# New Features

From fresh features like Screens Translation to Crowdin plugin for Figma and AI Assistant updates. Let's check out Crowdin localization software latest enhancements.

Welcome to Crowdin's December 2023 update. In this edition, we're excited to announce the Google Gemini AI provider, along with other major new features and the introduction of the Crowdin AI Assistant's new features. The new Strings projects are now accessible on crowdin.com. Check out the latest features, improvements, and plugin updates below.

Explore the latest advancements in Crowdin's October 2023 updates. This article delves into enhanced security, improved AI translations, and a more user-friendly experience. Discover how these innovations can redefine your translation process.

In this update, we'll unveil the highly anticipated TM Penalties feature, allowing localization managers to exercise greater control over Translation Memory matches. Additionally, the Crowdin Marketplace welcomes powerful applications like Mass User Manager for Crowdin Enterprise, simplifying project management for teams handling multiple projects. Moreover, new GNU Gettext Helper Apps facilitate smoother interactions with resource files, and the File Type Modifier app ensures accurate handling of proprietary file formats. Join us in exploring these exciting updates.

We're excited to share the latest updates from Crowdin. We've introduced new features to streamline translation workflows, improve project management, and empower localization professionals like you. Highlights include MTPE reports, Crowdin BI Connector to improve reporting abilities, new custom QA Checks, Embed File Context app, Modified Text Handler, and WYSIWYG Preview for all files. Let's explore what's in store.

In May 2023, Crowdin introduced new features and updates, including apps for subtitle translation, a Mass File Target Languages application to simplify setting target languages for multiple files, and an Encoding Converter app for managing file encodings. We also introduced limited acces to content for translators (per tasks only) and new Developer role, tailored for developers, providing them with tools, integrations, and access to the Crowdin API for seamless integration into the localization process.

In December, Crowdin released several updates that offer you a range of new tools and features, including new apps (OpenAI, XL8, Systran, Tencent Cloud's Machine Translation, and Alibaba Translate MT Connectors, Wistia, and SproutVideo). Other new features include a custom file format, improvements to user management and permissions, and new versions of the GitHub Action and iOS SDK. Let’s learn more about the updates that can help you improve your translation processes and work more efficiently.

More apps and connectors for your localization team, a new GraphQL API, and a fresh editor grid view to display more information for translators and proofreaders. In July, we released a lot of updates for you to get your hands on, from new apps like Miro, Appsmith, and Hygraph to features like bundles that allow you to export translations for multiple platforms by generating different files formats. Let’s dive into the July edition of Crowdin product updates.

More than 20 new apps. Refreshed UI and feature to help you manage strings on a multilingual view in the Editor. One more machine translation engine on the list. All of that and more. Read on to learn about Crowdin’s latest integration with Miro, Airtable, Notion, Typedream, Ditto.

This month, Crowdin announced more than 10 new apps, including Paligo, Zapier, Clockify, and Crowdin plugin for Unity. You can also enjoy new versions of translation cost reports per task and new webhooks about finished projects built. Keep reading to take a closer look at the recent updates.

Crowdin releases new features every month. Here’s a new portion of updates launched this March: we updated Crowdin Store, released new apps, new versions of design plugins and external tools, added new languages to Watson IBM Translate MT, and the ability to search TM records across all TMs in your Crowdin Enterprise organization. Let’s go through the monthly round-up of the latest features, fixes, and apps so that you can get most of our both products.

Let’s review the last month of the winter for the updates and new features in Crowdin. This February, we updated the location of additional tabs in the editor, released new versions of our design plugins, added 13 new apps, including Oracle, DatoCMS, eSputnik, and ownCloud. Now you can generate a translation cost report for the selected files and create glossary terms by highlighting the source on the editor. Keep reading to find out more about big and small things that will improve your localization experience.

Our new offer – Crowdin Language Services, is the fastest way to prepare content for your multilingual audience. Along with the localization management platform, we now deliver professional translation services. Want to reach a multilingual market? Now you have a quick and easy solution. Upload your files and order translations from a new vendor – Crowdin Language Services.

