ITS AWESOME
it brought down my screen time from 8 hours to 3 hours!!!
Let me use the app
I wanted to see how this app works but instead I'm sitting here tapping my screen nonstop hoping to actually get in the app while I'm forced to go through its self-aggrandizing intro that pushes along at a snails pace.
Buggy Mess with horrible Support and a Scam
The app used to be decent until they had a massive UI overhaul and update which is fine if the app still worked, constant crashes, where for months I couldn’t get past the loading screen. Then I got charged the yearly renewal which I imperially went to cancel and try to get a refund for. However despite the support page saying to contact their email they never responded and instead cancelled my pro membership instead, without first even giving the refund or ever contacting me back. Overall this app and company are horrible with a buggy mess of an app. They are many better, free alternatives. I highly recommend skipping on Opal. Just keep in mind if you ever feel like buying the subscription in a few months you may not even be able to use the app anymore.
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Nice concept, janky app
The app is insanely buggy. From onboarding on, it’s been inventing stats that don’t match Screen Time in iOS settings (and I don’t know why it even thinks it’s useful to show a “trend” 37 minutes after download). On top of that, the block lists are unreliable: sometimes Reddit is blocked as a social app, other times it’s not; sometimes Messages is blocked despite being marked Allow. The whole thing reeks of style without substance.
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This app has helped me a ton!! The only tricky part is when you don't have the budget for pro, you kinda get into the bad habit of unblocking it still... (me personally). Anyway, I'm working on it :) I highly recommend. 10/10
Helpful, but annoying
The app comes with no instructions, no way to figure out how to manage it. I could not figure out how to get my work day rule on vacation mode. I got so mad I deleted and cancelled the subscription. I loved the strict app blocking but there’s not even a FAQ section. Poor design in my mind. I also hated how it called things time wasters that weren’t. For example, I have a focus music app I use a lot, Opal has this big frame that’s calculating how much time I wasted listening to it and what I could have done instead… when it’s literally the kind of app you put on while you’re doing useful things. I think I can get a more striaghtforward app blocker that’s more user friendly, and probably less expensive.
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Most annoying UI/UX to deal with
I will be making my own app without the gimmicks and deleting this when sub is over.
Steal your data then ask for a credit card, before even setting up
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What is other in screentime
Im getting like extra hours of screen time because of the other tab. Which just straight up not real. And it wont let me excuse it. Please fix
Used to be great
I used this app for over a year and I felt like it was really helping me. Unfortunately after a recent update I find it unusable. It constantly glitches and says that my apps are blocked when they aren’t and I can fully access them. Other times the opposite problem happens where I can’t open apps after the set times I have to block them is over. The format of the app is also confusing and unorganized after this update. I will be deleting the app and finding another one. Very disappointing after my long streak.
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Best app lowkey…
I’ve been using this for a year+ and it hasn’t disappointed, the only thing I wish they’d add is the option where I can use it for a maximum of 5min then it locks for 10 and so on. It was here before the previous update but it’s bugging rn.
新uiが改悪だからどうにかしてほしい
新しいuiになってからバグが増え、時間制限を解除したはずなのにその後すぐに制限がかかったり、画面が固まったりしている。
そもそもこのuiになって使いやすくなったわけでもなく、個人的には完全に無意味な「ホームタブ」が追加されたせいでいちいち移動しないといけなくなった。さらに制限を解除するボタンの真下に早期終了ボタンがあるせいで制限をかける意味がほとんどない。
またui以外でも最近youtubeアプリに制限をかけてyoutube musicのサイトを常に許可に設定したのにもかかわらずサイトが開けない、ということもあった。
去年このアプリを入れた時はいい感じだったのに、使うに連れてどんどん使いづらくなってきている。
そもそもこのuiになって使いやすくなったわけでもなく、個人的には完全に無意味な「ホームタブ」が追加されたせいでいちいち移動しないといけなくなった。さらに制限を解除するボタンの真下に早期終了ボタンがあるせいで制限をかける意味がほとんどない。
またui以外でも最近youtubeアプリに制限をかけてyoutube musicのサイトを常に許可に設定したのにもかかわらずサイトが開けない、ということもあった。
去年このアプリを入れた時はいい感じだったのに、使うに連れてどんどん使いづらくなってきている。
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Used to be great
Used to love this app as a really easy to use, silent app that I setup once and didn’t have to fiddle with.
With the new update that came with IOS26 and a facelift, with my iPhone 12 (I was still on IOS18), became super slow and buggy. I gave it a pass as it’s an old phone.
But even with the iPhone 15PM, it’s no longer laggy, but there’s a new bug and glitch every other day. Streaks have stopped working, daily limit keep glitching, resetting a rule sometimes doesn’t reset.
It overall functioned and looked better before facelift which is disappointing.
With the new update that came with IOS26 and a facelift, with my iPhone 12 (I was still on IOS18), became super slow and buggy. I gave it a pass as it’s an old phone.
