Google expands access to AI vibecoding app Opal to 15 more countries. The app, which lets you create mini web apps using text prompts, is currently available in Canada, India, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Indonesia, Brazil, Singapore, Colombia, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama, Honduras, Argentina, and Pakistan.
“When we opened Opal to users in the US, we expected them to build simple and fun tools,” Megan Li, senior product manager at Google Labs, said in a blog post. “Instead, we didn’t expect to see a proliferation of elegant, practical, and highly creative Opal apps. The ingenuity of these early adopters made one thing clear: Opal needs to get into the hands of more creators around the world.”
Opal works by letting users enter a description of the app they want to create, and then the tool uses various Google models to do so. Once the app is ready, users can open the editor panel to view and customize the visual workflow of input, output, and generation steps. Click on any step to review or edit the prompt, or use Opal’s toolbar to manually add new steps. Users can also publish their apps to the web and share the link so others can test them with their Google Accounts.
In addition to enhancements, Google also announced improvements to Opal.
The tech giant said it has improved its debugging program but intentionally left it no-code. Users can now step through workflows in the visual editor and adjust specific steps in the console. Errors are displayed where they occur, providing immediate context and eliminating guesswork.
Google also says it has significantly improved Opal’s core performance. The company notes that it previously took up to five seconds or more to create a new opal. This time, we’ve improved its speed to make it easier to get started. Additionally, users will be able to run steps in parallel, allowing complex workflows with multiple steps to run simultaneously.
With Opal’s launch in the U.S. in July, Google joins a growing list of competitors including Canva, Figma, and Replit that are building tools that allow non-technical users to design app prototypes without writing code.
