Virtual try-on in Arabic

Arabic shoppers and your product pages

Arabic is written right to left, and that single fact shapes everything about an Arabic storefront. Layouts mirror: navigation, product galleries, and checkout flows flip direction, and any interface element that assumes left-to-right reading can break visibly. The script is cursive by design — letters connect and change shape depending on their position in a word — so fonts that handle Arabic shaping properly are essential. Written commerce content typically uses Modern Standard Arabic, which is understood across the many countries of the Middle East and North Africa where Arabic is official, even though spoken dialects vary considerably between regions.

What Looksy's language support covers

The Looksy listing on the Shopify App Store enumerates 47 supported languages, and Arabic is one of them. The listing stops there — it does not publish whether translation reaches the shopper-facing try-on widget, the merchant dashboard, or both, and for a right-to-left language the difference matters. Treat it as something to test, not assume: run the full try-on flow on an Arabic storefront using the Free plan before you promote the feature to shoppers. The reassuring part is that the result itself is a picture. A photo of the shopper wearing your product reads identically in any direction and any language.

Setting up for Arabic-speaking shoppers

Publish Arabic as a store language in Shopify settings and make sure your theme supports right-to-left layout — not every theme does this well, and it is your theme, not the app, that controls page direction. Looksy adds its try-on block through a theme app extension, dropped in from the theme editor with no theme code edits, and it uninstalls cleanly. Once the block is live on an Arabic product page, use the Free plan's unlimited try-ons to walk the flow yourself. Check that button microcopy displays correctly, that the widget sits sensibly in a mirrored layout, and that nothing renders as disconnected letterforms.

The try-on flow in any language

Whatever direction the page reads, the try-on works the same way. A shopper uploads a single photo; roughly 20 seconds later the result appears on the product page. There is nothing to install and no account to create — no camera permission either, since it works from an uploaded photo. Shoppers can retry, give feedback, download the image, or share it. The Free plan carries unlimited try-ons with Looksy branding; paid plans are Starter at $14.99 a month, Growth at $29, and Scale at $79. Video try-on — Looksy's Realtime video feature — is available on Scale. Billing runs through Shopify on usage, with no contracts.

Sources: the public Shopify App Store listing for Looksy, which enumerates all 47 supported languages. Last checked 29 July 2026.