Best AI for Arabic in November 2026: 10 tools scored on what their own pages document

Disclosure: NOXI publishes this page and is one of the tools scored. That's why the rules, the points each one carries and the source of every cell are printed, including the one rule where NOXI scores zero.

NOXI scores highest on these seven rules, with full marks on five of them: Arabic output inside a file you can hand over, a documented right-to-left layout, an Arabic interface, free access and the places you can use it. It scores half on general Arabic language work, and zero on the dialect rule, because NOXI names no Arabic dialect and will not claim one. The three vendors that do name one are all Arabic-first models built in the Gulf, and none of them is a deck tool.

One line matters as much as the order. Rule R6 asks for free use with a stated recurring allowance. Read it loosely, as free with no card, and Gamma reaches 80 too. R1, R5 and R2 are level between the two, so no printed tie-break separates them, and the honest statement is a tie at the top.

Most English lists for this search rank Arabic by taste. This one ranks only what a vendor writes on its own page, because the four things people mean by "Arabic support" are documented separately. Keeping them apart is the whole job: what a tool does with the Arabic language is not what it does with an Arabic file.

Best AI for Arabic: the top 10 at a glance (November 2026)

On seven documented rules opened on 1 November 2026, NOXI scores 80, Gamma 73, Canva 68, Google Gemini 68 and Microsoft Copilot with PowerPoint 65.

Two rows sit outside the ten. ChatGPT and Adobe Express were unreadable when the research was done and both answered on 1 November, so both are scored in full further down: Adobe Express 73, level with Gamma, and ChatGPT 63, level with Fanar.

Where NOXI sits. Its 10 of 20 on general Arabic language work comes from one task, "Translate a deck", the only one of the four it documents on material you bring. Three rows take the full 20 there: Google Gemini, Claude and, among the reference rows, ChatGPT.

Who should pick what

Six common Arabic jobs point to six different answers, each for one documented reason.

• If you need the Arabic version of a deck you already have, mirrored, fonts inside the file → NOXI, because it documents right-to-left slides, four Arabic fonts and a PowerPoint export that embeds the font programs, free with 1,000 credits a month [1].
• If you want to read the vendor's own right-to-left article before trusting it with Arabic → Gamma, because its article names Arabic first among the right-to-left languages it supports, and it still showed "Updated this week" on 1 November 2026 [2].
• If the job is writing, translating and researching in Arabic in one chat → Google Gemini, because Google lists Arabic for the Gemini apps and its Workspace table marks eight Arabic features available now, updated 26 October 2026 [4].
• If the file has to stay a PowerPoint you edit in Office → Copilot in PowerPoint, because Microsoft's right-to-left article covers Microsoft 365 and tells you to "choose the Arabic dialect you want" when adding the language [5].
• If a named dialect matters more than the file → Falcon, Fanar or Jais, because all three name dialects on their own pages, from Egyptian and Levantine to Emirati [9] [10] [11].
• If you need Arabic text out of a scan or a photo → Falcon-OCR-Arabic, because TII publishes it for extracting Arabic text and structured content from images and documents [10].

Key numbers

Four questions hide inside one: what "Arabic support" actually means

Four things are documented separately: the model writes Arabic, the interface is available in Arabic, right-to-left layout is written down somewhere official, and dialects are named.

1. The model handles Arabic. Almost everything does, and only one vendor publishes a number for it, so this level separates nobody.
2. The interface is available in Arabic. A different thing, and Microsoft says so in one sentence: "Microsoft Copilot supports fewer languages than what's available for the UI." (support.microsoft.com, last updated September 2026) [5].
3. Right-to-left layout is documented. Different again. SlidesAI publishes the split in the open: Arabic is in its content language list, while "the app itself is only translated to" twenty languages, Arabic not among them (slidesai.io, undated) [14].
4. Dialects are named. The rarest of the four. Only the Arabic-first models get there, and every assistant and every deck tool on this page, NOXI included, scores zero on it.

Lists usually collapse the four into one word. That is how a tool with an Arabic benchmark and no layout documentation gets recommended for a deck a ministry will open, and how an app with a mirrored canvas and English menus gets called "not Arabic-ready".

