configuration, whether you're an individual or a large company.

Pros:

An efficient, community-friendly tool that allows any team to get helped to translate any projects. The UI is great and efficient !

Cons:

The cost might be high, and the free plan is very limited. Some documentation is missing on some points, such as integrations

Crowdin easy to used for translating project

Comments: I used crowdin first in 2023 for help to translate my friend project and i love this cuz so easy to used

Pros:

I like to translate so crowdin help me to translated my friends project so easy

Cons:

Easy to used for translating project from github

Great translation platform

Pros:

I like that i can help others to translate their opensource projects.

Cons:

I really dont have any bad experiences with crowdin.

Amazing Customer Support

Pros:

The customer support is amazing and the product team always listens to the product improvement feedback. They already implemented some of our feature based suggestions.

Cons:

Some limitations related to the task creations and glossary.

One of the best platforms for translating or managing translations for your project.

Pros:

The spell check feature is amazing. As a translator I sometimes get corrected in things I didn't even have a grammatical clue.

Cons:

The interface is kind of overwhelming with all the available tools everywhere but it's a matter of time to get used to it.

Incredibly versatile, always ready to go

Pros:

Crowdin is, by far, my favorite CAT platform. It's fast, reliable and it still amazes me how well it adapts from a 27 inch screen PC with a wired Internet connection to a smartphone using a data plan when riding a train. It just works.

Cons:

The one feature I would like to see is user-controlled auto propagation for repeated strings. I still have to do it manually, and it can take quite some time depending on the project.

Awesome tool to translate your projects

Pros:

Easy to use, allows a community driven translation of my projects

Cons:

No Open Source / Self hosted Option available

Awesome for open source!

Pros:

The free plan for open source is extremely helpful. The system is pretty easy to setup and use. We have multiple volunteers that joined to help in the translation.

Cons:

There is nothing that I dislike about Crowdin.

Can experience the satisfactory and user friendly working environment

Comments: More prompt response against the client's feedback is possible.

Pros:

Product is is to use and M/T support function is useful.

Cons:

After importing the file which has been performed with other tool, there is no function to import it with confirmation.