Google is expanding the reach of its experimental AI app builder, Opal, to 15 additional countries, opening up new opportunities for creators to build and share mini web apps without writing a single line of code.
The expansion brings Opal to Canada, India, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Indonesia, Brazil, Singapore, Colombia, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panamá, Honduras, Argentina, and Pakistan. This marks the first major rollout since the U.S. launch in July 2025.
Opal allows users to build small web applications by typing simple text prompts, after which the tool uses a combination of Google models to generate a functional app. Once created, users can open an editor panel to customize the visual workflow, review prompts, add new steps, and adjust outputs manually. Apps can then be published to the web and shared via links that require a Google account to access.
“When we opened up Opal to users in the U.S., we anticipated they might build simple, fun tools,” said Megan Li, a senior product manager at Google Labs, in a blog post. “We didn’t expect the surge of sophisticated, practical and highly creative Opal apps we got instead. The ingenuity of these early adopters made one thing clear: we need to get Opal into the hands of more creators globally.”
Alongside the expansion, Google also announced significant upgrades to Opal’s core performance and debugging features. The company says the debugging process has been improved while keeping the platform strictly no-code. Users can now run workflows step by step in the visual editor, tweak specific steps in the console, and see errors in real-time to streamline troubleshooting.
Google has also reduced app generation time significantly. Previously, creating a new Opal app could take up to five seconds or more; the new improvements cut this down considerably. Additionally, users can now execute multiple steps simultaneously, enabling more complex workflows.
The U.S. launch earlier this year positioned Opal as part of a growing ecosystem of no-code AI-powered app builders, alongside tools from Canva, Figma, and Replit. By bringing Opal to more countries, Google is looking to harness the creativity of a global user base and strengthen its foothold in the rapidly expanding no-code development market.