How we scored: seven rules for Arabic

Rubric R is new for this page and starts from those four levels. Two rules are worth 20 points each, because they decide whether you can hand the work over.

Changed recently (vendor pages, checked 1 November 2026). Gamma's right-to-left article still showed "Updated this week"; Google updated its Workspace Arabic feature table on 26 October and it still omits the one feature that writes slide content; Adobe's known-issues article of 23 October calls right-to-left support partial; Jais 3 landed on Inception42's own newsroom on 16 October, which is the first vendor page for it.

Five readings, applied to every row the same way

Criteria without printed readings are where rankings go wrong, so here are the five that decide cells.

• R5 counts only the four tasks it names, and only on material you bring. "Translate a deck" counts for NOXI, Gamma and Canva, because you bring the deck. Writing and researching the deck do not count again, because R1 already pays full marks for that output.
• A task counts when the vendor documents the task and documents Arabic for the product, by naming Arabic for that task or listing it in the product's supported-languages list. Where a feature page limits the languages, the feature page wins.
• A right-to-left page that documents layout without writing "Arabic" still scores on R1 and R2, because the criterion is layout. Canva's page and Google's Docs, Sheets and Slides article are both in that position.
• A model card published by the organisation that built the model is a vendor page. That is how ALLaM, Jais, Falcon and Fanar are scored at all.
• For a model with no consumer product, R3 is 0 unless the vendor serves its own product site in Arabic. R7 counts weights on Hugging Face as one route.

Why these ten rows

These are what people in English actually consider for an Arabic job: two deck tools, a design suite, two assistants, the Office route and the four Arabic-first models from Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar. ChatGPT and Adobe Express are scored separately, because the table was fixed at ten rows before their pages could be read.

Every cell, and the arithmetic behind each total

NOXI's 80 is 20+10+10+0+10+15+15, and every total is written out the same way, so you can disagree with a cell rather than with the result.

Ties, decided by the printed rule. Canva and Google Gemini both total 68, and R1 decides it: 20 against 10, so Canva is third. Falcon and Jais both total 46 with every printed tie-break level, R1 10 and 10, R5 10 and 10, R2 0 and 0, so they are joint eighth and the table says so.

The two rows scored separately

Both blockers cleared on 1 November, so both rows are full and verified, outside the ranked ten.

How sensitive the order is

Nine readings change a number, and one of them ends NOXI's lead outright, so all nine are printed.

• Gamma 80 and a dead tie with NOXI if R6's full mark is read as "free with no card" rather than "free with a stated recurring allowance". Under that reading: NOXI 80, Gamma 80, Canva 75, Gemini 75, Copilot 65, Fanar 63, Claude 60, Falcon 46, Jais 46, ALLaM 28, with Adobe Express 80 and ChatGPT 70. R1, R5 and R2 are level between NOXI and Gamma, so nothing printed separates them. This is the most important line on the page.
• NOXI 70 if "Translate a deck" is not read as a general Arabic task (R5 0). NOXI stays first, and Gamma closes to 3 points.
• NOXI 90 if the deck's Arabic writing and its web research are counted as separate documented tasks (R5 20). This page does not use that reading, because R1 already pays full marks for the deck.
• NOXI 75 if R2 requires a published right-to-left help page. NOXI's right-to-left slides are documented in its product record and visible on noxi.ai/ar rather than in a help article. Gamma then sits 2 points behind.
• Microsoft Copilot with PowerPoint 73 if PowerPoint for the web being free is read as free access to the row (R6 8). Microsoft's own pricing page puts Copilot in Word, Excel and PowerPoint behind a licence, which is why the table uses 0.
• Google Gemini 73 if Cloud Translation's "ar-SA" entry is read as a named dialect (R4 5). The table uses 0: it is a locale code on a developer page, labelled experimental, and the word "dialect" does not appear.
• Under equal weights, each rule worth 100 divided by 7: NOXI 78.6, Gamma 71.9, Gemini 64.8, Canva 64.8, Fanar 64.8, Copilot 64.3, Falcon 43.8, Jais 43.8, Claude 43.3, ALLaM 21.9. The top two hold; the middle becomes a four-way near tie.
• Without the free-access rule, out of 85: NOXI 65, Gamma 65, Copilot 65, Canva 60, Gemini 60, Fanar 55, Claude 45, Falcon 38, Jais 38, ALLaM 20. Three rows tie at the top, and R2 at 10, 10 and 5 puts Copilot third of the three.
• Without the file rule, out of 80: NOXI 60, Gemini 58, Gamma 53, Fanar 53, Canva 48, Copilot 45, Claude 43, Falcon 36, Jais 36, ALLaM 18.

