Google’s Opal will end your excuses
Google is expanding access to Opal, its AI app-building tool, to 15 more countries, including Canada, India, Japan, and Brazil.
The app lets anyone create small web apps just by typing what they want, no coding required.
When Opal first launched in the U.S., Google expected people to build simple, fun tools.
Instead, users created surprisingly smart and creative apps, which pushed the company to open it up to more people around the world.
Once you describe the kind of app you want, Opal uses Google’s AI models to make it for you.
You can then open a visual editor to see how each part works, adjust prompts, or add new steps.
Once you’re happy with it, you can publish your app and share it through a link so others can try it out too.
Google has also added a few upgrades to make things smoother:
You can now go through workflows step by step, with errors showing directly where they happen.
Creating a new app now takes just a few seconds instead of longer waits.
Complex workflows can now run multiple steps at the same time.
Building apps is the new journaling
With these updates, Opal strengthens Google’s spot in the growing “no-code” space, joining tools like Canva, Figma, and Replit, which help non-developers design and build apps easily.
Imagine telling 2010 you that you’d be building apps with a sentence.