{"id":91348,"date":"2025-07-25T12:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T12:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/91348\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T12:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T12:23:08","slug":"google-is-testing-a-vibe-coding-app-called-opal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/91348\/","title":{"rendered":"Google is testing a vibe-coding app called Opal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AI-powered coding tools have become so popular over the past few months that almost every major tech company is either using one or making its own. Makers of these so-called \u201cvibe-coding\u201d tools are a hot commodity at the moment, with startups like <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/07\/23\/eight-months-in-swedish-unicorn-lovable-crosses-the-100m-arr-milestone\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lovable<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/07\/18\/cursor-snaps-up-enterprise-startup-koala-in-challenge-to-github-copilot\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cursor<\/a> fending off buyers and investors keen to tap a hot trend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Google\u2019s now become the latest to hop on this bandwagon: the company is testing a vibe-coding tool called <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/opal.withgoogle.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Opal<\/a>, available to users in the U.S. through Google Labs, which the company uses as a base to experiment with new tech.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Opal lets you create mini web apps using text prompts, or you can remix existing apps available in a gallery. All users have to do is in a description of the app they want to make, and the tool will then use different Google models to do so.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once the app is ready, you can navigate into an editor panel to see the visual workflow of input, output, and generation steps. You can click on each workflow step to look at the prompt that dictates the process, and edit it if you need to. You can also manually add steps from Opal\u2019s toolbar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Opal also lets users publish their new app on the web and share the link with others to test out using their own Google accounts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Google\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RLCBSpgos6s\" target=\"_blank\">AI studio<\/a> already lets developers build apps using prompts, but Opal\u2019s visual workflow indicates the company likely wants to target a wider audience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company joins a long list of competitors, including <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/04\/10\/canva-is-adding-an-ai-assistant-coding-and-sheets-to-its-platform\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Canva<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/05\/07\/figma-releases-new-ai-powered-tools-for-creating-sites-app-prototypes-and-marketing-assets\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Figma<\/a>, and Replit, that are making tools to encourage non-technical people to create prototypes of apps without having to do any coding.<\/p>\n<p>Techcrunch event<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSan Francisco<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t|<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOctober 27-29, 2025\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AI-powered coding tools have become so popular over the past few months that almost every major tech company&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":91349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[60639,2722,60640,158,67,132,68,1677],"class_list":{"0":"post-91348","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-ai-apps","9":"tag-google","10":"tag-google-labs","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-vibe-coding"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114913857038944226","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}