Languages and appearance

Interface languages

Fourteen of the 15 languages are written right to left, and the whole popup and settings page flip with them.

Language	Name shown in the picker	Author's rating	Strings still in English
English	English	Source language	0
Persian	فارسی	Marked as reviewed	0
Arabic	العربية	Marked as reviewed	0
Hebrew	עברית	Marked as reviewed	0
Urdu	اردو	High confidence	0
Pashto	پښتو	Good	8
Central Kurdish	کوردیی ناوەندی	Good	8
Sindhi	سنڌي	Lowest confidence	8
Uyghur	ئۇيغۇرچە	Good	8
Yiddish	ייִדיש	High confidence	8
Western Punjabi	پنجابی (شاہمُکھی)	Strongest of the five newer ones	8
South Azerbaijani	تۆرکجه	Draft, needs native review	8
Saraiki	سرائیکی	Draft, needs native review	8
Balochi	بلوچی	Draft, needs native review	8
Kashmiri	کٲشُر	Draft, needs native review	8

The rating column is the author's own assessment, taken from the source. No translation was checked by an independent native speaker for this guide. If you can improve one, use the translation fix form (opens in a new tab) or send a pull request.

How the language is chosen

1. The language you pick in UI language on the settings page , if you have picked one.
2. Otherwise, your browser's language, if it is one of the 15 (a region such as fa-IR is reduced to fa ).
3. Otherwise, English.

A missing translation falls back to English, word by word.

Text the browser shows

A few strings are not part of the page: the extension's name and description on the extensions page, the shortcut's label and the right-click menu item. These come from the browser's own translation system. They exist in English, Persian, Arabic, Hebrew, Urdu, Pashto, Central Kurdish, Sindhi, Uyghur and Yiddish. For Western Punjabi, South Azerbaijani, Saraiki, Balochi and Kashmiri the browser shows English there.

The chat itself

The interface language has nothing to do with the language of your chats. RTLY decides each message's direction from its own text, in any language, whatever the interface language is.

Themes

Choose light, dark or system from the popup menu or the settings header. With system, RTLY follows your operating system. The theme applies to RTLY's own pages; it does not change the chat sites.

Color palettes

Teal is the default. Blue, indigo and neutral (gray) change only the accent color. Pick one in the popup menu or in Color palette on the settings page.

This guide

This guide has a light and a dark theme too (the button in the header). Its home page, installation page, quick start and privacy page are also available in Persian.