A project management tool built right-to-left — not translated after the fact

Why translated tools break in Arabic, Urdu, and Hebrew

If your team works in a right-to-left language, you already know the feeling. You type a task name in Arabic, mix in an English product name or a number, and the line scrambles. The interface stays left-to-right even though your text isn't — boards, menus, and cards all read the wrong way. It works — barely — but it never feels built for you.

This isn't a rare complaint. It's one of the most common feature requests on the major tools' own forums, year after year:

The reason is structural. Real right-to-left support isn't a translated string file. It's mirrored navigation, mirrored tables and cards, correctly-placed icons and buttons, and bidirectional text handling so an Arabic task title with an English product name in the middle renders the way a native speaker reads it. Tools that add Arabic as a late-stage translation skip all of that — so the layout feels broken even when the words are right.

What "built for every direction" actually means

Artala was designed for right-to-left and multilingual teams from day one. The difference shows up everywhere:

• True RTL layout, not a flipped skin — navigation, boards, tables, task cards, dialogs, kanban drag-and-drop, and date pickers all mirror correctly.
• Bidirectional text isolation — mixed Arabic-English and Urdu-English content, numbers, and technical terms are wrapped so they render coherently instead of scrambling the line.
• A native Hijri (Umm al-Qura) calendar — available in every language, not just Arabic. Toggle Gregorian and Hijri per user; an English-speaking manager and an Arabic-speaking teammate see the same project, each in their own calendar.
• Configurable weekends — Friday/Saturday, Thursday/Friday, Friday-only, or whatever your region uses; the calendar and timesheets shade non-working days accordingly.
• Per-user language and direction — everyone on the same workspace runs the app in their own language, and the shared content (task titles, comments, descriptions) renders correctly for each reader's direction at the same time. No one is forced into someone else's.

The same board, two languages, two calendars

This is one capacity board in Artala — the identical project, the same data — shown to two teammates in their own language and calendar system:

How Artala compares for multilingual teams

The big tools are capable, but they were built English-first. Here's where it matters for a right-to-left or multilingual team:

Artala is an independent product and isn't affiliated with Asana, Trello, or Monday.com. Comparisons reflect right-to-left and multilingual capability specifically; each tool has its own strengths.

Built for Pakistan, the Gulf, and beyond

Artala covers the languages most project tools treat as afterthoughts: Arabic, Urdu, Hebrew, Persian, Kurdish Sorani, Pashto, and Sindhi with full RTL, plus Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Indonesian, Malay, and more. Whether your team is in Lahore, Riyadh, Dubai, Karachi, or Jakarta, the interface, the calendar, and the emails all speak your language.

Arabic, Urdu, Hebrew, Hindi, Indonesian, Malay, Portuguese (Brazil), French, and English are professionally native-reviewed. Other languages are available in beta as native review continues.

And the localization engine is built into the product — not bolted on. If your language or regional dialect isn't covered yet, we want to hear about it; adding one is part of how Artala is meant to grow.