Google’s vibe coding tool, Opal, is making its way to Gemini. The company announced Wednesday that it’s integrating the tool, which lets you build mini-apps powered by artificial intelligence, into its Gemini web app, allowing users to create their own custom apps, which Google calls Gems.
It was introduced in 2024, Gems are customized versions of Gemini designed for specific tasks or scenarios. For example, some of Google’s pre-built Gems include a learning coach, a brainstorming assistant, a career guide, a coding partner, and an editor.
Opal, meanwhile, focuses on helping users create mini-apps or combine existing apps. To use the feature, users describe in natural language the app they want to build, and the tool will use the different Gemini models to build it.
Opal is now available directly from Gemini on the web, where it resides in the Gems manager. The tool has a optical processor which defines the steps required to create an application. From the editor, users can rearrange steps and link them together without writing code.
Google notes that the visual editor also includes a new view in Gemini that will take the user’s text messages and turn them into a list of steps. This makes it even easier to build apps and see how they work.
For more advanced customization options, users can move from Gemini to the Advanced Editor at opal.google.com. Mini apps can be reused after they are created.
Known as “vibe-coding,” the use of artificial intelligence to program and build apps has exploded in popularity over the past couple of years. The marketplace now features apps from startups like Lovable and Cursor, as well as offerings from AI providers like Anthropic and OpenAI. There are also tools that focus more directly on consumers, such as those from AI app-building startup Wabi.
The Gemini web application is available at gemini.google.com.
