Redokun: The DeepL Alternative for Manufacturing Marketing Teams
Redokun is a translation management platform that runs on DeepL's machine translation engine — so you keep DeepL's translation quality, and add the project management, collaboration, and document-formatting tools a manufacturer actually needs to get catalogs, manuals, and brochures into every export market. Manufacturing marketing teams using Redokun instead of DeepL alone report finishing translation projects up to 3x faster, with as much as 70% less time spent on manual review.
Redokun has helped thousands of teams streamline their translation workflows at companies like
DeepL is a great translation engine. It's not built for how manufacturers ship content.
DeepL translates text well. It doesn't help you manage what a manufacturing marketing team actually deals with — usually alone, usually without a dedicated localization team:
Extracting text by hand from InDesign catalogs, spec sheets, and technical manuals before you can even translate them
Reproducing complex layouts — tables, callouts, diagrams, part numbers — by hand across every export market's language
Keeping technical and product terminology consistent so a part name or safety term doesn't shift between your German distributor's materials and your French ones
Chasing your distributor network, external translators, or a technical writer over email with no shared place to track who's done what — especially when you're racing a trade show or product launch date with 10, 20, or 30 target languages still in progress
Redokun connects to DeepL, ChatGPT, and Google Translate so you can pre-translate entire documents — InDesign, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, XLIFF, and more — in seconds, keep the source layout intact, and manage the whole review process in one place, without needing a localization specialist on staff.
Redokun vs DeepL: Feature Comparison
Redokun customers report saving as much as 70% in production time by using Redokun to review and validate translated documents, compared to a manual DeepL-only workflow.
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With Redokun, Carlisle Fluid Technologies turned 3-week translation turnarounds into minutes
“Before, it would take about three weeks for a turnaround for translations. Every time something had to get done or revised, it was three weeks. Now, we are doing it in minutes.”
Rockfon improved their productivity by up to 70% while translating for 20 different markets with Redokun
“We are saving between 60-70% of our time now because the whole process of getting the file ready doesn’t take much. And then from that, uploading the files to Redokun is much faster. It takes about 1/10 of the time compared to having to do it manually through creating and sending email files.”
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Keep Technical Terminology Consistent Across Every Market
A glossary locks in the terms you can't afford to get wrong — part names, safety language, regulatory phrasing, brand vocabulary — so a distributor in Germany and one in Brazil are working from the same definitions, not independent guesses. Workspace plans include up to 250 glossary entries per target language pair at no extra charge — enough for most product lines' worth of technical vocabulary — with add-ons available if you need more. Once you upload a document, Redokun automatically suggests up to 15 glossary terms in the Web Editor, so you're not building your terminology list by hand before you can even start translating.
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Translate and Communicate in the Same Space
Redokun replaces the email thread with your distributor network. In-house reviewers, regional partners, and external translators all work inside the same document, leaving comments and tagging each other without leaving the platform.
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Update Documents Across Languages in Seconds When Specs Change
Product specs and manuals change. When they do, Redokun's Quick Revisions carries over every unchanged segment automatically across every language — only the new or edited text needs to be retranslated and reviewed, instead of starting the whole document over.
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Download Translations With Layout, Tables, and Diagrams Intact
No one has to rebuild an InDesign catalog or spec sheet by hand. Upload the original file, and you get back a fully formatted version in the target language — tables, callouts, and technical diagrams in place — ready for a final quality check.
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Reuse Approved Translations Across Every Product Line
Every project pulls from your growing translation memory. Reviewers get suggestions for identical or similar text they've already approved, so recurring content — boilerplate, part numbers, compliance language — never has to be translated twice as your catalog grows.
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WhizCut future-proofed its translation workflow into 45+ export markets with Redokun
“The more I work with it, the better the tool works.”
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Redokun a replacement for DeepL, or does it work alongside it?
Redokun works alongside DeepL — it isn't a competing machine translation engine. Redokun integrates DeepL's translation engine (plus ChatGPT and Google Translate) directly into a project management and collaboration workspace, so you keep DeepL's translation quality and add the tools DeepL doesn't offer: document formatting, translation memory, glossary, task assignment, and team review.
Is there a free DeepL alternative?
Redokun offers a 14-day free trial with 10,000 words included, no credit card required, so you can test the full workflow — including DeepL-powered pre-translation — before committing to a plan. If you specifically need an ongoing free tier rather than a trial, DeepL's own free tier caps monthly character volume and doesn't include document upload or team features.
Is DeepL still free, and how does that compare to Redokun's pricing?
DeepL's free tier limits how many characters you can translate per month and doesn't support document upload. DeepL Pro is priced per user. Redokun offers two pricing paths instead: a one-off Project Pass with no subscription, for a single translation project like a catalog or manual ahead of a launch or trade show, or an ongoing Workspace plan for teams translating continuously. Workspace comes with 2 managers and 30 translator seats, and you choose the monthly word volume that fits your needs — with add-ons available if you need more seats or more words.
Do I need an ongoing subscription to use Redokun?
No. Redokun's Project Pass is built for one-off translation projects — pay once, translate a single document or batch of documents, no recurring subscription. If your translation needs are ongoing rather than occasional, the Workspace plan gives your whole team a permanent shared space instead. Both use the same DeepL, ChatGPT, and Google Translate integration and the same glossary and translation memory features.
Is DeepL the most accurate machine translation engine?
DeepL is generally considered strong for accuracy in the language pairs it supports well, though Google Translate covers more languages overall, and ChatGPT can offer stronger context-aware suggestions for certain content types. Because Redokun integrates all three engines, your team can use whichever gives better suggestions for a given language pair or document, rather than being locked into one.
Can I use Redokun without switching away from DeepL?
Yes. Redokun is built to sit on top of your existing DeepL usage, not replace it — you keep using DeepL's translation engine, and Redokun adds the workflow around it.
Does Redokun handle technical or industry-specific terminology?
Yes. Redokun's glossary feature locks in the exact terms you specify — part names, safety language, regulatory phrasing, brand vocabulary — so machine translation suggestions and your team's reviews stay consistent with your terminology, not a generic dictionary. You can add up to 250 glossary entries per target language pair on a Workspace plan at no additional charge, with add-ons available if you need more. Once you upload a document, Redokun also automatically suggests up to 15 glossary terms in the Web Editor, so you don't have to build your terminology list manually before you can start translating.
Can Redokun translate product catalogs, manuals, and technical documents specifically?
Yes. Redokun is built around the file formats manufacturers actually use — InDesign, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and XLIFF — and preserves layout elements like tables, callouts, and diagrams that are common in catalogs and technical manuals but that most machine translation tools, DeepL included, don't handle on their own.
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