--- title: "Crowdin Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra" description: "Is Crowdin the right Translation Management solution for you? Explore 190 verified user reviews from people in industries like yours to make a confident choice." source_url: "https://www.capterra.com/p/163509/Crowdin/reviews/" page_type: "reviews" language: "en" --- Crowdin 4.7 (190) Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. [Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated September 11th, 2026 # Reviews of Crowdin Ease of use 4.7 Customer Service 4.7 ## Pros and Cons in Reviews IE Iago E Volunteer TranslatorComputer Games, 10,001+ employeesUsed the software for: 1-2 years. “The platform balances functionality and accessibility very well: the learning curve is short, the user interface is clean and responsive, and the file management system makes collaboration seamless. Although I have noticed occasional performance issues with larger projects, they don’t affect the overall reliability of the tool.“ October 15, 2025 TM Toni M Head of Customer ExperienceElectrical/Electronic Manufacturing, 51 - 200 employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “All the eco-system around the core product, like AI translations (that never work), Context pages, all unnecessary at least for my use case.“ March 30, 2026 JB José B Software EngineerComputer Games, Self-employedUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “In this position, you're often faced with the challenge of introducing your user base and collaborators to the platform where they will be handling translations, and I can assure you that Crowdin has been by far the easiest and most intuitive space for regular users, who may not have any background whatsoever in localisation, to contribute their grain of sand towards translating a project.“ March 2, 2026 VC Victor C Volunteer TranslatorComputer Games, 51 - 200 employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “Sometimes, (unexperienced) users will flood strings with very poor translations that visually pollute the editor, or send a series of useless comments as problems to be solved, and then the proofreaders will have to repeatedly solve the problems and delete the suggestions, or just have to ignore them.“ September 30, 2025 IE Iago E Volunteer TranslatorComputer Games, 10,001+ employeesUsed the software for: 1-2 years. “The text and file management tools are very efficient, making it easy to handle large translation projects, and I also appreciate the collaborative features that help maintain consistency across the team.“ October 15, 2025 JB José B Software EngineerComputer Games, Self-employedUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “Now imagine how it looks for new contributors who see the project page for the first time and see a bunch of grey flags with random letters all over them...“ March 2, 2026 Andrea C Global Account DirectorComputer Software, 51 - 200 employeesUsed the software for: I used a free trial. “Crowdin offers a robust, user-friendly localization platform that makes managing multilingual content much easier for teams working across regions.“ October 27, 2025 MA Manisha A Freelance TranslationIndividual & Family Services, 2 - 10 employeesUsed the software for: 1-2 years. “Learning Curve: I have not seen relearning curve in the system which has not available for future needs.“ March 20, 2026 ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 1-25 of 190 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use Olav M. Freelance Translator Translation and Localization Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Fast and social translation environment" July 23, 2026 5.0 Great place to discover projects needing help in my native language. It also gives ability to ask from fellow workers in other language pairs. Pros By clicking on the file needing translation on email, I am being redirected to the file in the Crowdin environment after being logged-in. This makes starting the translation faster than via software as all translation memories and termbases are preloaded instead needing to do it manually. Cons Log-in is cookie-based, not IP/router/device based. Using Incognito mode in browser for log-in always requires to insert a security code. Review Source JB Joanne B. Director of Product Content Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "A day in the life of Crowdin" April 20, 2026 4.0 For our organization's needs, Crowdin offers a relatively simple translation management software. As the manager The automation between Github ensures new source (in our case, English) text flows into Crowdin. I like being able to view Activity as a manager of the content team, and also to keep an eye on our external translators. The translation memory saves us a lot of time (and sometimes money). It's getting better and better, but I feel it needs some UI love Pros Great value for money. I like that there are lots of integrations. Fast customer service in terms of requesting help - support team are quick and provide articles and step by steps in rea time. Cons I don't find the user interface very intuitive. I often have to read an article or google something to find it. Lacking an overall visibility of activity (for example, new strings added) at a high level without going into each individual project. Loading time in larger project is very slow, particularly when viewing more than one language at a time. I find it disappointing that I cannot add a style guideline without increasing to the Enterprise account. I consider that this should be available on any plan, particularly when we are now using so many AI assisted translations, Alternatives considered [Lokalise](https://www.capterra.com/p/162858/Lokalise/) Reason for choosing Crowdin Crowdin offered a more competitive price and scaled to the small business needs (at that time we were a startup). Review Source VR Verified Reviewer IT Support Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Easy to Use and Great for Team Collaboration" July 21, 2026 4.0 Overall, my experience with Crowdin has been positive. It is a reliable platform for managing translations and collaborating with team members. It has helped make localization projects more organized and efficient, although there is a small learning curve for some of the advanced features. Pros What I liked most about Crowdin was how easy it made the localization process. The interface is intuitive, collaboration between team members is smooth, and managing translations across multiple languages is straightforward. It helped save time and kept everything organized, making it much easier to work on multilingual projects. Cons What I liked least about Crowdin was that some advanced features took a while to learn. Also, the interface can feel a bit overwhelming at first, especially for new users. Once you get used to it, though, it becomes much easier to navigate. Review Source TM Toni M. Head of Customer Experience Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Solid crowd-translation site " March 30, 2026 3.0 I'm a translator for Lichess and I'm using Crowdin since almost ten years or so. While I like to help to contribute to an open source chess site, all the other systems and functions of Crowdin like Tasks, TM,MT, Glossaries are a waste of time. Pros I like the most the automatic mail notifications when new translations are available. This way I never miss any new translations. Cons All the eco-system around the core product, like AI translations (that never work), Context pages, all unnecessary at least for my use case. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Translator Translation and Localization Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Great tool for multi-language team collaboration" July 30, 2026 5.0 Overall, it’s a robust and dependable platform that easily covers all essential localization needs. It makes collaboration straightforward and significantly simplifies managing large-scale projects. Pros Smooth team collaboration across international teams, an intuitive UI, and strong automation features like TM/Glossary integration. Cons Search and filtering within previous translations and TM assets can sometimes feel clunky or sluggish on larger projects. Review Source YA Yannis A. Product Manager Entertainment Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Best of its class, and likely set to remain so for the future" August 16, 2026 5.0 I reviewed Crowdin a few years ago and said we could have also gone with Weblate, but had no particular reason to move. After the multilingual view was introduced and Crowdin continuing to enhance their frontend design, our ability to let experts QA translations (especially in Portuguese) is far better. Competitors are also not close in terms of their scale and scope, especially when it comes to services like ours which crowdsource translations. While we do not use them by choice, preferring for machine/AI translations to be a starting point for human translators, there has been a major focus on these for several years at Crowdin. I understand if that's what the market expects but I hope they can continue to work on the human interface, which has been relatively sidelined; most of their regular updates have one or two items related to that, and many more related to AI. It is still the best in class by far as mentioned and I would easily recommend it for other software vendors looking to get their users to translate. Pros Most importantly, Crowdin has a very friendly and intuitive UI that is welcoming for volunteer-powered translations like ours. It's easy for non-technical translators to get started, while meeting our guardrails. For example, HTML codes are highlighted while translating and Crowdin's user interface steers people to copy them in, will display errors if you try to save translations without them, and so on. You can configure it to let people override this or not, as an extra bonus. The management tools are sufficient for our needs, and it comes with various forms of machine translations. importantly along with a global translation memory out of the box, which we find to be especially high-value for our use case (translating software user interface). The management tools are also effective, with a thoughtful but well-designed set of permissions. There are also good tools for removing people's contributions if necessary (to address errors or malice). Since we started using it, Crowdin has also introduced the "Developer" permission which now completes the lot for us. We don't need anything beyond these defaults. I can say that despite our free-for-all contribution model, we have never had a single instance of spam after 9 years and 3000+ members. Crowdin supports many formats and while there is a plethora of these in software, there is enough support that software developers can easily align a translation format to something Crowdin will accept. A few years ago, they introduced a multilingual view which is a great boon for variations of one language. A common scenario for that is comparing between Portuguese of Brazil & Portuguese of Portugal. Cons The management tools could be better for projects like ours with a free-for-all contribution model, where translators can just join and contribute. The QA tools are thoroughly but not as well-integrated as they could be. For example, there is the "Reports" section but also "Advisors". I personally like the simpler "Advisors" view as it's actionable, but it could be more fleshed out. It also has issues, for example I believe the Screenshots advisory is broken. I get "Low screenshot coverage" on our project saying "0% of UI strings tagged on screenshots. We have 100s of screenshots and 1000s of strings tagged across them from a quick glance at the "Screenshots" tab. I found CSV translation quite difficult to manage with errors about the file scheme we struggled to make sense of (when importing with some existing translations). Better documentation would help. I think the "File context" and especially "Dictionary" could be exposed in better ways on the translation UI. Currently, words are underlined even if there is no language translation or context added for that word in your language. What often happens is that e.g. the French translator will add a word to the dictionary and put a translation for that word, as an advisory and form of quality control for that translation. However, the primary term (i.e. generic concept) in the source English text, will usually be just the word itself. This word will be underlined for every single language, even though it will show them nothing of consequence. So I have found that translators don't use the built-in glossary (i.e. dictionary feature), because so many words are underlined (from being added for other languages over the years) that it becomes like The Boy Who Cried Wolf. Finally, the GitHub integration works in somewhat mysterious ways, with the token suddenly expiring from time to time in ways we do not fully understand. It would be great if Crowdin could offer idempotent detail on how this works in their documentation, so we can understand how it works with downstream systems. One thing we have never understood is which contexts (added via Crowdin) end up in our side on the Git repository. Review Source FF Francisco F. Proofreader and Translator Design Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Crowdin Appreciation Review" May 26, 2026 5.0 I've been using Crowdin since 2017 and with every year I feel the product gets more and more complete, in a sense that each new feature enhances my workflow with the translation process. Thank you for all the work your team so far :) Pros Overall the whole shortcuts experience and the way to easily move and translate a great batch of strings with just the keyboard. It's extremely fluid and got me to translate full projects in time just for the fact that I can fully use the keyboard alone. The less I use the mouse around to navigate, the better Cons Maybe just some UI changes that occasionally happened inside the translation editor without an explanation, but after a while they are easy to learn overtime. Review Source HY Hirotaka Y. Vounteer Translator Translation and Localization Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Smooth Editor with Great TM/MT Features" August 12, 2026 5.0 Crowdin offers an intuitive, comfortable editor where integrated Translation Memory and Machine Translation suggestions make drafting fast, consistent, and effortless. While standard QA checks can occasionally produce minor noise for Japanese syntax and punctuation, this is easily managed (just ignoring them). Introducing CJK-specific QA presets would be a welcome touch to streamline daily proofreading even further. Pros I like the suggestions based on translation memory and machine translation. Having direct access to TM matches and MT engines inside the editor speeds up my work and helps keep translations consistent across projects. Cons The automated QA checks are sometimes relevant for English, but not for Japanese. Because standard rules flag false positives for Japanese syntax and punctuation, dismissing the warnings adds unnecessary noise to the proofreading process. Review Source ZLT Zaw Lynn T. Translator Translation and Localization Used the software for: 2+ years ### "My Go-To Translation Platform for Seamless Localization Projects" August 12, 2026 4.0 Translating on Crowdin has been a smooth experience overall. It makes collaborating with project managers straightforward, and the secure platform gives me peace of mind when working on confidential client materials. Whether I am translating UI strings, software docs, or marketing articles, Crowdin offers great efficiency and value. Pros As a freelance translator, I love Crowdin’s intuitive editor and user interface. The built-in translation memory, glossaries, and context screenshots make my translation workflow much faster and more accurate. It offers excellent language support and handles complex files easily without messing up tags or code. Cons There is a slight learning curve when first navigating complex project settings or handling advanced QA checks. Some of the automated suggestions can occasionally be repetitive, requiring manual fine-tuning. Review Source GS Guillermo S. lead developer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "A great user experience " July 30, 2026 5.0 My overall experience is great. Crowdin has allowed me to perform translation for big apps into my native language in a way that feels too easy. Pros The interface and its ease of use are a huge plus. It allows to jump right into translation and I've helped translate some big projects with thousands of strings that I honestly wouldn't have touched otherwise. Cons Not much to dislike about the platform, some suggested translations could be a little better but in all honesty, that may be some particular cases about the target language and not related to the translator. Review Source RV Radek V. Frontend developer Financial Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Good