The beginning of a new year is an excellent time for fresh new ideas (is there a better time?). As the new year begins, everyone feels that we need to make changes in our life, start on new plans, do new things, and this is also true for Crowdin. In January, we introduced new apps, improved API, and rolled out two new offerings to extend your localization experience. These new offers include Crowdin Language Services, so you can order translations right from your project instantly, and a Virtual Localization Manager, so you can hire a remote professional, who will ensure that all processes at your localization projects are under control. Read on to discover more details.

Hope your 2022 started off well. Due to the holiday hustle and bustle, you may have missed some updates, but don't worry, we've got you covered. In December, we introduced a new multilingual editor mode that simplifies translating and proofreading to multiple languages at once. We also released 20 new apps, 9 of which are connectors with top email marketing tools and make translation for Unreal Engine developers even more efficient.

At Crowdin, we have recently celebrated reaching 2 million users, but it is not the only exciting announcement. November is full of updates and new apps. The latest changes in the marketplace – include 7 new apps (Shopify, Help Scout, MailUp, and more) and 2 Crowdin apps. We updated DVCS integrations so that you can instantly sync selected branches. Also, you can add more meta information to TM records, add the same string to several files simultaneously, and more.

New month, new list of updates from Crowdin. In October, we published our first e-book on continuous localization, released 9 new apps (connectors with MT, TM services, marketing tools, and more). A few Editor improvements include guess translation and numeric equivalence features. Also, we talked about localization at Avast with their Senior Localization Specialist. Let’s take a look at what’s new at Crowdin and Crowdin Enterprise in October.

Each month, we’re introducing a range of new features we’re adding to Crowdin. In July, we released an app that helps you integrate Crowdin with the WPML (WordPress Multilingual) plugin, added exact search in TM, a new API Console app, and a possibility to change the source language of your project right from the project page. And the list goes on, so keep reading to find out more.

Website localization is a great way to grow your audience, launch your product in more locales, and boost adoption in the existing locales. To make your WordPress website multilingual, you need a plugin that helps you add translations to your website. That is why we’re introducing an app that helps you integrate Crowdin with the WPML (WordPress Multilingual) plugin. In this article, you’ll learn how to send content from WPML to Crowdin, download completed translation jobs, choose target languages and translation strategies.

Each month we prepare a list of new features and updates to help you stay on top of things that can be useful and save lots of time during localization. June was a month when we released the IP allowlist feature for Crowdin Enterprise, TM Cleaner app, added exact search and additional filters in the translation editor, updated design plugins for Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, and more. Keep reading to find out more and see which improvements can be most helpful for your localization projects.

This month we added built-in Freshdesk integration and the ability to use your custom Glossary for machine translation via Google AutoML. Also, custom notification channels, webhooks for file-related actions, and other improvements to help you localize your content faster. Keep reading to take a closer look at the recent updates.

This month we’re back with a few product updates for you along with a new app for Intercom, new versions of Figma, Sketch, and Adobe XD plugins, one more machine translation engine you can connect to your projects, and new ways to handle duplicate strings. Plus, a story with Camila Pedraza on how they approach localization at AssessFirst. Let’s take a look at what’s new with Crowdin and Crowdin Enterprise in April.

At Crowdin, we launch new features and improve our products with every new month. Our monthly updates recap is a perfect way to keep up with major happenings in Crowdin and Crowdin Enterprise. Read on to learn more about the new integration with Bitbucket Server and Bitbucket Data Center, updates for API 2.0, Amazon S3 app, and plugins for Figma and Sketch. We’ve added the ability to add labels to screenshots easily, assign proofreading tasks to a vendor, and launched the Chinese version of Crowdin. Let’s take a close look at these and some other important updates.

Every new month brings us a new portion of product updates. Developers can now connect multiple repositories to their localization project, and this is a cherry on the cake of this monthly release collection. Apart from this, we've enhanced Crowdin API and released a new CLI version. Our Android SDK has moved to JitPack and, with the latest version of the Sketch plugin, designers can now select mockups they want to preview translated. Updated Contentful and JS Proxy for Crowdin apps and added native support for the MDX format. The list goes on and on. Let's look closer at all February-2021 improvements, new features, and most important releases for everyone localizing products in Crowdin and Crowdin Enterprise.

