Comparison

A beautiful survey in Arabic, without rebuilding it in Arabic.

Typeform made survey design something people enjoy, and that is a real achievement. This page is about what happens when the survey has to work in Arabic, carry your own address, and be answered on a slow phone at a counter.

An Arabic-first alternative to Typeform

Here

كم عدد الموظفين في منشأتك؟

٤٥ موظفًا

The numeral keeps its place and the text starts from the right.

In Latin-first tools

كم عدد الموظفين في منشأتك؟

موظفًا 45

The text starts from the left and the numeral loses its unit.

The difference, row by row

Aspect
Aspect	Jawab	Typeform
How a survey is presented	YesA page the respondent can see the whole of, scroll back through and finish at their own pace. That suits a rating grid, a long intake and anyone answering at a counter with someone waiting behind them.	YesOne question at a time, as an interview. It is genuinely lovely for a short consumer survey, and it is a different thing rather than a worse one.
Two languages in one survey	YesArabic and English live on the same question, in the same survey, behind the same link. You write both once and the respondent chooses.	NoSurvey content is authored in one language at a time; a second language is a second version to write, publish and keep in step.
Arabic typography and mirroring	YesOne typeface covers Arabic and Latin, so a bilingual question does not change personality halfway through, and every layout mirrors rather than being flipped by the browser.	In partAn international product whose type and layout were designed for Latin script first, with right-to-left added to that foundation.
What a response costs you	YesResponses beyond your plan's allowance are still accepted and still counted — a survey never turns a respondent away because of the account behind it. The surplus simply waits until the plan is raised.	In partResponse allowances are part of the plan, as they are with most survey products. Check the current numbers on their own pricing page rather than here — they change, and a page that quotes them goes stale.
Ready-made Arabic starting points	YesA library written in Arabic first, by people who would send these surveys — not an English library run through a translator.	NoA large, well-made template gallery, authored in English.

How a survey is presented

Jawab

A page the respondent can see the whole of, scroll back through and finish at their own pace. That suits a rating grid, a long intake and anyone answering at a counter with someone waiting behind them.

Typeform

One question at a time, as an interview. It is genuinely lovely for a short consumer survey, and it is a different thing rather than a worse one.

Two languages in one survey

Jawab

Arabic and English live on the same question, in the same survey, behind the same link. You write both once and the respondent chooses.

Typeform

Survey content is authored in one language at a time; a second language is a second version to write, publish and keep in step.

Arabic typography and mirroring

Jawab

One typeface covers Arabic and Latin, so a bilingual question does not change personality halfway through, and every layout mirrors rather than being flipped by the browser.

Typeform

An international product whose type and layout were designed for Latin script first, with right-to-left added to that foundation.

What a response costs you

Jawab

Responses beyond your plan's allowance are still accepted and still counted — a survey never turns a respondent away because of the account behind it. The surplus simply waits until the plan is raised.

Typeform

Response allowances are part of the plan, as they are with most survey products. Check the current numbers on their own pricing page rather than here — they change, and a page that quotes them goes stale.

Ready-made Arabic starting points

Jawab

A library written in Arabic first, by people who would send these surveys — not an English library run through a translator.

Typeform

A large, well-made template gallery, authored in English.

What the marks meanYesYesIn partIn partNoNo

What the other one does better

Typeform

The one-question-at-a-time experience is still the best of its kind, and for a short, consumer-facing survey it will out-convert a page every time.

A very large integration ecosystem, which matters if the answers have to arrive inside a tool you already run.

A level of visual polish and motion design that many teams will simply prefer, and preference is a legitimate reason to choose a tool.

Templates for what you use it for today

Net promoter score (NPS) survey Customer satisfaction survey Event registration survey Employee engagement survey

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