Crowdin is a proprietary, cloud-based localization technology and services company.

It provides software as a service for commercial products, and it provides software free of charge for non-commercial open source projects,[2] and educational projects.

[3][1] The company was founded in 2008 by Ukrainian programmer Serhiy Dmytryshyn as a hobby project for localization of small projects.

[citation needed] The platform was officially launched in January 2009.

Since then, it was adopted among software and game development[4] (including Minecraft)[5] companies, for software translation.