A simple, student-friendly phone policy powered by our app.
We're proud to announce Opal For Schools is live at Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles, creating a focused, distraction-free learning environment for all.
With Opal, Students focus on learning while building digital habits that last a lifetime.
We’ve already seen this work at scale: 70% of our millions of users are students. No one forces them to use Opal, they choose it because it works. That’s why we know schools can partner with students, rather than fight against them, to create healthier digital cultures.
We're thrilled to announce Opal For Schools is live at Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles, creating a focused, distraction-free learning environment for all.
There’s growing momentum around banning phones in schools. But bans are hard to enforce, and often backfire. What if there were a smarter way?
With Opal for Schools, we’ve built exactly that: a simple, student-friendly phone policy powered by Opal’s market-leading screen time app. No hardware. No delays. Students keep their phones, and they actually like it.
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About Opal for Schools on Product Hunt
“A simple, student-friendly phone policy powered by our app. ”
Opal for Schools launched on Product Hunt on September 4th, 2025 and earned 129 upvotes and 10 comments, placing #15 on the daily leaderboard. We're proud to announce Opal For Schools is live at Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles, creating a focused, distraction-free learning environment for all.
On the analytics side, Opal for Schools competes within Education, School and Cell Phone — topics that collectively have 79.8k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Opal for Schools performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Opal for Schools?
Opal for Schools was hunted by Kenneth Schlenker. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
Kenneth Schlenker