About Opal

Opal is a digital wellbeing assistant platform helping people be more present in their lives using technology.

What Opal is building

Opal builds technology, products, and content that make it both easy and rewarding to develop habits for a richer life.

Technologies used at Opal

Front-end (2)

Back-end (4)

Typescript

React

Funding rounds

Total Funding

$4.3M

Last funding round type

Seed

Company type

For Profit

Opal news and updates

Opal partnered with Apple Inc on Jan 1st 22'.

This year Opal has partnered with Apple to connect to native iOS Screen Time technology via API, and make the experience better for everyone.

Oct 5, 2022 | opal.so

Opal partnered with Apple Inc on Jan 1st 22'.

This year Opal has partnered with Apple to connect to native iOS Screen Time technology via API, and make the experience better for everyone.

Oct 5, 2022 | opal.so

Opal received financing of $10M in Series A funding round on May 31st 22'.

Opal, a platform that decentralizes access management for enterprise customers, today announced that it raised $10 million in a Series A funding round led by Greylock.

Jan 1, 2022 | techcrunch.com

This Screen Time Tracking App Helped Me Quit My Nightly TikTok Habit

Though the app costs a cool $60 a year, Opal claims they save people an average of two hours a day that they’d otherwise spend doomscrolling. As someone who scoffs at a $1.99 price tag on an app, I set two reminders to let me know when my week trial was over, so that I could cancel before getting charged. But at the end of the week, I didn’t want to end my subscription. For once, I felt protected from the distractions that keep me up at night.

Jun 5, 2021 | Bustle

Opal cuts off your apps’ internet access to help you stop doomscrolling

Now a new app called Opal has a novel approach to disconnecting your apps from the internet to help you save some time from mindless hours of browsing. The iOS app uses a custom VPN to manage all these connections. So, once you start a session on Opal, you’d be able to open the app, but you won’t be able to refresh your feed.

Jan 26, 2021 | The Next Web

Opal raises $4.3 million for its ‘digital well-being’ assistant for iPhone

Many people want to develop better screen-time habits, but don’t have a good set of tools to do so. A new startup, Opal, aims to help. The company, now backed by $4.3 million in seed funding, has developed a digital well-being assistant for iOS that allows you to block distracting websites and apps, set schedules around app usage, lock down apps for stricter and more focused quiet periods, and more.

Jan 26, 2021 | Tech Crunch