Here’s our traditional roundup of all the new features and improvements released in the last month. They include newly launched integration with Marketo, a new app for seamless glossary translation, new features for UI localization with Crowdin plugin for Figma, improved navigation for the Resources in Crowdin, exclusive Crowdin Enterprise updates, and more. Read on to learn details and check out all the new features the first month of 2021 brought us.

Crowdin releases new features every month. Here’s a new portion of handy updates launched this November: we announced Crowdin Store, released new apps, new versions of Crowdin CLI, Android SDK, our plugin for Sketch, added new file formats, and the whole bunch of new features for Crowdin and Crowdin Enterprise that will simplify localization workflows for your company. Let’s go through the key November 2020 updates so that you can take most of our both products.

Let's review the last month of the previous year for the updates and new features that will help you automate localization, provide context, and launch multilingual products in 2021 faster. The key updates released in December include: updates to Source files, Strings, and Tasks API, new versions of CLI, Android Studio plugin, plugins for Adobe XD and Sketch, new and updated Crowdin Apps, improvements to task and user management in both Crowdin and Crowdin Enterprise, and more.

October was a fun month and brought us some exciting new updates we’re ready to share with you. A bunch of new and empowered Crowdin apps, the ability to install them for your crowdin.com accounts, and new modules for those who create custom apps on their own. Updates for Crowdin Enterprise, our new API 2.0, and more. Read on to stay on top of everything that is new.

New features and improvements are now available for both Crowdin and Crowdin Enterprise. Over the past month, we rolled out new versions of our CLI, Android SDK, our plugin for Sketch, made some enhancement to API 2.0, introduced new Editor filters, redesigned the Integrations tab, and more. Most importantly, we now offer engineering teams a more efficient and secure way to build Crowdin Apps and customize localization experience. Read on to find more updates and get the most of Crowdin and Crowdin Enterprise.

From the initial step of copy creation to the final tests of the translated mockups before release. We understand how important it is for design teams to be involved in the localization cycle on each step. We’re excited to launch Crowdin plugin for Adobe XD that connects the two systems and will help designers play an active part throughout the localization process. With the new Crowdin plugin for Adobe XD, designers can upload production-ready texts from Crowdin and use them in their XD designs. Designers add new source strings when working in Adobe XD and send them to Crowdin for translation, along with the context for translators. The plugin also helps to create multilingual marketing visuals like brochures and banners faster.

Crowdin releases a powerful RESTful API 2.0 that allows you to do almost everything that you’d otherwise do through the interface. With the new API, you can build a continuous localization cycle and integrate it into the development process. We’ve expanded the functionality covered, improved overall API structure and performance, and made it easier for engineering teams to connect with both Crowdin and Crowdin Enterprise. You can communicate with the Crowdin API through standard HTTP methods: GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, and DELETE.

GitHub Actions give you the flexibility to set up automated software development workflows. Instead of writing lots of scripts, you can create customizable workflows and connect a series of tasks. Like building, testing, releasing, and more. Because localization is an integral part of the development lifecycle, we’ve included Crowdin Action to GitHub Marketplace. You can now add localization to the automated workflow and build multilingual products with the power of automation (read – faster and with less effort).

The key idea behind developing Crowdin Mobile SDK was to help you make the apps you build accessible to global customers faster, keeping your data secure, and ensuring the high quality of translation. Hence, Over-the-Air Content Delivery allows you to update the translated strings of the iOS and Android apps instantly. Without submitting a new app version on the App Store or Google Play each time new translations arrive. Along with CDN, Crowdin Mobile SDK allows you to set up two additional features. Both Screenshots and Real-Time Preview are not aimed at your end-users but will help to give translators functional and visual context. Learn how you can integrate SDK extras in your app localization workflow and get better translations.

