The frame around everything
The sidebar, the phone’s tab bar, your account menu, the page a company sees while it is on hold, and the page for a part your company does not have.
Arabic
Meetowt in Arabic, read right to left
Everybody chooses their own language — English or العربية — and the screens that are done turn round properly: right to left, with Arabic words, counts and dates that read the way Arabic is read. The rest of the screens follow.
- Languages
- English and Arabic — each person chooses
- In Arabic now
- Most of Meetowt — mail, chat, files, calendar, tasks and more
- Still English
- Hours, time off, the HR screens and the administration pages
- Price
- Part of the dollar a person a month
What is in Arabic now
Whole screens, not a few buttons — and each one only when all of it is done.
The list, reading, writing and search; settings; mail on your phone; bringing your old mail across; filing rules and your out-of-office reply.
Chat
Channels, direct messages, voice notes, pictures, files and calls, with days, times and file sizes written the Arabic way.
Files and Your storage
Sharing, links, big uploads that carry on after a drop, and the page that shows what you keep and what you can clear.
Calendar and Today
Meetings and invitations, the month and the week, and the screen you land on.
Activity, and your account
What has happened that you should know about, and the page where you choose your language.
Tasks
The list and the board, priorities, projects, repeating tasks and the time you log, with counts and days written the Arabic way.
Topics and booking
Topics inside a chat channel, and booking a room or a car from the calendar.
Goals, contacts, reports and workflows
Goals and their check-ins, the company address book, the numbers for the people who run the company, and the rules that act when something happens.
Signatures, spending and the handbook
Sending a PDF to be signed and signing it, asking to buy something, and the handbook with a new starter’s first week.
Security
Your password, two-step sign-in and the devices you are signed in on.
Choosing it
Open Your account
Under Language, choose العربية.
The page turns round
It reloads at once, right to left, and stays that way on every computer and phone you sign in on.
Or set it for everybody
An administrator can choose the language people read until they choose their own. Somebody who has chosen keeps their choice.
Done properly, not only translated
Right to left all the way
The layout mirrors, arrows point the other way, and a screen is never half one direction and half the other.
Counts the Arabic way
One, two, a few and many each have their own words — “two messages” is not “2 message”.
Joined letters stay joined
Arabic is never spaced out, so words stay whole. Numbers and dates use the digits 0 to 9 in both languages, so an amount or a phone number is the same wherever you read it.
When something fails, it says so in Arabic
The common reasons a message did not send, a file did not upload or a rule did not save are written in the language you chose.
Good to know
- Some screens are still English, and the Language setting says which. The HR screens come first, then the administration pages.
- The sign-in pages are English for now. They belong to the sign-in server and are done separately.
- What people write stays as they wrote it: a message, a note, a file name or a person’s name is shown in whatever language its author used.
- Careers pages and the links for guests outside the company are English for now, and are not turned right to left — so nothing ever looks half-done.
- The words were written in plain, modern standard Arabic. If a word reads wrong to you, tell us at help@meetowt.com and it is a one-line change.
Questions
Can each person choose their own?
Yes. It is saved for the person, so it follows them to another computer or phone. Nothing changes for anybody until they — or an administrator — choose.
Is it Egyptian or standard Arabic?
Modern standard Arabic, in plain business words, so it reads the same in Cairo, Riyadh and Dubai.
Is all of Meetowt in Arabic?
Not yet. The screens listed above are; the rest are English until they are done, and what is on the way says so. Nothing here is a second bill.
One login, one price, all of it.
Mail, chat, meetings, calendar, documents, files and HR for everybody at your company — a dollar a person a month, and free while we are in early access.