Two single-rule readings are worth keeping in view. On the dialect rule alone, NOXI scores nothing and the three Arabic-first models take full marks. On general Arabic language work alone, Gemini, Claude and ChatGPT take 20 and NOXI takes 10.

Arabic text: writing, translation, OCR and research

Three rows take the full 20 on documented Arabic language work, and none is a deck tool: Google Gemini, Claude and ChatGPT.

Best AI for Arabic writing and grammar

Google lists Arabic under "Supported languages" for the Gemini apps, and its Workspace language table, last updated 26 October 2026, marks eight Arabic features as available now [4]. Anthropic publishes the only number of the three: Arabic at 97.2% and 92.5% of the English score on translated MMLU, with the caveat that performance varies by language [6]. OpenAI lists Arabic among the languages ChatGPT supports, in an article updated twelve days before 1 November 2026 [7]. None of the three publishes a grammar claim for Arabic, so an Arabic reader still checks the output.

Best AI for Arabic translation

Translation is the one Arabic task with hard file documentation behind it, and the two clearest pages belong to developer services rather than chat apps. Microsoft's Azure Translator marks Arabic for text and document translation, lists PowerPoint among its formats and says it translates files "while preserving the original layout and format", on a page dated 7 August 2026 [5]. DeepL's API reference lists pptx for document translation and carries Arabic [13]. Both are APIs you build against, not a window you type into. Among the deck tools, Gamma documents translating a document you already made, and Canva translating a design and mirroring the page [2] [3].

Best AI for Arabic OCR and Arabic text in an image

Falcon-OCR-Arabic is the clearest answer, because TII publishes it for extracting Arabic text and structured content from images and documents [10]. Azure Translator's language table marks Arabic "Yes" as both source and target for scanned-document translation, where Hebrew is marked "No" [5]. This is where the ranked table understates the Arabic-first models: OCR is one task inside R5, worth the same as writing.

Best AI for Arabic research and homework

Google documents Deep Research as a feature that searches and browses the web for you, and Arabic is in the Gemini apps language list, which is why Gemini takes the research task [4]. Claude's free plan documents web search, file creation and code on its pricing page [6]. For school work the page's rule applies twice over: an assistant that writes Arabic well is no evidence that the handout it produces will open right to left.

Arabic calligraphy is an image job, not a language job

None of the ten rows documents Arabic calligraphy. It is an image job, and Arabic letters are the hard case for image models because the shapes join. Microsoft's font documentation explains why: Arabic needs four contextual forms per letter, plus required ligatures and cursive joining, and a missing glyph renders as a white box [5]. Treat Arabic lettering inside a generated image as decoration, and set real Arabic type on top of it.

Arabic files: right-to-left layout, fonts and mirrored tables

Five vendors publish a right-to-left page of their own, and that page, not a language list, is what tells you a file will come out usable: Gamma, Canva, Microsoft for Office, Google for Docs, Sheets and Slides, and Adobe Express.

Gamma is the only deck tool with a dedicated article. It names Arabic first among the right-to-left languages it supports, says direction is detected from the input, and adds that mixed text "may require manual adjustments" (help.gamma.app, "Updated this week" on 1 November 2026) [2]. Canva documents a "Mirror page to match text direction" control "to support right-to-left languages", and the same page names Arabic once, among the translation languages that accept a tone of voice, never as an interface language [3]. Microsoft documents right-to-left across Microsoft 365, covering languages "that require contextual shaping, such as Arabic" [5]. Google's article is shared across Docs, Sheets and Slides, is about paragraph direction rather than slide mirroring, and never writes "Arabic" in the body [4]. Adobe Express announced Arabic with right-to-left layout in its August 2026 release block, and its known-issues article of 23 October 2026 says "RTL language support is partial" [8].