Localization managers tell us every day they’ve been using tasks in Crowdin to arrange the translation process more and more often. There’s a distinct reason for that. With tasks, you can assign files to specific people or split content between translators equally. The more localization teams use tasks in Crowdin, the better the functionality should become. That’s why we decided to improve the way translators work on a specific task in the Editor. There’s now better navigation between tasks and files. Translators can search for strings and translations as well as replace translations only within a task. For offline translation, there’s the ability to download strings from a specific task. Besides, translators now preview the whole file but access only those strings assigned within a task. All to help translators stay focused and managers get the work done on time with less effort.

Make translations of your app accessible to your users in a click with Crowdin Over-the-Air Content Delivery for mobile apps. No need to release a new version of the app on the App Store or Google Play each time you want to publish new translations. Install Crowdin SDK on your app and deliver ready translations from your Crowdin project immediately. Two additional features will help to upload screenshots automatically and preview translations in the app in real-time.

Crowdin joins the GitHub Student Developer Pack program to help students build software that speaks different languages. If you are a student enrolled in the Pack program, you will get a free annual subscription to Crowdin Bronze plan. Your project is open-source? Request an open-source license and use Crowdin for free forever. We love open-source philosophy and support young professionals that seek real-world experience in software localization.

At Crowdin we take customer support very seriously and never compromise its quality. Because offering round-the-clock support is a big undertaking, we decided to test it before going public. We’ve been silently offering 24/7 support for a couple of months to make sure everything runs smoothly. And now we’re proud to announce – every Crowdin customer can now count on quick and competent answers from our Customer Success team whenever they need us. We’re available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Agile teams rely on a variety of tools to collaborate and move projects forward. The better the solutions work together, the easier it is to manage information flows and keep up with the updates. Crowdin introduces new notification system and Slack integration to help you stay in the loop. Crowdin updates now become more flexible, clear, and fine-grained. All to make sure you get the right information where you need it.

Our users spread the agile localization culture globally and it is Crowdin’s primary mission to ensure a safe environment for all the teams cooperating. That’s how data security and clients’ privacy became our high priority questions.

Now you can integrate your project in Crowdin with JIRA. This simplifies communication about mistakes in the source strings between translators and developers. Translators report mistake in the source string issues in Crowdin. Developers instantly know about them, because each becomes a sub-task in JIRA automatically. Once the mistakes are fixed and the strings in Crowdin are updated translators would be able to get down to making relevant translations. This way the localization process in your project would go faster.

Crowdin and GitLab are working together to speed up, elaborate, and advance your localization process. GitLab integration has a lot of common with GitHub one, see more details in our Help Center. Source files as well as translations in Crowdin are synchronized to the GitLab repository. Right after new translations appear they are automatically committed to the localization branch in your version control system (VCS). Special service branch with translations is created in GitLab correspondingly to each branch that you have in Crowdin.

Wonderful news to welcome: up from now Crowdin is even more accessible to internationalization and localization! We implemented the best ICU syntax support on the market, considerably mature localization tool, which can advance high-quality translations for your projects. Just check it out!

Great news for Crowdin & Desk users! Crowdin and Desk.com are in the same league which means a mitigation of the pitfalls that users experience when trying to deal with translations of the Knowledge base.

Developers and localization managers are the part of one tight unit now, because Crowdin integrates with GitHub and Bitbucket for all the organizational Crowdin subscriptions! This means that all the new texts from pull requests are sent to localization at no time, all the translations are downloaded automatically and available for review at GitHub or Bitbucket and all this is synchronized and automated.

Today, we are announcing the in-built QA check tool. It will help your proofreaders do not waste their efforts, guarantee higher quality of translations, and save your manager’s time.

The new Version Control feature we introduce today can significantly reduce the delay “after development before deploy” that usually agile companies struggle with. Time saving is achieved by letting translators work in parallel to developers. Generally speaking, every string created or modified by developer becomes available to translator almost immediately. Even if there are several teams working on different improvements.

