Opal User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience64.8% of reviews
Neutral8.2% of reviews
Negative experience27.0% of reviews

~ Based on 5,205 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Opal Safe?

Opal: Screen Time Control appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Opal is 94/100.

This assessment is based on 85,396 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.7/5.

Safety Analysis

93.5% of ratings point to a safe experience
2.0% of ratings suggest some concerns
4.6% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 85,396 App Store ratings for Opal.

Is Opal Legit?

Opal: Screen Time Control appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Opal is 83/100.

Based on 83 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Adoro, MAS está complicado

Gosto muito do app, me ajuda muito. Mas recentemente mudou a interface e está muito confuso. Não consegui encontrar um modo férias, tive que deletar o app. Quando voltar a trabalhar eu baixo novamente. Sugiro voltar com a interface antiga pois as coisas mudaram de lugar e não se encontra nada

Reset of the blocking app

This isn't the first time I've encountered this problem where I unblocked an app that had reached its limit, and almost immediately afterward it gets blocked again. Please fix this.

Helped a lot

Nice

SO buggy

great app, when it actually works. SO buggy and frustrating- app quits out and just freezes/stops working while using…

Update ruined a good thing

This app was one of my favorites and I had planned to pay for the premium version once school started again. Unfortunately a recent update made it nearly unusable. It would either cancel the rules that I had which would result in me having more screen time than planned or it would restart the rule I had just paused every 30 seconds, locking me out of my apps when I didn’t want it to. I went from recommending the app to everyone to deleting the app in just over a month and the last month was painful. Hoping to find a better alternative.
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Plagued with issues since redesign

This app used to be great, but ever since the redesign, it constantly freezes so often that it’s become completely non-functional.

Used to be good

This used to help a lot, it did its purpose and that’s what I liked about it. A few months ago it started to get really buggy and laggy, I would get on my phone for the first time in the day and it would block all my apps saying I reached my time limit, when I went to undo this, resetting blocks didn’t work, so I had to get more time and that was always really laggy. It would also block my apps when I still had an hour before it should’ve blocked it, and honestly if an app that’s only designed to do this and it fails that’s just stupid. This would happen every single time and it’s very annoying. The new update also ruined a lot of things, I can’t see me actuall screen time anymore, can’t manage blocks easily, it’s just terrible. I bet this is on purpose cause you want people to pay for premium to unlock the best experience. Honestly if you really wanna manage your screen time just use apple screen time and use some discipline
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Decaiu

O app tem uma proposta incrível. Porém após algumas atualizações a UI está muito pesada, meu celular não é tão recente mas rodava a versão antiga tranquilamente

Disappointed with the update

I have used this for the past two years to block my focus, but with the most recent update this was removed. My day to day is very unpredictable so I do need this rather than time frames it restricts.

Control Freak

This app blocked so many apps that I rely on and not just the ones I wanted to take daily breaks from. I’m in a year contract and I wish I could just get rid of it.

Not great since the update

worked great until my 270ish day streak stopped and then reset to zero. I've also faced many issues following their most recent update unfortunately.

Better screen time and sleep

This app has helped me a lot with my sleep and doesn’t let me rot around, any other device I have is an old android or just doesn’t work properly so this is really good if you’re trying to help yourself with better screen time. Thank you opal for making this possible, and I hope the same happens for the people reading this review.
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Bro

I got this app a while ago and now I don’t need it anymore and I can’t delete it without using my screen time password that I don’t know I’ve looked in setting and everything but I don’t know it and I can’t delete frickin opal

ÓTIMO!

App cumpre o que propõe, ele realmente torna mais dificultoso e diminuiu muito meu tempo de tela!

Not Reliable

I had it for a while but one day I woke up and everything that I had blocked was missing. It took me a while to add the blocks and I’m not happy about paying for something that’s not reliable so I deleted it.

Lost info

I had my phone on hard block and could not unblock my app. I had to respond to an email, but I was unable to do so in my hard block. So I deleted the app in order to respond to said email.I reinstalled it thr next day but all of my rules, all of my history was gone. Most applications when you delete the app and sign back in, all of the information is saved under your account, but this is not the case.
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Used to be great

The app used to be amazing, simple, straightforward.
You cannot tell the Opal if an app is distracting or not, it counts my time on Teams call the same than my time in Instagram.
I really miss those features and being able to exclude some apps from my screen time. Will look for a new app.

Was good. Was.

This app was great before their latest big update. Now it’s missing features, ridiculously slow, and fails to do what it’s supposed to do half the time.

The new update is so ANNOYING!!

Everything is slow and glitchy and so insanely annoying to use?? when ever i unblock an app, opal seems to forget and block the app mid break? anytime i try to scroll or click on a button it takes 5 or more seconds to load.

Cant Delete

You cant delete this app??????