Arabic characters still appear
If someone types Arabic into an open-text question, the letters show up. That is the browser doing its job with bidirectional text, not Mentimeter supporting Arabic.
No. Mentimeter's help centre lists 32 languages a participant can be shown, and Arabic is not among them. Neither is Hebrew nor Persian. There is no right-to-left layout, and the request asking for one has been sitting on Mentimeter's public feature board since January 2017.
Checked 12 September 2026 against Mentimeter's own pages. If that changes, this page changes.
| Languages offered to participants | 32, listed by name in the help centre: Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Welsh. No Arabic, no Hebrew, no Persian, no Urdu. |
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| Right-to-left layout | Not offered. The feature request "Enable RTL languages" was opened on Mentimeter's public board on 2 January 2017, has 20 votes, and carries no official response. |
| Who picks the language | The presenter, for the whole presentation. |
| Translation of what people type | None. Language settings change the interface, not the content. |
If someone types Arabic into an open-text question, the letters show up. That is the browser doing its job with bidirectional text, not Mentimeter supporting Arabic.
Buttons, labels, counters and result bars keep their left-to-right order around the Arabic. For a room that reads right to left, the page reads backwards.
The presenter picks the presentation language and every participant gets it. A bilingual room has to agree on one, which usually means the half that is less comfortable stays quiet.
Whatever the presenter typed stays in the language they typed it in, and so does every answer. Someone has to translate on the spot, or the results only make sense to part of the room.
Offers Arabic among 40 interface languages, which is more than Mentimeter does. The host still sets one language for the whole session, and Slido does not translate the host's questions or the audience's answers. The detail is here.
Built bilingual from the first commit. Each person picks their own language on their own phone, Arabic renders right to left everywhere including the presenter's screen, and open-text answers are translated so a mixed room can read every response. Free for up to 30 participants a month.
Worth saying plainly: if your audience reads comfortably in one of the 32 languages, Mentimeter is a mature product with a template library Nabad does not have. The Arabic gap is the reason to look elsewhere, not a verdict on the rest of it.
Not as a layout. Arabic characters render, because browsers handle bidirectional text on their own. The interface around them does not mirror, so a right-to-left reader gets a left-to-right page.
No. The presenter sets the presentation language and everyone sees that one.
No. Language settings change the interface text Mentimeter generates. What the presenter wrote and what the audience answered stay as typed.
No. Neither appears in the list of 32, and both are right to left, which is the same missing piece.
Free for up to 30 participants a month, with every question type and all eight languages. Paid plans start at $12 a month and raise the per-session limit. Full pricing.
Write one question, put the code on screen, and let the room answer in whichever language they think in.