We’re excited to announce a new integration with a Poedit, the legendary translation tool for Gettext resource files. This integration makes the collaboration for Poedit users way easier. Now every translator that uses Poedit inside of one project, can synchronize his/her work with Crowdin as a central place that manages translations.  The combination of Crowdin and Poedit also reduces the need for translators to deal with localization files manually. Using the integration, the updated source files can be pulled from Crowdin to the Poedit automatically, as well as translations are being saved in the cloud with one click. <Blockquote footer="Václav Slavík, the creator and lead developer of Poedit"> This integration allows translators to leverage the new era collaboration tools directly from Poedit app they are used to and even lets them work offline when needed. Crowdin also makes the project managers much more efficient, I can’t imagine handling Poedit’s 70+ translations without it anymore myself. </Blockquote>

Today, we’re releasing new workflows and translation editor that is much more modern and much easier to use.

Gross domestic product (GDP) of the USA in average grows for 3% per year. This is quite a tempo, and the index is pretty much the same among all developed countries. What interesting is that this growth is almost entirely about technological progress. With innovation and automation, people have wider possibilities and more time to produce more goods. And yes, this macroeconomics principle can be applied to any business. Here at Crowdin we try to automate and optimize every single step during localization to save your time and resources. We keep the principle in mind each time we develop a new feature. So we’re excited to share some recent improvements within Crowdin.

Crowdin gives wide range of possibilities to provide contextual information to translators. We allow to upload screenshots to show where the text segment is being used in real product, comment segments, create glossary to highlight and explain important terms, collaborate on choosing best translation and more. Today, after more than 6 months of active development, we release the public beta of our brand new In-Context localization tool for web applications called JIPT (Just In Place Translations).  JIPT allows translators to do their work right in the live application, immediately preview translation in original context thus produce best possible quality localization. All of the texts that are visible in browsers can be translated this way (including ones stored in the database).

When the localization is completed all the imperfections are polished and every single text fits to the space it belongs to, it frequently appears that it is not really the end.  In fact, screenshots, logos and other non-textual materials with text on them remain untranslated. To reduce the pain the one is feeling thinking about those graphics localization, we developed the solution to organize the process.

Have you ever feel inspired? If yes, you know how the inspiration could be: once you inspired no one can stop you from doing a lot of beautiful things. And the inspiration given by customers’ positive feedback motivate our team to conquer the tops of localization dreams. I am excited to present improvements that make Crowdin one of a kind.

Typical question of most of you after starting the Crowdin project was “How to get translators for my project”. Since Crowdin is crowdsourcing management platform we offered you to invite your communities/partners/colleagues to help with the translation. Still, sometimes it’s not enough. When deadline is close and quality is critical you realize that the only way to proceed is to involve professionals. That brought additional expenses for organization and management process. Another usual situation. Project is particularly translated by volunteers and considering close deadline you need to finish translation or just make sure crowd-made translations are of appropriate quality. We can keep on counting the cases when support of professional linguists were required. Forget all those challenges. We’re excited to announce the solution today. Simple and automated as usual.

You definitely had those minutes when you realize that unexpectedly all your solid efforts fall off the edge of the earth, or your work is so messed up that the only way to fix it is to start from the very beginning. You could upload translation file for the wrong language or some of your evil translators spoiled the beautiful translation process by doing wrong translations. There is no way you are going to experience those with Crowdin because we took care about your composure and comfort. New feature is entirely ready to make your project completely accurate and mess-free. We call it “Activity Undo”, because it magically abolish all unnecessary and nonsensical actions of inexperienced translators, upset proofreaders or sleepy project managers (that is probably you) that made some fuzzy translation, votes, approvals or uploads. You can monitor all the project activities and cancel actions you do not like or appreciate. You can be brutally honest to those actions that do not fit the concept of your project. Here is how it works:  You can cancel bad activities just for one “Undo” click. The following activities can be undone: - translations; - votes; - approvals. Moreover, we have added and improved several activity types that will help you make the picture of your project crystal clear. Here are the new activities: - find out the exact name of the file that was added, updated or deleted; - bring to light the number of updated strings so you they will never be forgotten. These awesome activities will make it absolutely clear for translators what to do next after getting project update notification. Crowdin just cannot stop getting better for you because we understand that the better we are the happier are our customers. Remember to subscribe our new blog and you will never miss new awesome stuff that is coming soon.