But even with the iPhone 15PM, it’s no longer laggy, but there’s a new bug and glitch every other day. Streaks have stopped working, daily limit keep glitching, resetting a rule sometimes doesn’t reset.
It overall functioned and looked better before facelift which is disappointing.
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Reccomend
So good dude im literally addicted to going on my phone and ive had 23 hour screen time a few times before and im starting to improve
Locks app onto phone before asking for money
If you allow this app to interact with your apple screen time and you have a password set, it will essentially be stuck on your phone before telling you that it’s only a free trial.
Terrible
I can’t use the focus button in the app or the rules, when I hold down the commit button a paywall pops up and the block is never applied. Fix your app
Buggy and causes iOS problems
I rarely write reviews, I think this is my second review of an app in over a decade. Your app is so buggy and beyond a joke for the cost that I felt compelled to write this.
The fundamental feature is flawed. Opal has no idea in real time how long you’ve been using an app. Yesterday it thought I had been using Instagram for over 30 mins and locked me out, despite iOS screen time and the Opal app itself only showing 26 mins. Today I used Instagram for 50 mins with the same 30 min rule. The block came in 20 mins late. I wished to continue using Instagram, so I had to wait to unlock it. I went back to Instagram and was immediately blocked. This happened 4 times in a row. Opal forces you to wait to unlock. That’s great, but not when I’ve had to do it 4 times in a minute because your own app doesn’t know how to run its fundamental service.
The cherry on top is my spotlight search started bugging out for the first time in the two years I’ve had this phone. I swipe down to search for an app, the keyboard won’t show, the search bar is all black. My phone will then freeze and I have to lock it. Uninstalling the Opal app fixed this.
In the 5 mins I’ve been writing this review, I received two notifications from Opal saying “I’ve hit my daily limit” on Instagram (the rule). I AM LITERALLY IN THE APP STORE.
I am genuinely baffled this company goes so hard on advertising a polished product when it’s beyond bugged and broken.
I feel scammed that they offer a 30 day trial at $6 or three days free then $15/monthly or $104/yearly. Obviously the $6 is more appealing in terms of wishing to try something for longer than three days before paying 3x to 20x that amount.
In hindsight, I’m glad I paid $6 over $104 (as I have passed my three days trial and wanted to try this for at least a week), but I still feel scammed that I paid for such a flawed app.
For what it’s worth I tried contacting support but this AI bot kept agreeing with how frustrating it must be. Yes it is frustrating.
The fundamental feature is flawed. Opal has no idea in real time how long you’ve been using an app. Yesterday it thought I had been using Instagram for over 30 mins and locked me out, despite iOS screen time and the Opal app itself only showing 26 mins. Today I used Instagram for 50 mins with the same 30 min rule. The block came in 20 mins late. I wished to continue using Instagram, so I had to wait to unlock it. I went back to Instagram and was immediately blocked. This happened 4 times in a row. Opal forces you to wait to unlock. That’s great, but not when I’ve had to do it 4 times in a minute because your own app doesn’t know how to run its fundamental service.
The cherry on top is my spotlight search started bugging out for the first time in the two years I’ve had this phone. I swipe down to search for an app, the keyboard won’t show, the search bar is all black. My phone will then freeze and I have to lock it. Uninstalling the Opal app fixed this.
In the 5 mins I’ve been writing this review, I received two notifications from Opal saying “I’ve hit my daily limit” on Instagram (the rule). I AM LITERALLY IN THE APP STORE.
I am genuinely baffled this company goes so hard on advertising a polished product when it’s beyond bugged and broken.
I feel scammed that they offer a 30 day trial at $6 or three days free then $15/monthly or $104/yearly. Obviously the $6 is more appealing in terms of wishing to try something for longer than three days before paying 3x to 20x that amount.
In hindsight, I’m glad I paid $6 over $104 (as I have passed my three days trial and wanted to try this for at least a week), but I still feel scammed that I paid for such a flawed app.
For what it’s worth I tried contacting support but this AI bot kept agreeing with how frustrating it must be. Yes it is frustrating.
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Best app
It’s the best app for blocking apps i really recommend this app for you
Good
It’s actually so good because there is no pay wall and it’s just perfect
The new user interface broke the app
I got this app at the end of last year and it worked fantastically. I paid for a year long subscription, that’s how impressed I was in the way it worked. The new UI came out month ago and the app hasn’t functioned well since. They focused on a complete face lift of the app and got rid of the basic functions that made it great. Rules won’t kick in until I remember I’m supposed to have a time limit and kick myself off, which defeats the purpose. Scheduled blocks won’t shut apps off if I’m already on the app when the block turns on. Blocks don’t turn off automatically until I refresh Opal. I keep holding out hope that a new update will make the app work like it’s supposed to again, but it’s been months of this now. I want a refund on this expensive subscription and to find something else.
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