PlayXylo

Back to the xylophone

A simple, vibrant digital xylophone

PlayXylo is a simple and distraction-free musical app that plays sounds from recordings of a real xylophone. It’s designed to be fun and easy to use for kids and adults alike—perfect for an educational environment.

Launch the app and you’ll get the xylophone board quickly-no delays—so you can immediately start playing any tune you want.

The controls are what you would expect on a digital xylophone. Tap the keys with your fingers on touchscreen devices, press the corresponding numbers on a keyboard, or just click the colorful keys with your mouse. You can even slide over the board to hit consecutive keys, or use two or more controls at the same time.

The distinguishing feature of a xylophone’s sound is the sense of precision that comes from its lack of resonance. PlayXylo uses sound recordings from a real xylophone to give you that same feeling.

There are many ways to make the xylophone fit your use case. By default, a beautiful set of rainbow colors are used. In addition, there’s a Boomwhacker version for those using this colorset. A special Solfege mode is available, which replaces the pitch names with Solfege (Do, Re, Mi) to teach kids and students effective reading and singing of music. The chromatic scale is also available, giving you access to all the flats and sharps.

Don’t know how or what to play? There is a community section that contains videos of how other PlayXylo users interact with the app for learning, teaching, or just playing. You can find it in the navigation menu.

Dark mode follows your system theme, which is perfect for playing lullabies at night. The layout and language of the app and xylophone board also adapts to that of your system.

No internet access? No problem! This app works even when you’re offline.

Community videos

If you want your video to be included, please use the #PlayXylo hashtag or reach out to us.

Songs

Sailor, Sailor

Big Band (Emilio Huerta)

World Travellers (Original)

The Lion Sleeps Tonight (Wimoweh)

Let Us Chase The Squirrel (Lynn Kleiner)

Sunflower (Post Malone, Swae Lee)

Warm Up

Guateque (Emilio Huerta)

Something In The Waters

Warm Up (Arpeggios)

Jingle Bells

Christmas Lights (Coldplay)

Ritmo sabroso (Emilio Huerta)

Qué será, será / Whatever will be will be (Doris Day)

Little Elephants (Canticos)

7 Years (Lukas Graham)

East Coast (Cumbia)

Snail, Snail

When The Saints Go Marching In (Louis Armstrong)

Paseo (Mª Jesús Camino)

French Valse (Emilio Huerta)

Jumping Santa

Nueva canción de ColaCao

Let's play (Mª Jesús Camino)

Coco (Lucky Chops)

Gam Gam (Marnik and SMACK)

Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree (Meghan Trainor)

Girls like you (Maroon 5)

Count On Me (Bruno Mars)

Jamva (new song)

Simfonia de recursos

Horchata Bachata (Emilio Huerta)

Simfonia de recursos

Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star

You are my Sunshine

Ode to Joy

Mary Had A Little Lamb

London Bridge

Jingle Bells

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

Gong Xi

Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker March

The Addams Family

Music to my ears

Teacher tips

Walk around advanced features

Split screen

Seesaw Activity integration

Recording with Flipgrid

Classes