Google is expanding its AI app-building tool, Opal, to 15 additional countries, allowing users to create mini web apps through text prompts.
The move comes after strong user adoption in the U.S., where Opal’s intuitive design sparked a wave of creative app development.
The latest rollout brings Opal to new markets including Canada, India, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Indonesia, Brazil, Singapore, Colombia, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panamá, Honduras, Argentina, and Pakistan.
“When we opened up Opal to users in the U.S. we anticipated they might build simple, fun tools,” said Megan Li, Senior Product Manager at Google Labs. “We didn’t expect the surge of sophisticated, practical, and highly creative Opal apps we got instead.”
She added that the overwhelming response from early adopters made it clear that Google needed to expand access globally.
How Opal works
Opal allows users to create mini web apps using plain text prompts. After entering a description of the desired app, Google’s AI models automatically generate it.
Once built, users can open the editor panel to view the visual workflow of inputs, outputs, and generation steps. Each step can be reviewed or edited, and new ones can be added using Opal’s toolbar.
Users can also publish and share their apps online, allowing others to test them through their own Google accounts.
Performance and debugging improvements
Alongside the expansion, Google announced several improvements to Opal’s debugging and performance systems.
The debugging feature has been enhanced but remains no-code, keeping it accessible to nontechnical users. Developers can now run workflows step by step in the visual editor and tweak specific actions in the console.
Errors now appear in context — right where they occur — minimizing guesswork and making the troubleshooting process more intuitive.
Google has also improved Opal’s speed and efficiency. Previously, it could take up to five seconds or more to create a new app, but recent updates have made the process significantly faster. The app now supports parallel processing, allowing multiple steps to run simultaneously for complex workflows.
With the U.S. launch of Opal in July, Google entered a growing market of no-code design tools alongside Canva, Figma, and Replit.
These platforms share the goal of empowering nontechnical users to prototype and design apps without writing code, a sector seeing increasing demand from creators, educators, and small businesses.