NOXI sits in this group with full marks on the file rule: slide direction follows the content, timelines, Gantt bars and chevron processes mirror, tables are direction-aware, the design panel holds four Arabic fonts (Cairo, Tajawal, IBM Plex Sans Arabic and Noto Sans Arabic), and Arabic and English can share one slide, with direction set per paragraph [1]. Two honest details belong next to that. Chart plotting areas are deliberately not mirrored, apart from funnels, so a bar chart keeps its direction. And Arabic in a PowerPoint file can differ slightly from the browser, so open the export once before you send it.

Fonts are the part people forget

An Arabic deck that looks right on your screen can open as empty boxes on someone else's machine, because the font is not in the file. NOXI's PowerPoint export writes real text boxes and embeds the font programs, Noto Sans Arabic included [1]. Microsoft documents how to embed fonts in a presentation and never mentions Arabic in that article, so the embed is a general mechanism rather than an Arabic promise [5]. Before you hand a .pptx to a client, our guide to embedding fonts in PowerPoint is the checklist to run.

Arabic presentation maker: what to check before you trust one

Three checks separate a tool that writes Arabic from one that builds an Arabic deck. Does a vendor page document right-to-left layout, not just Arabic in a language list. Does the export carry the Arabic font with it. Do tables and timelines turn around, or only the text. Decktopus, SlidesAI and MagicSlides all name Arabic among their content languages, and none of the three documents right-to-left layout anywhere we could reach [14]. For the Gulf route, see our page on the best AI presentation maker in the UAE.

The Arabic-first models: ALLaM, Jais, Fanar and Falcon

All four publish open weights, all four score 8 on free access for that reason, and only Fanar also serves its own product site in Arabic.

ALLaM (SDAIA, Saudi Arabia) is the most openly documented and the least reachable today. Its model card describes a series "designed to advance Arabic Language Technology", declares "Language(s): Arabic, English", carries an Apache 2.0 licence, and says it was pretrained on 5.2 trillion tokens in English and Arabic [12]. The word "dialect" does not appear on it. Its consumer route could not be opened on 1 November, so the row scores 0 for the interface and 0 for where you can use it, and finishes last: the rubric rewards reach, and a blocked page shows none.

Jais (Inception42, UAE) moved this month. Its own newsroom, dated 16 October 2026, says Jais 3 "understands spoken and written Arabic across dialects, writes naturally in Arabic" [11]. The linked model page names Emirati, Moroccan, Egyptian and Jordanian Arabic in its speech section, which is what earns the dialect mark. Its agent demo shows a four-slide Arabic deck and an Arabic page that reads right to left, and the same page labels the platform "coming soon", so the file rule is scored at 10 rather than 20.

Fanar (QCRI, Qatar) is the highest of the four at 63, and it gets there on reach rather than on files. Its site serves in Arabic by default with an English switch, it calls itself an "Arabic Generative AI Platform", and its model card names "Arabic dialects, including Gulf, Levantine, and Egyptian" under an Apache 2.0 licence [9]. The site states no price, so free access rests on the open weights, not on a free tier.

Falcon (TII, UAE) names the most dialects of anyone here. Its Arabic blog post of 5 January 2026 writes that Modern Standard Arabic "coexists with dialects such as Egyptian, Levantine, Gulf, and Maghrebi", and TII also publishes Falcon-Emirati, built for Emirati Arabic, culture and context [10]. Falcon-ASR covers Emirati and Arabic speech, and Falcon-OCR-Arabic covers Arabic in images. Its chat page loads but renders nothing to a signed-out reader, so its interface, layout behaviour and price are unverified, and the row is scored on the weights.

Dialects: who names one, and who scores zero

Three of the twelve rows name an Arabic dialect on an official page: Falcon, Fanar and Jais.

Microsoft comes closest without getting there. Its right-to-left article tells you to "choose the Arabic dialect you want", then names no dialect anywhere on the page, and its language accessory pack page carries one entry, "Arabic" [5]. That is a 5, not a 10. Google is further away: "ar-SA" is a locale code with an experimental label, on a developer page about a different product, and the word dialect does not appear [4]. That is a 0.

