⚡ Translation in the United Arab Emirates

Website translation software allows users to make content accessible in multiple languages, enabling sites to serve a global audience.

The United Arab Emirates is a Western Asian country with a population of over 10 million people.

According to our statistics, translation software is detected on 9.4% of websites from the United Arab Emirates.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top translation software on websites in the United Arab Emirates in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is WPML with an impressive share of 33.5%, followed by GlotPress with 19.9% and GTranslate with 16.1%.

WPML 33.5%
GlotPress 19.9%
GTranslate 16.1%
Google Translate 14.3%
Polylang 9.8%
TranslatePress 4.5%
Weglot 3.4%
Google Cloud Translation 2.8%
i18next 0.8%
qTranslate-X 0.5%
Microsoft Translator 0.3%
qTranslate-XT 0.3%

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top software that is more popular in the United Arab Emirates than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

1. WPML ^(-1)
3. GTranslate ^(-2)
9. i18next ^(-2)
11. Microsoft Translator ^(-4)

✨ Best Translation Software

Below is a more detailed list of 12 translation software solutions used on sites from the United Arab Emirates, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	WPML Hong Kong A multilingual WordPress plugin that helps users translate websites and WooCommerce stores into multiple languages from a single dashboard. €39+/year	33.5%
2	GlotPress An open-source WordPress plugin that lets you set up your own collaborative, web-based software translation tool. FreeOpen source	19.9%
3	GTranslate Coral Springs, Florida, United States A service that makes websites multilingual by offering automatic machine translation. Free$9.99+/month	16.1%
4	Google Translate Mountain View, California, United States A free multilingual translation service that supports over 240 languages. Free	14.3%
5	Polylang Bourgoin Jallieu, France A WordPress plugin that helps users translate posts, pages, media, categories, tags, widgets, navigation menus, and more. FreeOpen source€99+	9.8%
6	TranslatePress Timișoara, Romania A WordPress translation plugin that lets site owners create multilingual websites by translating all content directly from a front-end visual interface. FreeOpen source€99+/year	4.5%
7	Weglot Paris, France A website translation solution designed to automatically detect, translate, and display your website in over 110 languages. Free$17+/month	3.4%
8	Google Cloud Translation Mountain View, California, United States An AI-powered machine translation service offered by Google. Free tier$$$	2.8%
9	i18next An internationalization framework written in and for JavaScript. FreeOpen source	0.8%
10	qTranslate-X A discontinued WordPress plugin used for managing dynamic multilingual content on websites. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.5%
11	Microsoft Translator Redmond, Washington, United States A cloud-based multilingual machine translation service developed by Microsoft that enables translation of text, speech, images, and multi-device conversations. Free$$$	0.3%
12	qTranslate-XT A WordPress plugin that is maintained and developed as an extended version of the discontinued qTranslate-X plugin. FreeOpen source	0.3%

👉 See Also

🌎 Translation in other countries
- Iraq
- Kuwait
- Qatar

Data is based on the analysis of 8,313 websites from the United Arab Emirates.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.