Opal: Screen Time Control reviews, read one by one

★★★☆☆ · 2026-10-20 · v4.20

Helpful but Flawed

Couple does a good job of what it says on the tin in terms of blocking apps. It also affords flexibility for you to exclude apps that you don’t want blocked and to set different rules for filters and scheduling. The UI is reasonably intuitive. However, there’s a lot of overreach by default, utilizing an all-or-nothing kind of approach. For example, if you’ve blocked Facebook, you can’t use any app or site that uses Facebook to login, even on the back end. You have to turn off...

★★★★☆ · 2026-10-12 · v4.18

Great for the most part

My rating is actually a 3.5, but high enough swaying power to want to round it up to 4 stars. Overall this app has been helpful to block apps and aid in regaining my focus. There are 4 things however that prevent me from wanting to give it a 5 star rating: 1. Opal is pretty much social media focused, and automatically labels any social media and shopping adjacent apps as “distracting” and all others as “productive”—a very black and white approach—without taking into account y...

★★★★★ · 2026-10-07 · v4.18

Amazing app!

Ive recently just reached my 290th day of using Opal and I got to say, it was a life changing app, I’ve managed to prioritize my life and hobbies more than i ever have before and with lately having been diagnosed with ADHD i can say that overall having downloaded Opal almost a year ago definitely helped manage my situation way before i even got diagnosed. However lately for some reason I’ve been losing track of my screen-time as for some reason Opal has been missing the time...

★★☆☆☆ · 2026-10-12

A bit scammy

It’s a very basic screen time monitoring app, that doesn’t do much else than the native screen time feature for iOS already does. The way it measures success is pretty unsophisticated considering the subscription price. For example, the way it measures phone pickups makes no sense at all. Some days I have a “slow down” message for 10 pickups, while in others, it seems ok when I’m at 30 pick ups at the same time of day. There is no explicit logic to what determines the label...

★★★★☆ · 2026-10-23

Mudou minha vida

Merecia 5 estrelas mas recentemente vem bugado bastante. As vezes os apps não bloqueiam, ou quando desbloqueio um app ele fica muito mais que 15 minutos aberto. Tirando isso é perfeito! Diminui muito meu tempo de tela! Eu uso a versão gratuita, e posso dizer com confiança pq vai fazer quase 1 ano que uso o Opal. É bem intuitivo, fácil de mexer e realmente diminui seu tempo de tela