NOXI scores 0 on this rule. It names no Arabic dialect, and a tool that has not published a dialect claim should not be credited with one. If your audience needs Gulf or Egyptian phrasing rather than Modern Standard Arabic, write that phrasing yourself or start from a model that names the dialect, and keep the file work separate from the language work.

One vendor warns against the claim outright. The Jais 13B card, which carries no date of its own, says a model "should not be presumed to have equal proficiency in other languages or dialects" [11]. That is about languages beyond Arabic and English, on an older generation of the family, and it is still the most careful sentence any vendor here wrote about dialects.

What we could not verify on 1 November, vendor by vendor

Six cells rest on an absence, each scored at the lower anchor with the absence stated rather than guessed.

• ALLaM's consumer product. humain.ai and chat.humain.ai returned 403 and allam.sdaia.gov.sa timed out, so its interface, any free tier and any country limit are unverified. R3 and R7 are 0 [12].
• Falcon's chat and the Arabic models' licence. The chat page renders no readable text signed out, and the "free of charge to download" sentence on the TII site is about Falcon 180B, not the Arabic models [10].
• The Jais chat's interface languages. jaischat.ai sends you to a language chooser whose options do not render signed out. Its cookie notice served in Arabic, which is not a language list [11].
• Jais 3's agent platform. Its own page shows an Arabic deck saved as a .pptx and labels the platform "coming soon", so R1 is 10 and not 20 [11].
• Canva's interface language list. The language-settings article explains how to change the language and lists none, so Arabic as an interface language rests on developer locale codes, and R3 stays at 5 [3].
• Gamma's interface language list. Gamma says you can switch the interface to a right-to-left language and names Arabic among them, but publishes no list, and its help centre offers fourteen languages, Arabic not among them [2].

Prices follow the same rule: only the currency and the date a vendor's page served. Gamma Plus is $9 per seat per month on annual billing, Google AI Plus $4.99 a month, Claude Pro $17 billed annually or $20 monthly, ChatGPT Plus $20 a month, and the Microsoft 365 Copilot Business add-on $25.20 a month billed monthly [2] [4] [6] [7] [5]. Where a consumer price did not render to a signed-out read, this page prints none.

What these rules don't measure

Seven rules out of 100 points miss at least eight things that could decide your choice, most of them competitor strengths.

• Dialects in practice. Falcon ships a model built for Emirati Arabic, Jais Speech is measured against Emirati, Moroccan, Egyptian and Jordanian audio, and Fanar's card names Gulf, Levantine and Egyptian. These rules give that 10 points of 100. For a Gulf audience it may decide everything.
• Arabic writing quality judged by a native reader, religious and legal accuracy, and Islamic terminology. Fanar documents a dedicated route for Islamic queries; nothing here scores how it reads.
• Arabic speech. Falcon-ASR and Jais Speech both document Arabic and Emirati transcription. No rule on this page touches audio.
• Arabic OCR as a specialism. Falcon-OCR-Arabic exists for exactly that job, and R5 counts it as one task of four.
• Local hosting and data residency. ALLaM, Jais, Falcon and Fanar publish weights you can run yourself, which no rule rewards beyond 8 points.
• Interface depth in Arabic. Microsoft mirrors menus, dialog boxes and wizards, offers find and replace that knows about kashidas, and ties the keyboard to the authoring language. Adobe Express now ships an Arabic interface on desktop, iOS and Android web.
• Mixed Arabic and Latin text. Gamma says formatting "may require manual adjustments" and Adobe Express calls mixed-direction support partial. Both are being honest about something these rules do not score.
• Pricing in Gulf currencies, support in Arabic, and the quality of Arabic templates. None is in the rubric, and all three come up in procurement.

Two limits are worth saying plainly. This is documented capability, not a new hands-on test, so a vendor that documents little may still perform well. And a page that blocks a signed-out reader scores as if the feature were absent: a fair rule applied evenly, not a judgement about the product.

