diff --git a/prepare-release.bash b/prepare-release.bash
index fa8ba7c2..8f945224 100755
--- a/prepare-release.bash
+++ b/prepare-release.bash
@@ -44,7 +44,12 @@ Updating Translations
 tx push -s
 # Force push/pull to make sure this is executed. Apparently tx only compares timestamps, not file
 # contents. So if a file was `touch`ed, it won't be updated by default.
-tx pull -a -f
+# Use multiple transifex instances for pulling to speed things up.
+tx pull -a -f -r "syncthing-android.stringsxml" &
+tx pull -a -f -r "syncthing-android.description_fulltxt" &
+tx pull -a -f -r "syncthing-android.description_shorttxt" &
+tx pull -a -f -r "syncthing-android.titletxt" &
+wait
 ./gradlew deleteUnsupportedPlayTranslations
 git add -A "app/src/main/play/"
 git add -A "app/src/main/res/values-*/strings.xml"