Last updated on December 10th, 2025 at 12:16 pm
Marimba, Xylophone, Vibraphone – Music Game Review
Marimba, Xylophone, Vibraphone is a Music/Music/Simulation game from Son Truong Ngoc, first launched in 6th March 2019.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 1,827+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Marimba, Xylophone, Vibraphone Stand Out
The Marimba is a percussion music instrument consisting of a set of wooden bars struck with yarn or rubber mallets to produce musical tones. Resonators or pipes suspended underneath the bars amplify their sound. The bars of a chromatic marimba are arranged like the keys of a piano, with the groups of two and three accidentals raised vertically, overlapping the natural bars to aid the performer both visually and physically. This instrument is a type of idiophone, but with a more resonant and lower-pitched tessitura than the xylophone. A person who plays the marimba is called a marimbist or a marimba player. Modern uses of the marimba include solo performances, woodwind and brass ensembles, marimba concertos, jazz ensembles, marching band (front ensembles), drum and bugle corps, and orchestral compositions. Contemporary composers have used the unique sound of the marimba more and more in recent years. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marimba)
The Xylophone is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars struck by mallets. Each bar is an idiophone tuned to a pitch of a musical scale, whether pentatonic or heptatonic in the case of many African and Asian instruments, diatonic in many western children's instruments, or chromatic for orchestral use.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylophone)
The Vibraphone is a musical instrument in the struck idiophone subfamily of the percussion family. It consists of tuned metal bars, and is usually played by holding two or four soft mallets and striking the bars. People who play the vibraphone are called vibraphonists or vibraharpists. The vibraphone resembles any keyboard instrument. One of the main differences between the vibraphone and other mallet instruments is that each bar suspends over a resonator tube with a motor-driven butterfly valve at the top. The valves connect together on a common axle, which produces a tremolo or vibrato effect while the motor rotates the axle. The vibraphone also has a sustain pedal similar to a piano. With the pedal up, the bars produce a muted sound. With the pedal down, the bars sustain for several seconds, or until muted with the pedal.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibraphone)
The Glockenspiel is a percussion instrument composed of a set of tuned keys arranged in the fashion of the keyboard of a piano. In this way, it is similar to the xylophone, although the xylophone's bars are made of wood, while the glockenspiel's are metal plates or tubes, thus making it a metallophone. The glockenspiel, additionally, is usually smaller and, because of both its material and smaller size, higher in pitch.
In German, a carillon is also called a glockenspiel, while in French, the glockenspiel is often called a carillon. In music scores the glockenspiel is sometimes designated by the Italian term campanelli.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glockenspiel
Tubular bells (also known as chimes) are musical instruments in the percussion family. Their sound resembles that of church bells, carillon, or a bell tower; the original tubular bells were made to duplicate the sound of church bells within an ensemble.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tubular_bells
The Marimba, Xylophone, Vibraphone Real is percussion simulation app using yarn mallet with roll feature. Frequency range: C3 -> F6 (Marimba, Vibraphone), G4 -> C8 (Xylophone), C4 -> F7 (Glockenspiel), C5 -> F8 (Tubular Bell).
More offline and online songs for practice (With the ability to change speed, transpose, reverb).
Play with multi modes:
- Full (Left & Right hand)
- Only Right hand
- Right hand (Auto or Piano Left hand)
- Real Time
- Auto-play (Preview)
Support multi views and adjustable UI for optimal experience.
Record feature: record, play back and share to your friends.
Export .wav file feature: export and save .wav file to storage (With the ability to change speed, transpose).
** Songs is updated regularly
This Music game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Marimba, Xylophone, Vibraphone is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 25th November 2024
Recent improvements include:
[2.5] Improve UI, performance, speed, …
- Fix bug
[2.4.2] New feature: Audio Setting (Best Latency or Best Performance)
- Big improve game performance
- Fix bugs
[2.3.1] Improve performance and fix bugs
[2.2] New instrument: Tubular Bell (also called Orchestral Bells or Orchestral Chimes)
- Improve and Optimize
- Fix bug
[2.1.1] New feature: Note name mode
- Improve Export .wav feature
- Fix bug
[2.1] NEW percussion: Glockenspiel
- New feature: Record don't microphone, Reverb Preset, Exit game feature
- Improve & Optimize: Graphic, Gameplay, Audio latency, …
[2.0] NEW percussion: Xylophone, Vibraphone
- New feature: Reverb, On/Off roll
- Improve audio, game play, UI
Download & Availability
Marimba, Xylophone, Vibraphone is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Marimba, Xylophone, Vibraphone on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Im a good percussionist and this app is perfect for practicing one thing is they should add more instruments for example bells, slapaphone, lithophone, Aquarion and etc but still really good game.
This is so good for band in 5th grade.
With each bottom press it peor surging relief that it was such a good app and it made us play so good and it was so easy to use and it made us want to practice all day entell we relized that we didnt have all day cuz we had stuff to do like yesterday we had to go to our brothers bday party at bowlaro which was vary fun by the way and we did so good but his friends started to bowl like 3 balls down the lane at once but it was vary funny but all in all a very good app.
So this game has all our instruments Ive been wanting for a long time and its magical. We really like this app and please get this app five stars. This is the best game ever.