Worked example: one deck, two directions

Example Lina Haddad, the fictional communications manager of a fictional consultancy in Abu Dhabi, has an English deck of 20 slides and a ministry meeting on Thursday. She needs an Arabic version: not a translation in a document, an Arabic deck with the layout turned around. Her deck has 11 text slides, 4 with a table, 3 with a timeline and 2 with a bar chart.

Check: 11 + 4 + 3 + 2 = 20 slides. Seven of the twenty, that is 35%, carry a table or a timeline, which is where mirroring is visible and where a text-only translation gives itself away. Two of twenty, 10%, are charts, the one place the mirroring stops.

Her decision. She translates the deck in a tool that documents right-to-left layout rather than in a chat window, keeps the English original as a separate file, and spends the time saved on the seven slides that mirror. In NOXI the Arabic version costs about 25 credits of the 1,000 her free account gets each month, which is 2.5%. She opens the exported .pptx once on the machine the ministry will use, because Arabic in PowerPoint can differ slightly from the browser.

Build it: turn an English deck into an Arabic one with Translate a deck

Translate a deck is a product-wide action on the NOXI home screen. It creates a separate Arabic version of the deck you attach, with right-to-left slides, mirrored timelines and tables and Arabic fonts, and you download it as an editable PowerPoint or a PDF. The English original stays as it is, because the result is a new deck rather than a linked pair.

If you already work inside ChatGPT, NOXI is listed in ChatGPT's plugin directory: open Plugins in the sidebar, search NOXI, choose Install plugin, then Connect and sign in, and call it with @NOXI. Whether you can install it depends on your plan, workspace, role and region, and the steps are on our page about the NOXI plugin for ChatGPT.

If the English deck is still to be built, our ranking of the best AI for PPT scores that work on the slide rules, and how to translate a PowerPoint covers the Office route.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best AI for Arabic?

It depends on the job. On seven printed rules checked on 1 November 2026, NOXI scores 80 of 100, Gamma 73, Canva 68 and Google Gemini 68. For Arabic text in a chat, Gemini, Claude and ChatGPT lead on documented language work. For an Arabic file with the layout turned around, the deck tools lead.

Which AI writes the best Modern Standard Arabic?

No vendor publishes a quality claim we can score, so the rules reward documentation instead. Anthropic publishes the only number: Arabic at 97.2% and 92.5% of the English score on translated MMLU, checked 1 November 2026. Google and OpenAI both list Arabic as a supported language without a quality figure.

Which AI translates Arabic best?

For files, Microsoft's Azure Translator documents Arabic for document translation and lists PowerPoint among its formats, saying it preserves the original layout, on a page dated 7 August 2026. DeepL lists pptx and Arabic as well. Both are developer services. Inside deck tools, Gamma and Canva both document translating something you already made.

Can any AI make an Arabic PowerPoint?

Yes, but not the one most people ask about. No vendor page documents a global assistant generating an Arabic presentation, checked 1 November 2026. Five rows document Arabic output with right-to-left layout: NOXI at 80 points, Gamma 73, Canva 68, Copilot with PowerPoint 65 and Adobe Express 73 as a separate row.

Does ChatGPT support Arabic?

Yes for the language and the interface. OpenAI's help centre lists Arabic among the languages ChatGPT supports, in an article updated twelve days before 1 November 2026. No OpenAI page documents Arabic or right-to-left layout inside a generated deck, so its file rule scores 10 of 20 and its total is 63.

Which AI understands Gulf or Egyptian dialect?

Three vendors name dialects on their own pages, checked 1 November 2026. Fanar's model card names Gulf, Levantine and Egyptian. Falcon names Egyptian, Levantine, Gulf and Maghrebi, and ships a model for Emirati Arabic. Jais names Emirati, Moroccan, Egyptian and Jordanian in its speech section.

What is ALLaM, and can I use it?

ALLaM is SDAIA's Arabic-first model family from Saudi Arabia. Its model card declares Arabic and English, an Apache 2.0 licence and pretraining on 5.2 trillion tokens. You can download the weights and host them. On 1 November 2026 its consumer pages returned errors, so it scores 28 of 100 here, on reach.

What is the difference between an Arabic interface and right-to-left layout?

