Opal - Screen Time Control
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Amrith

The New Opal - Real focus in real-time, with iOS 16 Screen Time API

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Opal is the first app to connect to Screen Time on iOS16, making it easy for over a billion iPhone and iPad users to measure and improve their focus. Focus Score® is a new technology to check your focus level throughout the day, based on the apps you use.

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Kenneth Schlenker
Maker
We're very excited to introduce The New Opal and to be the first to use Screen Time API, to help you focus better and accomplish more of your dreams. 1️⃣ Get your Focus Report® Diagnose your Focus and measure your progress with clear metrics, important context and compare with your peers. 2️⃣ Real-time evolution With Focus Score®, check your focus level at any point throughout the day. You will also get a report on your progress every week. 3️⃣ Take action with Sessions Opal will remove apps from your phone and desktop while you’re focusing, and you can always take a break to bring them back temporarily. I recorded this Loom video to give you a demo and more context on this update: https://www.loom.com/share/a143b... Please don't hesitate to share any feedback or ask any questions, I'm here :) Thank you @techcrunch ! https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/1... "With its latest release, the company has rebuilt the service to now leverage Apple’s new Screen Time API to remove apps from the phone when you’re trying to focus, and to display your Screen Time data in a more readable and actionable fashion." "Over 200,000 users have downloaded Opal, and have now spent over 20 million hours focusing using the app."
Thibaud Elziere
Just updated my phone to IO16 and here is the first app I will install. Congrats for trying to make all of us less addict :)
Kenneth Schlenker
Maker
@tiboel incredible! enjoy a more focused day today! Thank you for your support.
Nicolas Wittenborn
v3 is a huge improvement - congrats!!
Kenneth Schlenker
Maker
@ncsh Thank you for your support!
Balakrishna Hebbar
Congratulations on the launch! Looking forward to Mac OS launch.
Kenneth Schlenker
Maker
@bala_asodu thank you! with screen time api this will come next. We have a chrome extension right now, did you try it?
Mehdi Yacoubi
Exceptional product! Congrats to the team for this new update 👏
Kenneth Schlenker
Maker
@mehdi_yacoubi Amazing! thanks for your support @mehdi_yacoubi , now people can be focused on Opal and healthy on Vital :)
Thomas
love the new update! congrats 🫶
Kenneth Schlenker
Maker
@vimarethomas Thank you! you're clearly an OG, Original Gem
Adam Říha
OK!! I know what the first app I will install after updating to IOS 16. I've been having trouble concentrating lately, I'm hoping this will help. Congrats on the launch guys! 🔥
Kenneth Schlenker
Maker
@adamriha Amazing! please let us know how it goes
Hugh Lagrotteria
Such an awesome looking product. I've actually been wanting to more deliberately commit to focus time during the workday. I think The New Opal is just what I needed...can't wait to use it once iOS16 works out all of its bugs 😁😅Congrats on the launch today @kschlenker and team! 💯🚀
Kenneth Schlenker
Maker
@hugh_lagrotteria Thanks! 😊 please don't hesitate to share any bugs you see directly in the app (contact us in settings), that will really help us serve you better
Alin Ionescu
Beautiful app guys, we need this type of tools to remeber us that the screen-time is something to which we have to keep an eye on. Too much people waste so much time on their smartphones doing nothing. Congrats!
Kenneth Schlenker
Maker
@alin_ionescu thanks for the love Alin! please don't hesitate to share back how it's working for you
Brittany Joiner {Britt the Builder}
Congrats on the launch! It's a cool product, but i sometimes struggle with this like this (similar to Freedom) where it's not always specific apps that are the problem. For instance, sometimes it's youtube, but sometimes I'm trying to upload videos to youtube and edit my content on there, and that's "work". Do you have a good way to address that where you can only do specific things in apps? Ie, send a tweet, but not scroll on twitter.
Jeremy Nagel
@britt_joiner not sure it's possible with Opal but I find an allow-list approach the best. With focusbear.io, you can allow "studio.youtube.com" and all other sites are blocked (including regular Youtube).
Kenneth Schlenker
Maker
@britt_joiner Thanks for writing! With Opal the entire app disapears but we encourage you to take "breaks" which are short times to make to apps reappear on a timer; so you can be very intentional about the way you use it for example "5 min on YouTube to post this video".
Brittany Joiner {Britt the Builder}
@jeremy_nazgul ah yeah that's a good point!
Brittany Joiner {Britt the Builder}
@kschlenker ah interesting, that's a good point i guess!
Kenneth Schlenker
Maker
Thanks for hunting us @amrith ! and the early love @tiboel . We're very excited to introduce The New Opal and to be the first to use Screen Time API, to help you focus better and accomplish more of your dreams. Please don't hesitate to share any feedback or ask any questions, I'm here :)
Arif ali
hmm may be a good alternative
Kenneth Schlenker
Maker
@1arifali11 let me know if you try it, how it goes for you
Nathan Pamart
Love it - mission critical product!
Kenneth Schlenker
Maker
@nathan_pamart1 Thanks for the support and for sharing the love!
Romain Lacombe
Congrats @kschlenker & team on the launch, so good to see the new Opal coming to life!
Kenneth Schlenker
Maker
@rlacombe thank you! we'll do our best to keep you on the saddle
Clo
Congrats everyone for the great work! 🥳
Kenneth Schlenker
Maker
@clo__s thanks gem
Nico Muoio
Absolutely love the branding and landing page! Congrats on the launch guys.
Kenneth Schlenker
Maker
@nicomuoio Absolutely loving this comment! let us know how it's going for you once you try
Tomasz Koperski
@kschlenker congratulations on the v3.0 release. It looks and feels great!
Kenneth Schlenker
Maker
@tomasz_koperski thank you for all the help from you and your team since day 1
Shushant Lakhyani
Not an iPhone user, but this looks cool. Congratulations on the launch!
Kenneth Schlenker
Maker
@shushant_lakhyani Thanks man!
Pierre Valade
Great update! Well done @kschlenker
Kenneth Schlenker
Maker
@pierrevalade thank you sir, this means a lot from you!
Ferhan Gül
Congrats
Kenneth Schlenker
Maker
@ferhan_gul thanks man!