Google Labs’ no-code AI mini-app builder, Opal, has been expanded from 16 countries to more than 160 countries. The tool is still tagged as Experimental by Google so don’t expect everything to work perfectly.
Opal first launched in the United States on July 24, and then on October 7 it was expanded to 15 more countries including Canada, India, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Indonesia, Brazil, Singapore, Colombia, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panamá, Honduras, Argentina and Pakistan. With the global rollout, it should be available to most people, but not all.
Since the launch of Opal, users have been creating complex, multi-step workflow apps to streamline research, make sense of data, and create repeatable workflows. Opal is able to automatically extract and analyze web data and save results directly to Google Sheets. Opal can also generate custom reports and create powerful tools for data analysis and it can automate tasks such as weekly newsletter updates, contract redlining, and meal planning.
Google said that creators and marketers have been using Opal for consistent and scalable content generation such as generating blog posts, social media captions, and video ad scripts from a single product concept. It is also being used for its dynamic visual tools that allow you to produce composite media such as generating an image and overlaying it with custom text. It is also helping writers brainstorm narratives, generate scripts, and produce accompanying audio voiceovers.
The tool is also pretty useful for entrepreneurs to quickly check new ideas or build simple mini-apps with popular examples being language learning apps, custom travel planners, and quick generator apps.
For those who haven"t used Opal, you just create a new project, tell it what you want the app to do in natural language, then a flowchart will be made that the app follows on each run. To get started head to opal.google.