Ive had this app for years and always enjoy using it. Recently we used it in a recording and the vibraphone was very useful for the arrangement.
Good way to practice on mallets for percussionists. The UI could use a touch up. Its designed to be more of a game than a tool, but overall a great app. Theres also a list if songs that the app will teach you to play.
We do not want the xlylophone and marimba to echo.
Great sounding apps but need to add MIDI input and AUv3 to be useful for more people.
Cant tell a flat to minor. Scale only shows minor no flat signs. Where is the b flat. Im trying to learn trombone and this instrument on our tablet is not helping.
This game is awesome and has helped us learn music on the go wherever Im at and has helped us in band a lot.
We like this game so much we have it on our phone thats were we found it we just wanted to play it on both our phone and our iPad so much and sometimes we play along with our favorite movies and our favorite shows on tv like friends and supernatural Sam is our favorite character then our 2 favorite character is dean then Cass omg supernatural last season was so good sad ending but so good we have all of the seasons of it.
This game is very good and fun. Although it could use an update in the music. It would be a better app if they could put more songs. But over all , It is a great app and very fun.
We like the learning games. It definitely helps associate the keys with the notes.
We like this app and it gives you many options. We wanted to use it because we play the marimba irl, but one thing seems to be wrong. The A# is actually B flat, not A# but the note sounds like B flat so we guess thats ok. But if you can please fix those that are wrong.
It makes us tickle our pickles Happy birthday is so good and yummy to our ears mmmmmm.
The app is very realistic and has helped us a lot, but please try to make an option where we can make our own music and share it with other people using the app. Because currently, we are learning a song for a concert that Im having this upcoming week but we find it a little difficult for us to look at our sheet music and play on the app at the same time because it is more different than real life and we just find a better with the in app tutorials for the song, so maybe add an option where we can make our own music and share with other people on the app but other than that the app is very good and realistic is it has help us a lot we really recommend it.
All of these percussion instruments helped us practice for band class. We would totally recommend this app if u need help or just wanna have fun.
We really like this app, its good for practicing! However, there are missing bars such as b flat. Other than, that we recommend this app.
Our reasoning is that it is so glitchy and out of time when you try to play it. The rolls are annoying and the settings to. The delay is way worse then other games.
How are you supposed to play when there are ads in front of the keys? Other than that this app is good, but its impossible to use with ads.
This is kinda like a piano but better, And Also Why this is a 5 Star-Rated Game is Because The Chilling music And Great music! Also Make Sure to Rate And like the Game.
Different mallets would be even more very nice like Yarn, rubber ,brass and maybe a setting for tap and hold to roll.
Im in percussion and this is pretty awesome and accurate there is one thing can you add cymbals to it thanks.
We have played other instruments games that sounds quote: SOUND realistic but not, this games sounds is all realistic, like this is the real deal sound, how do we know? We have a marimba at home and it sound exactly the same, but just one question, are you gonna add more bar instruments.
Its good for percussionist if you have to start with this to go to snare drums.
This game taught us how to play marimba, and now we can play our favorite songs without buying a marimba. Thank you, Marimba Real.
Pretty cool so far. We will rereview if it lets us down.
So great!!!! We had to download this for our music class. Didn't realize it would cure our autism.
The sound of the instruments sound very accurate and it assist in practicing a lot of songs without having an instrument on hand. Although, we would like a note name mode with the flats. That would be helpful.
Super good, realistic sounds and its not just the marimba there are other instruments, and another great feature is you can choose if you want note names and what type. The only thing not good is it doesnt let you see the whole the marimba you have to choose a section which can be inconvenient. Other than that 100% recommended.
First off, this app sounds pretty good. But it is SO unpolished and rough. Most of the text is not placed correctly and a lot of the textures seem to be stretched out and very low quality. The app functions fine, though.
The sound is working fine on our iPad; not in this app.
We were worried that there wouldnt be a free play option, and we would have to play only to songs, but there is that option! Totally recommend this app to everyone if youre hoping to get some marimba practice in.
This app helps so well with people learning notes and letters of where the notes are. The roles are a little annoying, we wish there was a way to turn them off so you can work on a pattern with just one note. This app helps a lot though.
It is just what we need to practice our notes and help us get familiar with the sounds since we will be getting a marimba someday.
There is no noise when playing the instaramants so it's pointless to have and we have our volume up all the way.
We have music class with Marimbas and we need to practice for a stage opening thing, you know? And like yea, we need to practice to be on it. And we found this! Its soooooo fun! We can use it every school day! And Im just getting ready for the stage thing! Its SOOOOOOOOOO FUN AND EDUCATIONAL TOO.
We cant get any sound from this app.
This really helped us learn our scales we definitely recommend this app.
Its not the worst app Ive gotten to learn keyboard, but its not good. Theres lag when you tap on the note forcing you to play really slow so you cant practice with a fast tempo, and its way to easy to do rolls, you just have to press the note three times and it rolls for you. First off, thats not how you learn to do a roll, and second if you want to play a pattern on one note, you cant, because it just starts rolling which is annoying. Overall its just too hard to use and we wouldnt recommend it.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.5
- Size: 67.91 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Son Truong Ngoc
Last updated: 25th November 2024 | Genre: Music, Music | Developer: Son Truong Ngoc