I currently use Crowdin as a volunteer localization contributor on a large multilingual software project with several thousand strings. I work directly in the editor to translate and review interface strings, check existing translations, communicate with other team members and follow the progress of the localization.

I really like having so much in one place. Progress is easy to follow, communication with teammates happens right inside the project, and I find the right-hand panel especially useful for comparing translations in other languages.

I’m also a big fan of the reporting tools. Being able to track the time spent on a project and turn it into a concrete cost based on an hourly rate is genuinely useful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are two things I’d really love to see.

For very large projects, I’d like an option to display many more strings — ideally a whole file — in one continuous list. Going through page after page gets repetitive when you’re working with thousands of strings, and being able to select or copy a large block at once would be very useful.

The feature I miss most is a true review mode for translations. I’d like to make a second pass through every string and simply mark it as “reviewed”, whether I changed it or not, with its own progress indicator. Approval is useful, but it isn’t quite the same thing. If I review 50 strings and only 35 need changes, I still want a clear way to know that all 50 have actually been checked. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.