community first system " March 11, 2026 4.0 Good community driven system to translate a service/software. You can pick desired languages and let volunteers from community to fill in missing translations. Pros Good user interface inside dictionary editor. You can also document each translation term with description and even image, so any translator that then do or review the translation have a good context. Cons If you want instant translation of you app - you can order it (even from different providers). The price of paid translations from professionals is quite steep. Review Source LG LeAnn G. Consultant Management Consulting Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Organize Large User Base" October 6, 2025 5.0 Mobile interaction aside, Crowdin is a great package for keep software projects with large user bases organized. Pros Crowdin is great for organizing contributing users for big projects, like app translations. You can easily change a user’s role quickly. The notifications and user interface also allow for quick review and response to user questions. Cons However, there is no mobile app nor is the website designed for mobile. I most often use Crowdin on my mobile phone. So, at times, I have to zoom in and out, which detracts from Crowdin’s ease of use. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Translator Translation and Localization Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Reliable CAT tool!" September 30, 2025 5.0 the overall experience with Crowdin is highly positive for organizations that prioritize automation, integration with a development pipeline, and sophisticated translation tools... Pros the strong combination of automation via integrations, powerful contextual translation tools (In-Context Editor, screenshots), and increasingly sophisticated AI capabilities... Cons the most common areas of dissatisfaction vary around the complexity of the user interface (especially for non-technical users), and the occasional glitchiness or unexpected behavior in the import/export or synchronization processes. Review Source Andrea C. Global Account Director Computer Software Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "Strong Partner, Reliable Localization Platform" October 27, 2025 5.0 Crowdin is a strong choice for organizations looking for a modern, scalable localization solution and a company that values long-term collaboration. Pros At Paligo, we work with Crowdin as a trusted partner, and our collaboration has been consistently positive. Crowdin offers a robust, user-friendly localization platform that makes managing multilingual content much easier for teams working across regions. Their focus on integration, automation, and developer-friendly tools aligns well with how we approach structured content and translation workflows at Paligo. The team at Crowdin is responsive, professional, and forward-thinking, and their platform is well-regarded by our shared customers for its scalability and ease of use. Cons Nothing significant to point out—our partnership experience has been very smooth. We appreciate working with the team at Crowdin. Review Source AV Aarjav V. User Online Media Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Aarjav's Review" September 29, 2025 5.0 Oveerall, crowdin is great, there are no problems once you learn how to use the interface properly.. Pros I liked contributing to other people's projects, and it is very easy to do. I like that about crowdin. Cons I do not love crowdin's interface. It works, and you can learn it, but it has a steep learning curve. Review Source TF Tomáš F. CFO Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Great localization product" November 9, 2024 5.0 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. Review Source LG Lisa G. Director of Localization Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Crowdin is a great value for large scale crowdsourced project" August 24, 2022 5.0 Overall our experience with Crowdin has been great, their customer service team is very friendly and helpful! Our translators enjoy using it and the only complaints I've heard have been occassional speed issues, but we're not sure if that was their own connectivity issues or Crowdin issues. My only complaint from an administrators standpoint is that it is very difficult to have any sort of feature requests addressed, so unless the request is already on their roadmap or is shared by their much larger clients, it probably won't happen. Pros Crowdin is a huge cost savings compared to our previous software. We don't pay per translator access which is essential for crowdsourced translations and we only hit our string maximum after 5 years. The editor works well on a mobile device, which is key for volunteer translators to be able to contribute whenever they have time and does not exclude those who can only get online through their phones. Editor is robust and they're always adding great apps to add even more functionality. Project management is very simple as file progress/status is easy to track. Cons We would love for translators to see the status of their language for each project from their Profile view, so that they don't have to click into each project in order to see which one has work to be done. We also have needs for some of our volunteers to manage the permission of others, which was a feature when we started with Crowdin, but they removed this feature 2+ years ago and we're still waiting for new permissions to come out to help solve this problem. I would love to see more fine tuned controls for Machine Translation integration. Right now if you wanted to use different engines for each language pair you're not able to do that. Review Source