Looking for a Opal alternative?
Fair is fair: Beautiful screen-time management on iPhone: app limits, focus scores, deep-focus modes. Probably the prettiest product in the category. If you're here anyway, it's probably because of where that model breaks down.
Where Opal falls short
Opal's center of gravity is iOS; the desktop/browser story is thin, and the subscription (~$99/year for Pro) prices it like a premium phone wellness product. App-level limits also can't see inside the browser: Safari is one app to Opal, whether you're in Google Docs or on TikTok web.
What Focus AI does differently
- ✔Sees inside the browser: every tab judged against your task, which app-level tools physically can't do
- ✔Founding Member pricing at half of Opal Pro
- ✔Desktop-first, where students and knowledge workers lose their deepest hours
- ✔Session mechanics (Quit Wall, stamps, receipts) instead of passive score-tracking
Honest verdict: who should stay with Opal
Stay with Opal if your screen-time problem lives on your iPhone and you value design polish enough to pay for it. Tools earn loyalty by fitting how you actually fail, and Opal fits some failure modes well.
Switch to Focus AI if your pattern is the other one: the block was either too blunt to live with or too easy to escape, and what you needed was a blocker that understands the task, guards the exit, and makes resisting feel like winning.
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Add Focus AI to Chrome — it's freeFrequently asked questions
Is Focus AI a good Opal alternative?
If Opal's model (screen-time app (iOS-first)) keeps failing you at the moment of temptation, yes: Focus AI replaces static rules with an AI that judges every page against the task you declared, and replaces the easy exit with the Quit Wall. If Opal's core model fits you, stay: your screen-time problem lives on your iPhone and you value design polish enough to pay for it.
Is Focus AI free?
Free to install with full AI blocking for your first sessions. If it sticks, it's $9.99/month or $49/year Founding Member pricing.
Can I switch from Opal without losing my block lists?
You barely need lists: name your task and the AI handles judgment. Focus AI still ships editable allow/block lists for hard rules, and adding your old standbys takes a minute in the dashboard.