An Arabic interface means the menus are in Arabic. Right-to-left layout means the document itself turns around: text starts at the right, tables read from the right-hand column, timelines run right to left. A tool can have one without the other, which is why they are two separate rules worth 10 points each.

Is there a free AI for Arabic?

Several, on different terms, checked 1 November 2026. NOXI gives 1,000 credits a month with no card, and a deck uses about 25. Gamma gives 400 credits at signup. Canva's free plan is US$0 with limited AI. The four Arabic-first models are open weights you host yourself.

Which AI reads Arabic from an image or a PDF?

TII publishes Falcon-OCR-Arabic for extracting Arabic text and structured content from images and documents. Azure Translator's language table marks Arabic yes as both source and target for scanned-document translation, where Hebrew is marked no. Both were checked on 1 November 2026.

Sources & methodology

Every vendor page below was opened on 1 November 2026, signed out, with no cookies accepted and no forms filled. Scores are copied from our shared November 2026 score file. Lina Haddad and her consultancy are fictional. Prices appear only in the currency a vendor's page served that day.

• [1] NOXI product documentation, 2 October 2026: full Arabic interface, right-to-left slides with mirrored timelines and direction-aware tables, four Arabic fonts in the design panel, Translate a deck among the product-wide home actions, editable .pptx with real text boxes and embedded font programs, 1,000 credits a month with no card, files up to 200 MB, research on prompt-started decks and off by default from an attached file, the connector address published on noxi.ai/connect, and its listing in ChatGPT's plugin directory.
• [2] Gamma · Does Gamma support right-to-left languages (Updated this week, read 1 November 2026); Can I translate a Gamma document; Pricing; Gamma API and MCP; checked 1 November 2026.
• [3] Canva · Translate Canva designs, with "Mirror page to match text direction"; Supported locales (ar, ar-EG, ar-SA, ar-AE); App localization; Pricing; Download file types; checked 1 November 2026.
• [4] Google · Gemini Apps supported languages; Google Workspace with Gemini language support (last updated 26 October 2026); Right-to-left languages in Docs, Sheets and Slides; Cloud Translation language support, ar-SA experimental; Gemini plans and prices; checked 1 November 2026.
• [5] Microsoft · Using right-to-left languages in Office; Microsoft Copilot supported languages (last updated September 2026); Language accessory pack; Copilot business pricing; Azure Translator language support; Azure Translator document translation overview (7 August 2026); Developing OpenType fonts for Arabic script; Embed fonts in presentations; checked 1 November 2026.
• [6] Anthropic · Multilingual support, Arabic 97.2% and 92.5% on translated MMLU; Pricing; checked 1 November 2026.
• [7] OpenAI · Language setting in ChatGPT (updated 12 days before 1 November 2026); Free tier FAQ; Slides in ChatGPT; ChatGPT for PowerPoint; Plus price; checked 1 November 2026.
• [8] Adobe · Adobe Express what's new, August 2026 release (page last updated 5 October 2026); Supported languages (3 September 2026); Known issues, right-to-left support partial (23 October 2026); Translate requirements (19 October 2026); checked 1 November 2026.
• [9] Fanar, QCRI · Fanar, Arabic Generative AI Platform; Fanar model card, Gulf, Levantine and Egyptian named; checked 1 November 2026.
• [10] Falcon, TII · Falcon-H1-Arabic (5 January 2026), dialects named; Falcon-Emirati; Falcon models, including Falcon-OCR-Arabic; checked 1 November 2026.
• [11] Jais, IFM and Inception42 · Jais 3 launch (16 October 2026); Jais, with Emirati, Moroccan, Egyptian and Jordanian named; Jais family 13B chat model card; checked 1 November 2026.
• [12] ALLaM, SDAIA · ALLaM 7B Instruct preview model card, 5.2 trillion tokens, Apache 2.0; checked 1 November 2026.
• [13] DeepL · Supported languages, Arabic; Document translation, pptx; checked 1 November 2026.
• [14] Contrast rows, not scored · SlidesAI supported languages, app not translated to Arabic; Decktopus, Arabic in its language list; MagicSlides, 136+ languages; checked 1 November 2026.

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