Arasakumar T. Head of Engineering, Plant Utilities Mechanical or Industrial Engineering Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Perfect tool to work on multilingual contents" August 19, 2023 5.0 You can work concurrently. This is one of the most significant needs; undoubtedly, Crowdin is at its best. The software can be translated located at a time. It does gives the completion status and you don't need followups. Pros I can list many. The best part is Auto suggestions from the previous content or from other sources. You don't have to translate the repetitive words or sentences again. It will suggest the right words accordingly. And it checks grammatical mistakes even in secondary languages like Tamil from India. Cons Nothing big on the downside. The search function could have been better, and the web page is dull. Please include some interactive and vibrant colors. Navigating to a previous page could have been better/ Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Translator Entertainment Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Easy and Intuitive" August 9, 2023 5.0 My experience with Crowdin is extremely positive and I believe Crowdin is the best platform for localization of video games and websites. Pros Crowdin's interface is very user-friendly, it looks good and is easy to use. The tools provided are sufficient for a good quality translation and using them is very intuitive. Cons The spell checker could be improved to include a wider range of words. I feel like it would also be useful to integrate corpora of different languages into the website and allow users to search through them when they are in doubt of which words would work best for the translation. Review Source MS Maciej S. professor of math and CS Education Management Used the software for: 2+ years ### "From Maciej" September 14, 2023 5.0 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. Review Source PA Pop A. Digital Developer Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "The best translation platform " August 17, 2023 5.0 I'm using Crowdin to translate LineageOS in Romanian. Gigantic project. Crowdin just makes it so easy to translate it. When I have something to translate, I'll get an email to get informed about it. I can see the progress on the Romanian translation, what strings I need to translate and I can save each translation very easily. Pros The UI, the features and the user experience are the best features you can have on Crowdin. Cons There used to be a fast approve translation button which is no longer available or is hidden somewhere. Review Source Patrice L. COO Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Great translation platform, legendary support" April 26, 2024 5.0 We have used Crowdin to manage translations of our software and our whitepaper. Now we're looking at translating our documentation too. We crowd sourced the translations to 30+ languages by nearly 100 translators so far. Thanks to the GitHub integration, our open-source software codebase is continuously synchronized with our Crowdin project across versions. Finally, we have leveraged the Webhok and Crowdin APIs to build a fine-grained integration with our product, which will allow us to further gamify and incentivize translations. Pros Good UX, excellent support, great integration capabilities, and supports all kinds of translation workflows. Cons Because it's so powerful, it has a lot of settings that can be intimidating to administrate. Review Source FK Frank K. Consultant Cosmetics Used the software for: 2+ years ### "dm meets Crowdin" August 30, 2023 5.0 At dm-dogerie markt, we fully utilize Crowdin to translate and keep our online shop as well as our app up to date in 14 languages. Over 250 people have access to the platform. Additionally, other departments such as ERP and logistics also utilize Crowdin for their processes. Security has been a crucial aspect for us, which is why we greatly appreciate the availability of Single Sign-On (SSO) and System for Cross-domain Identity Management (SCIM). Pros fast and easy translations for over 250 users in the corporation Cons A simple overview of which teams a user is a part of. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Spanish Translator Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Amazing tool for localization" April 23, 2020 5.0 I am more than happy working with Crowdin. It is really easy to use, intuitive, it has a lot of features to help you work more efficiently in less time and it even includes a small place for comments between colleagues. Simply the best. Pros The feature that I like the most it is the TM. It works perfectly, you can search any word or phrase and the system will check in all projects to find the match. This way you can easily have consistency among your files. You can also leave comments in any string and even tag someone when you need something to be checked. You will receive a notification on your email when getting tagged. The software will also recommend similar translations for each phrase, that makes the translator job easier and faster. And it helps to avoid translating similar phrases into different expressions. Cons The only thing I would change is the 'approved' feature. This is used when someone checks and approves certain string, but it would be great if the check mark could have different colors depending on the user that approves it. This way it could be checked by different users until the final version is ready to download. Review Source MR Markus R. Developer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Best in class for crowd translations!" September 10, 2024 5.0 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. Review Source