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Opal is the fun, free Screen Time app to improve your focus and make the most out of every day.\n\n5 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.\n\n**As of August 2026, Opal has saved humanity 500 Million hours of screen time. **\n\nMany of the world's top teams and companies trust Opal to help protect their focus. You can too.\n\n**Opal cut my screen time by 2 hours per day – Marketing at Google **\n\n**You need this app. When I first got opal my daily screen-time was about 8 1/2 hours a day. 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