Google Opal was launched in public beta in the U.S. in late July 2025 and was made available to Google Workspace accounts with early access enabled.
Opal was built with Breadboard. Breadboard is an open-source project created by Google employee Dimitri Glazkov.
Google Opal goes well beyond simplifying the animation of cats, rabbits, and wizards. Organizations using Google Workspace will be able to create ‘seatbelt apps,’ those with low cost and high benefits.
Summarize this post with:
Opal Overview
Opal is positioned as an AI mini-app builder. Users can build mini-apps with a combination of natural language and visual editing.
One approach is to start by writing a prompt for an app and then edit it with additional ‘Suggest an edit’ prompts or manually edit the steps (which themselves include prompts).
The builder’s current step categories are:
- User Input
- Generate
- Output
- Add Assets
Add Asset Options
The assets that can be added to an app are
- File uploads
- Google Drive files
- YouTube videos
- Text
- Drawings
Generate Options
The options under ‘Generate’, along with their descriptions, are
- Gemini 2.5 Flash
For everyday tasks, plus more - Gemini 2.5 Pro
Best for complex tasks - Plan and Execute with Gemini 2.5 Flash
Plans and executes complex tasks - Deep Research with Gemini 2.5 Flash
In-depth research on your topic - Imagen 4
Generates images from text - Gemini 2.0 Flash: Image Generation
Generates images from text and images - AudioLM
Generates speech from text - Veo
Generates videos from text and images - Lyria 2
Generates instrumental music from text
Example App
Here’s a Google Opal business app we built in minutes called ‘Shadow IT Minimizer.’ It allows employees to determine if any existing, IT-sanctioned software may meet their requirements before tapping a credit card and adding to the shadow stack.
Shadow IT has cost and security implications for many organizations. A simple app like this could mitigate some of the risk.
Using Google Opal
The access URL is opal.withgoogle.com.
Users can either remix (clone) existing gallery apps or create new ones from scratch.
Public beta users can provide feedback on the Google Developer Community Discord.
