Online Harp

How the Online Harp Works

This free online harp gives you a soft, shimmering harp sound in your browser, with no download, install or sign-up. It uses recorded harp samples across 37 strings, perfect for gentle melodies, arpeggios and relaxing background music. A progress circle shows while the sounds load, and you can play as soon as every note is ready.

Play with Keyboard, Mouse or Touch

Pluck the strings by clicking them with a mouse, tapping them on a touch screen, or using your computer keyboard. The bottom letter row and the row above, followed by the top letter row and the number row, run across the strings in order from low to high. The Keys and Notes buttons show or hide the labels, and the Play guide shows the layout.

Strings and Glissando

Drag your mouse or finger across the strings for a glissando, the classic harp sweep. Just like on a real harp, the red strings are C and the blue strings are F, which helps you find your place quickly. Notes ring out naturally, and the Sustain Pedal is on by default, with the space bar acting as a pedal when held.

Transpose, Volume and Sound Settings

The Sound panel groups its round knobs into Notes, Space, Tone and Master. Notes controls playback speed, transpose, sustain length and touch dynamics, Space adds reverb, room size and echo, Tone shapes bass, mid, treble and warmth, and Master sets stereo width, compression and overall volume. Drag a knob up or down to change it, double-click to reset it, or pick a ready preset such as Concert hall, Warm vintage or Cathedral. The Transpose buttons move the harp up or down by semitones to match a singer or another instrument, the volume slider goes up to 200 percent, and your settings are remembered for your next visit.

Record, Play Back and Download

Recording is built in. Press Record, play the harp, and watch your performance appear on a timeline. You can play it back, select a section by dragging across it and clear the take to start over, and the Demo button gives you a ready tune to record. When you are ready, the Download panel saves an MP3 or WAV file, with options for bitrate, sample rate, mono or stereo, the whole recording or the selected part, level normalizing, ringing last notes, silence trimming and fade in or fade out. Your audio is processed in your own browser and never leaves your device.

Works on Every Screen

You can use it on a laptop, tablet or phone, because the layout scales to fit the screen. Switch the theme between light and dark or open full screen with the small buttons at the top right.