“i hate this — everything is hidden behind a paywall and it won’t let me add apps above 5+”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 570 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
4.7 ★88,883 ratings
—Downloads
4+Age rating
317 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
Achieve screen time control with the world’s most-loved screen time app! Opal is the fun, free Screen Time app to improve your focus and make the most out of every day.
5 to 6 hours. That’s the average time you’ll spend looking at your phone today, often without realizing it. It's time to fight back. With a combination of screen time control, app limits, app blockers, real time data, leaderboards and rewards, you will focus better and accomplish your dreams, just like Opal’s members.
**As of August 2026, Opal has saved humanity 500 Million hours of screen time. **
Many of the world's top teams and companies trust Opal to help protect their focus. You can too.
**Opal cut my screen time by 2 hours per day – Marketing at Google **
**You need this app. When I first got opal my daily screen-time was about 8 1/2 hours a day. Now it's 1 hour. **…
Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
Independent evidence report
The evidence behind this assessment
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 4.17 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 4.17, updated 2026-09-26.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Says how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
1 theme reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
80–89% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
Context 1
Measured and published because a reader would want to know — deliberately not a charge. The measurement alone does not show a harm.
Cheapest and priciest options are far apart
The disclosed in-app purchases span an unusually wide price range. Published as context: the cheapest and priciest items may be different kinds of product entirely, so the spread alone deducts nothing.
What we saw: In-app purchases run from USD 4.99 to USD 99.99 — a 20x spread across 10 items
One source only — shown, not confirmed 1
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
Reported by users: Paywall blocks the basics
The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.
What we saw: Paywall blocks the basics: raised by 6 distinct reviewers (1.1% of 570 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Worst app OAT — So laggy and glitchy. You reset your time limit and then it still blocks your apps 5 seconds after. It drains your battery expediently fast. So many features are behind a paywall. This app used to work fine but after the…”
“No paywall. Works — I got this app because I wanted to try something better than screen time limits. What I don’t like about those is that you can avoid them so quickly, and because it’s a system notification, it’s almost second nature…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 4.17.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Items shown6
Lowest$4.99
Highest$99.99
Weekly Plan$4.99
Opal Student Weekly$9.99
Weekly Plan$9.99
Monthly Plan$19.99
Yearly Plan$99.99
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Opal Pro Subscription$49.99