Teachable is $39/month but was never built for Arabic trainers.
Mentevo gives you native Arabic, MENA payments, and 27 AI tools — at a price that makes sense for Egypt.
Mentevo vs Teachable
An honest comparison. No claims — just facts.
| Feature | Mentevo | Teachable |
|---|---|---|
| Arabic RTL interface | Native | |
| Egyptian payment gateways | Kashier, Paymob | |
| EGP pricing | ||
| Vodafone Cash / mobile wallets | ||
| WhatsApp automation | ||
| AI course builder | 27 tools | Basic |
| Sales page builder | ||
| Course bundles | ||
| 1:1 Consultation booking | ||
| Bilingual certificates | ||
| Custom domain | Growth+ | |
| 14-day free trial | ||
| Starting price (USD) | $49/mo | $39/mo |
What Mentevo adds that Teachable doesn't
Essential features for anyone selling to an Arabic-speaking audience.
Arabic RTL interface
A full Arabic UI with right-to-left layout. Teachable has none.
Egyptian payment gateways
Kashier, Paymob, and Alex Bank built in for local card and instalment payments.
Vodafone Cash and Orange Money
The mobile-wallet methods most Egyptian students actually pay with.
WhatsApp automation
Drip messages, course reminders, and one-click student outreach over WhatsApp.
Bilingual certificates
Beautiful Arabic typography on every certificate — not a Latin-only fallback.
AI tools in Arabic (27 modules)
Course outlines, quiz generation, video transcription — all in Arabic.
Sales page templates in Arabic
Ready-to-customise landing pages that read and convert in Arabic.
1:1 consultation booking
Built-in calendar with Arabic dates so coaches can sell time alongside courses.
Pricing in EGP
List and charge in Egyptian Pounds — no forced USD conversion fees for your students.
What Teachable does well
Let's be fair — not everything is bad.
Good video hosting
Reliable delivery and playback.
Simple interface
Easy to get started and publish a course quickly.
Established community
Large user base with plenty of resources and tutorials.
Where Teachable falls short for MENA trainers
These aren't minor gaps — they're fundamental things your students need that the platform doesn't offer.
No Arabic interface
Every menu, button, and notification is English-only. Arabic-first students churn fast.
With Mentevo
Mentevo ships with a fully translated Arabic UI — every screen, every email, every error message.
No RTL layout
Arabic text displays left-to-right, which looks broken and unprofessional to your students.
With Mentevo
Mentevo is RTL-native: layouts, icons, animations all flip correctly so Arabic content reads as intended.
No Egyptian payment gateways
No Kashier, no Paymob, no Egypt e-wallets. Card-only checkout that many Egyptian buyers can't complete.
With Mentevo
Kashier and Paymob are first-class. Add Egypt e-wallets, instalments, and bank transfer with one click.
No EGP pricing
Students must pay in USD and absorb 3-5% conversion fees on top of the course price.
With Mentevo
List in EGP, charge in EGP, settle in EGP — no surprise FX surcharges for your students.
No mobile wallet support
Vodafone Cash and Orange Money — the most common payment methods in Egypt — are unavailable.
With Mentevo
Mentevo accepts Vodafone Cash, Orange Money, and other MENA mobile wallets out of the box.
No WhatsApp integration
The main communication channel in MENA is completely ignored. Email open rates here are low.
With Mentevo
Built-in WhatsApp automation: enrolment confirmations, lesson reminders, marketing drips, support.
No sales page builder or course bundles
You need third-party tools (and extra subscriptions) for what should ship with the platform.
With Mentevo
Sales page builder, course bundles, upsells, and order bumps are all included on every plan.
How to migrate from Teachable
Export your content
Export your courses and content from Teachable (CSV, video files, PDFs).
Create a Mentevo account
Create a Mentevo account — you get 14 days free, no credit card required.
Move content over
Use our import tools or contact support to move your content over.
Point your custom domain
Point your custom domain to Mentevo (takes 5 minutes).
Notify your students
Send your students a quick email with the new login link.
Frequently asked questions
Yes, and we have done it at scale. We moved an Egyptian academy off Teachable in 48 hours: 13 courses and 1,772 lessons, with every student and their progress intact. Teachable exports do not include your video files, so our team pulls the media and rebuilds the course structure for you.
The number one reason is Arabic. Teachable has no right-to-left interface, so Arabic-speaking students get a broken left-to-right experience. Add USD-only checkout with no Paymob, Fawry, or Vodafone Cash, plus the 5% transaction fee on the Teachable Basic plan, and MENA creators lose both students and margin at checkout.
Teachable Basic is 39 USD per month but takes 5% of every sale. Mentevo Starter is 49 USD per month with zero transaction fees and local pricing from EGP 1,500 per month. On real revenue, dropping the 5% fee usually outweighs the 10 USD difference within the first month.
You gain native Arabic RTL, Egyptian payment gateways (Kashier, Paymob, Fawry, Vodafone Cash), WhatsApp automation, bilingual certificates, and 27 AI tools that work in Arabic. Teachable has a polished video player and many US-centric integrations; if your audience is American those are nice, but if your audience is in MENA then local payments and Arabic matter far more.
No. Keep Teachable live, build everything on Mentevo, then point your domain over and message your students, with zero downtime. You can even import your old Teachable landing pages using the Import HTML button in the page builder.
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