Redokun: the Phrase TMS alternative for manufacturing marketing teams
Phrase is an enterprise language platform for localisation teams and language service providers, with separate products for documents, software, and media. Redokun does one job: it translates your catalogues, datasheets, and brochures with your own translators, and gives the file back in the same format.
Translate a few times a year? Project Pass: one project, one price.
Translate regularly? The Workspace Plan.
Which tool fits your team
Both tools translate InDesign, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel files. They are built for different teams.
PHRASE is the better fit if you:
Redokun is the better fit if you:
Redokun vs Phrase: feature comparison
Redokun
PHRASE
Built for
Marketing teams at manufacturers translating documents
Localisation teams and language service providers
What you buy
One product for document translation
A platform of products: TMS, Strings, Orchestrator, Language AI, and more
InDesign
.idml, layout preserved · Adobe Technology Partner
.idml, with detailed import options and in-context preview
AI translation
DeepL, Google Translate, and ChatGPT, included
Phrase Language AI, with customisable MT profiles and glossaries
Who translates
Your own translators, distributors, or agency.
Unlimited TMS seats on business plans, with vendor management
Integrations
File-based: upload and download
Figma, Slack, WordPress, and code repositories. AEM and Contentful on higher tiers
How to get started
Sign up for a 14-day free trial and start the same day
Business plans start with a sales conversation
One-off project, no
subscription
Project Pass
Not offered for businesses
Billing
Monthly, or annual with a 15% saving
Billed annually
Where Phrase is stronger: breadth across software, web, and media; integrations; workflow automation; vendor management; and a large pool of translators who already use it.
Redokun is built for a marketing team translating documents without a localisation department. See full pricing
Phrase is built for a localisation department. Most manufacturers' marketing teams don't have one.
Phrase gives a localisation team a lot to work with: separate products for documents and software strings, workflow automation, vendor management, and quality scoring. Someone has to set it up and run it. A marketing manager at a mid-sized manufacturer usually owns translation alongside everything else:
A catalogue update is due before a trade show. You need to upload the file this week, not after a procurement cycle.
Your translators are a freelancer, a distributor's product manager, and an agency. They need a link to the document, not a platform to learn.
Translation comes in waves. A catalogue in spring, a datasheet run in autumn. An annual contract sized for a localisation team doesn't match that.
Redokun is built for this situation. Upload the file, invite your translators, and download the finished document.
Moving from Phrase to Redokun
Bring your Translation Memory
Bring your terminology
Upload your source files.
Invite translatorsand Pre-translate
What changes when you translate in Redokun
You can start this afternoon
Create an account, upload a document, and invite your first translator. There is no sales call, no onboarding programme, and nothing to install.
Start your 14 day free trial now
Your translators work in one editor you can see
Invite a freelancer, a distributor, or an agency by email. They translate in the browser, and you see progress by document and by language. If an agency prefers its own tools, export the phrases and import their work back in.
Start your first project today
When a spec changes, translators only see what changed
Upload the revised document. Quick Revisions carries over every confirmed segment in every language, so your translators handle only the new or edited text.
See how Quick Revisions work
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Frequently asked questions
Yes. Export your Translation Memory from Phrase TMS as a TMX file and import it into Redokun.
Both tools translate .idml files and return them with the layout in place. Redokun was founded by an InDesign expert and is an Adobe Technology Partner. The difference between the two is less about InDesign support and more about who each tool is built for.
No. Redokun is built for marketing teams that manage translation alongside other work. You upload a file, invite your translators by email, and download the translated document.
If you have one project now, buy Project Pass and upload your files the same day. For ongoing work, create a free account and start your 14-day trial of the Workspace Plan.