Pontoon
Web-based translation management system that pulls strings from version control and writes translations back, run by Mozilla for its localization community.
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Pontoon is Mozilla’s translation management system, a web application in which a community of localizers translates, reviews and manages strings for Mozilla’s products and websites. It pulls strings from Git and Mercurial repositories and writes translations back to them. Its REST API, built on Django REST Framework, serves translation data and accepts uploads of translations, pretranslations and suggestions. The README describes Mozilla’s own deployment as a Docker image on Google Cloud Platform, which anyone hosting an instance may need to adapt for another platform. Users hold a contributor, translator or team manager role, and the admin console is open only to administrators.
Worth knowing
Sign-in can use third-party providers, Mozilla Accounts, GitHub, GitLab, Google or Keycloak, each set up as an OAuth application. The developer setup is for development only; the deployment guide covers production.
Identity
- Status
- Active
- Maintainer
- Mozilla Foundation4
- Maintained by
- Foundation4
- First release
- 20125
Rendering and deploy
- Install with
- docker3
Releases
- Last release
- 2026-11-026
Adoption
Sources
- 2026-11-03: links
pontoon.mozilla.org/ - 2026-11-03: links, Categories
pontoon.mozilla.org/docs/ - 2026-11-03: links, Written in, License, Install with, GitHub stars, Contributors
github.com/mozilla/pontoon - 2026-11-03: Maintainer, Maintained by
github.com/mozilla/pontoon/blob/main/LICENSE - 2026-11-03: First release
github.com/mozilla/pontoon/tags - 2026-11-03: Last release
github.com/mozilla/pontoon/releases - 2026-11-03: Databases
pontoon.mozilla.org/docs/dev/developer-setup/ - 2026-11-03: Admin interface
pontoon.mozilla.org/docs/admin/ - 2026-11-03: Content API
pontoon.mozilla.org/docs/dev/api/