Notion’s Arabic language support is now live across Notion’s core experience. You can use Arabic on desktop, web, and mobile, and Notion also mirrors the interface for Arabic as a right-to-left language. This change removes the daily friction many Arabic users faced when their tools did not match how they read and write.
Notion says Arabic support starts January 26, 2026, and it rolls out across the product, plus key website pages. The company frames this as a major product push for the Middle East after strong organic adoption in the region.
Notion’s Arabic language support covers the core product experience on desktop and mobile, and it also shows up on Notion’s homepage and key sections of the website. That matters because language support often stops at the app UI, while the rest of the product journey stays in English.
Notion also says it now supports 21 languages in total, with Arabic included in the official list. Notion Help Center
Notion mirrors the interface when you set your display language to Arabic. This means menus and layout follow right-to-left flow, so the product feels natural for Arabic readers. Notion also lets you set text direction at the block level using the block menu. This matters for mixed pages where you keep English terms, code, or links inside Arabic docs.
How to turn on Notion’s Arabic language support in settings
Go to Settings, then Preferences, then Language and Time, then pick Arabic from the Language dropdown. Notion explains the same path and notes that mobile language follows your device language ranking. If you want direction controls visible even when you work in a left-to-right language, Notion includes an Always show direction controls toggle in the same section.
Notion’s Arabic language support makes multilingual work less stressful
Notion’s Arabic language support targets a common reality in the region. Many teams work in Arabic and English in the same week, sometimes in the same document. When the workspace UI matches Arabic, teams spend less time fighting layout and more time writing, planning, and reviewing. That is the practical win, not the headline.
A separate report also stresses that right-to-left support requires full adaptation, not a simple translation layer. This matches what users asked for over the years.
What to expect next
Notion’s Arabic language support arrives alongside a wider trend in the Gulf. Teams want tools that handle AI workflows, shared knowledge, and multilingual work in one place. One report links this to the UAE’s strong push for AI-enabled work across government and private sector teams.
Notion also backed the launch with a community event in Dubai called Make with Notion. This signals that Notion wants local user stories and deeper ties, not only a language toggle.
