Frequently asked questions and best practices

Opal can make mistakes so it's important to check your prompts and test your app.

  • What data is being collected and how is my data being used?
    • We don't use content from Opal data to train our generative AI models. This includes your prompts and any output Opal generates for you. In some cases, humans may review a small subset of prompts in order to troubleshoot or better understand use cases. Refer to the Google Terms of Service and Privacy Policy for more information on data we collect and use.
  • Who can access Opal?

    • Opal is publicly available to all users in the following countries. Opal's editor view is optimized for a desktop computer. You may use your mobile phone to use or view an already created app.

      Countries: Algeria, American Samoa, Angola, Anguilla, Antarctica, Antigua & Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, British Indian Ocean Territory, British Virgin Islands, Brunei, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Caribbean Netherlands, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Colombia, Comoros, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Côte d'Ivoire, Curaçao, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), Fiji, Gabon, Georgia, Ghana, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guatemala, Guernsey, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Heard Island & McDonald Islands, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Isle of Man, Israel, Jamaica, Japan, Jersey, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Micronesia, Mongolia, Montserrat, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Norfolk Island, Northern Mariana Islands, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Palestine, Panamá, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Pitcairn Islands, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Helena, Ascension & Tristan da Cunha, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Pierre & Miquelon, Saint Vincent & the Grenadines, Samoa, São Tomé and Príncipe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands, South Korea, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, The Bahamas, The Gambia, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tokelau, Tonga, Trinidad & Tobago, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Turks & Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, US Minor Outlying Islands, US Virgin Islands, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Wallis & Futuna, Western Sahara, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe

  • How does sharing my Opal work?,

    • Opals are private by default and visible only to you. If you choose to share your Opal, you can select individuals to share with or allow anyone with the link to access your Opal. In the share dialog, you can control a toggle to decide whether you want to allow access to the editor view and remix. Sharing access to the editor view gives others the ability to easily view your graph including all your prompts. Those you share editor view with cannot make edits to your Opal, but they can remix which enables them to make a copy of your Opal. If you don't allow editor view and remix, others will only be able to see the app view of your Opal, not the graph view with prompts.

      Please note, any time you share your Opal with others you are sharing the drive file with them as well which may give others workarounds to view details about your Opal. If it’s important to you to ensure no one has any way to access details about your Opal including your prompts, please do not share your Opal.

  • What is an Opal?,

    • Think of Opals like AI-powered mini-apps.
  • What is a "mini-app"?

    • Anything you find useful to build for yourself or to share with others. You can chain together text, image and video prompts and use tools like web search to build powerful mini-apps for yourself or others to use.These could be apps that produce creative and functional artifacts (e.g. images, reports, videos, storyboards, design docs, blogs, vlogs, podcasts, books) as well as interactive offerings like quizzes and games. The sky's the limit!
  • If I need help with Opal, what should I do?

    • Join the Labs discord and head to the #opal channel. You can ask questions there and the Opal team can respond!
  • Where can I provide feedback about Opal?

    • Submit a bug though by clicking the settings icon in the top right of the app and then clicking on Send feedback.
  • Which mini-apps end up in the Opal Gallery?

    • The Opal team has populated the Gallery with mini-apps we think best illustrate the product's capabilities. Stay tuned for more updates to the Gallery soon!