Kalimbay: Kalimba Thumb Piano

🎵 Kalimbay — Play, Learn, Record & Share the Kalimba

Turn your device into a beautiful 34-tine chromatic kalimba. Kalimbay is more than a thumb piano — it's a complete musical journey in your pocket.

🎹 PLAY — 15 REAL INSTRUMENTS

Experience seamless, low-latency playability across 15 beautifully tuned instruments: kalimba, marimba, piano, handpan, harp, guitar, ukulele, glockenspiel, vibraphone, xylophone, hurdy-gurdy, music box, guzheng, gambang & electric guitar — all volume-balanced, so switching between them always sounds just right.

★ Custom sounds — record your own sound for every tine and play it like an instrument (6 slots, 1 free)

★ Expressive controls: vibrato, reverb, sustain & glissando

★ Built-in metronome & haptic feedback

★ Adjustable tuning and key signature

★ Tine markers to highlight reference notes while you play

★ Hide the sharp-note row with one toggle

🎓 LEARN — 48 GUIDED LESSONS

From your very first notes to full songs. Lessons listen as you play and guide you note by note — no music background needed.

★ 8 categories: Scales, Technique, Chords, Rhythm, Improvisation, Theory, Progressions & Harmonization

★ Beginner friendly, step by step

🎧 EAR TRAINING

Train your ear with Kalimbay's quiz mode. Kalimbay plays a note, you find it on the tines — no sheet music, no theory needed. Your score is tracked, and you can restart the session anytime.

🎵 RECORD & SHARE YOUR MUSIC

Your music shouldn't stay locked inside the app.

★ Record your own tabs and export them as .klby files

★ Import tabs from friends or the community and follow along note by note

★ Record your performance as audio and share it anywhere

★ Automatic chord detection as you play

★ Numbered notation — turn your playing into a 1–7 score, add lyrics to every note, then export a shareable PNG or text

🎨 MAKE IT YOURS

★ 22 animated themes — Kalimbay, Winter, Rain, Ocean, Galaxy, Christmas, Misty Forest and more

★ Customizable tine width, key colors & backgrounds

★ Set a personal background image from your gallery

★ Available in 15 languages

Download Kalimbay for free and let your thumbs make music! 💛