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.
Does Mentimeter support Arabic?
Short answer
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.
The evidence
What Mentimeter actually says
| 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. |
|---|---|
| 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. |
In practice
What this means in a real room
The interface stays left to right
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.
Everyone gets one language
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.
Nothing gets translated
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.
Alternatives
If you need Arabic, what works
Slido
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.
Nabad
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 rooms up to 30 people.
Keep Mentimeter
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.
Is Nabad only for multilingual rooms?
No. Nabad is your all-in-one: one tool for every room you run.
One language
- Runs in your language, nothing to set up
- Your audience never sees a language menu
- Every question type: polls, word clouds, rankings, Q&A
More than one
- Everyone joins in their own language, automatically
- Open answers are translated live as they arrive
- One screen of results for the whole room
Questions
Related questions
Is Nabad only for multilingual rooms?
No. You choose how many languages a session runs in. Pick one and untick the rest, and there is nothing to switch between, so the language picker never appears. The day the room is not all one language, you turn the others on and everyone reads and answers in their own.
Does Mentimeter support right-to-left text?
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.
Can each participant choose their own language in Mentimeter?
No. The presenter sets the presentation language and everyone sees that one.
Does Mentimeter translate open-ended answers?
No. Language settings change the interface text Mentimeter generates. What the presenter wrote and what the audience answered stay as typed.
Is Hebrew or Persian supported?
No. Neither appears in the list of 32, and both are right to left, which is the same missing piece.
What does Nabad cost?
Free for rooms up to 30 people, with every question type and all eighty-six languages. Paid plans start at $12 a month and raise the per-session limit. Full pricing.
Try an Arabic poll in about two minutes
Write one question, put the code on screen, and let the room answer in whichever language they think in.