4.4
64 reviews
5K+
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Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

Xylo 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. Xylo 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 Xylo 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.
Updated on
May 3, 2022

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
This app may share these data types with third parties
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This app may collect these data types
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Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted
Committed to follow the Play Families Policy

Ratings and reviews

4.4
54 reviews
Iain Thirlwell
October 3, 2020
Brilliant little app that keeps the kids entertained. All issues previously encountered have been rectified in the latest update
17 people found this review helpful
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Jeurissen Apps
October 3, 2020
Multi-touch and sliding over the notes is now supported. In addition, performance has been dramatically improved in the latest version. Please let us know if you still experience issues here!
A Google user
March 17, 2015
Opening application should not force complete lockup of device. Assuming software audience is smaller humans and they inherit older tablets running older versions of Android. Like version 4.0 ice cream sandwich. Sheesh. Works great on Acer C720p Chromebook and Nexus 5 running android 5.1
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Jeurissen Apps
October 3, 2020
The application has been completely rewritten ever since. Are you still experiencing issues? If so, please let us know via support@playsprout.industries.
A Google user
April 8, 2015
Animations are laggy & needs to be able to play notes just by sliding over them
10 people found this review helpful
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Jeurissen Apps
October 3, 2020
Multi-touch and sliding over the notes is now supported. In addition, performance has been dramatically improved in the latest version. Please let us know if you still experience issues here!

What's new

Small improvements