OPEN PLIP

WHAT MAKES PLIP DIFFERENT

Play it together. Show it off. Bring it to class.

plip is a free music studio that fits in your pocket. Lots of apps let one person make a beat. plip is built for the people around you: friends play in time on their own phones, every song becomes a video worth sharing, and a whole class can make music while the teacher sees every student's work.

Free, no ads, no sign-up. Runs in the browser on phones, tablets and computers.

plip on a phone in TOGETHER: IN SYNC with 3 phones, the party of critters, and a mixer with a strip for you and each friend The first frame of a vertical video made in plip: the song southbeach 22 over the critter party, the caption made this beat on my phone, the song's controls underneath, and plip.studio at the bottom The piano roll on a phone: two bars of LEAD with C, Am7, Fmaj7 and G chords named on chips, a melody above them with accented notes, and a FILTER lane below drawn as a rising sweep
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PLAY TOGETHER

A band on everyone's phone, in the same room or across the world.

  • Join with a word. One person taps TOGETHER; friends scan a QR code or type a word like MOCHI. No installs, no accounts, no friend lists.
  • Nothing to lag. plip doesn't stream sound between phones. Each phone plays everyone's parts from one shared clock, so the band stays on the beat on every phone.
  • Every phone is the band, or plug one into a real speaker and tap THIS PHONE IS THE SPEAKER: it plays everyone, with a mixer strip for each player.
  • You can see who's playing. Friends show up on the party as their critters, holding the instrument they're playing and hopping on their notes.
  • Live performance, shared. Hold an FX pad and it shapes your part on every phone.

Most music apps are made for one person at one screen. In plip, playing together is the main event.

plip in TOGETHER on a phone: three phones in sync, friends' critters on the party, and the mixer with YOU, PEACH SQUID and MINT FROG
Three phones on one beat. Each friend gets a critter and a fader.
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MADE TO BE SEEN

Your song, and how you played it, in a video you'd actually post.

  • One tap makes a video. The critter party dances to your song on top, and underneath, the app as you play it: every square, pad and knob you touch.
  • Ready for Reels and TikTok. 15 or 30 seconds, vertical, with a caption placed where the apps leave room for it.
  • CLIP THAT. Jamming with friends? The last 30 seconds turn into a vertical video with everyone's critters and names in the credits.
  • The Jam Wall. Post a song for anyone to hear, like and remix. Every song link previews with its own picture.

Music is more fun when someone hears it. plip makes that the easy part, and keeps sharing optional and anonymous.

STRAIGHT OUT OF PLIPA live jam, recorded right in plip, sound and picture. What you hear is exactly what the app plays: nothing edited, mixed or added afterwards. Turn the sound on.
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A CLASS THAT SEES THE WORK

A whole room making songs, and the teacher can see every one as it grows.

  • In with a word. Students type a class word or scan a QR code. No accounts, emails or names: each student is a critter.
  • See who's stuck. Every student shows a status: nothing yet, starter only, making, or handed in.
  • LISTEN IN. Tap a student's critter to hear their song as it is right now.
  • Hand-ins that tell the story. HAND IN NOW asks for songs, and each one says what the student made: from scratch, or which starting beat and what they changed.
  • Calm when you need it. HUSH EVERYONE stops every phone. GIVE EVERYONE A STARTING BEAT sends one jam to the whole class.
  • Keep it all. Keep every song on your device and download a class file with a link to each song and a column for notes or grades. Up to 60 students.

Traditional music tools stop at the student's screen. plip's classroom is made for the teacher too: who's making what, who needs help, and every song kept.

The class panel: six students as critters with their status, HUSH EVERYONE, and hand-ins with KEEP and PLAY
The teacher's view during a class.

More for teachers

AND UNDERNEATH IT ALL

A real music studio, made for a phone first.

MORE ABOUT PLIP

Sound in one tap. Nothing to install.

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