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Crowdin vs Transifex: What are the differences?
What is Crowdin? Localization Management Platform. Crowdin is a localization management platform with all the features you need for agile localization. Get your app, game, web app, software and on fast and seamlessly translated into more than 300 languages.
What is Transifex? GitHub for Translation. Transifex is a cloud-based localization platform built to help you manage the translation and localization of your app, website, video subtitles, and more. It acts as a repository for your content (think GitHub for translation) and includes tools for developers to get that content into Transifex automatically. Transifex also provides translators a web interface to submit translations.
Crowdin and Transifex can be primarily classified as "Translation Service" tools.
Some of the features offered by Crowdin are:
- Translation Memory - no need to translate the same strings again
- Glossary - keep your project terminology consistent
- Screenshots - provide context to get relevant translations
On the other hand, Transifex provides the following key features:
- Command-line tool: A Git-like command line tool that lets developers manage translations within a project without an elaborate UI system. They can use the command-line client to create new resources, map locale files to translations, and synchronize their Transifex project with local files and vice versa
- Order translations: Get professional-quality translations in 33 languages
- Reports: See a list of users who have contributed to your projects along with the number of new and edited words each one has translated
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Pros of Crowdin
- Powerful tools and excellent customer support10
- Allows community-based translation4
- It's great tool for localization4
- Steep prices 🙁4
- GitHub integration (opens PR on translation done)3
- Variety of input formats2
- Works with multi level YAML sources2
- Great support2
- ICU support (better than other services)2
Pros of Transifex
- Best customer service1
- Highly technical team1
- Can scale to tens of millions of words1
- Solid API, well-documented1
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Cons of Transifex
- App is the source of truth2
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What is Crowdin?
Crowdin is localization management software enchanced by AI for teams. Translate your apps, websites, games, documentation, marketing campaigns, and other content into 100+ languages. Create a native experience for your global customers.
What is Transifex?
Transifex is a cloud-based localization platform built to help you manage the translation and localization of your app, website, video subtitles, and more. It acts as a repository for your content (think GitHub for translation) and includes tools for developers to get that content into Transifex automatically. Transifex also provides translators a web interface to submit translations.
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What are some alternatives to Crowdin and Transifex?
OneSky
OneSky provides a powerful cloud-based translation management system (TMS) that streamlines the entire translation management process for mobile apps, websites and documents. OneSky offers professional translation services and application testing solutions in 60+ languages. Over 3,000 companies have used OneSky to expand their global presence.
Lokalise
It is a translation management system, which is designed to make the process of localization faster and easier. Our platform reduces manual work and routine tasks that appear while translating web and mobile apps, games, and other software.
Weblate
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Phrase
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i18next
It is an internationalization-framework written in and for JavaScript. But it's much more than that! It goes beyond just providing the standard i18n features such as (plurals, context, interpolation, format). It provides you with a complete solution to localize your product from web to mobile and desktop.