Ringtone Maker
Open a song or a video, drag out the bit you want, fade the ends and download it. Nothing is uploaded and there is nothing to subscribe to. Is it worth paying for a ringtone app?
Nothing open yet. Most formats work: MP3, M4A, WAV, FLAC, OGG, and the audio inside an MP4 or MOV.
Drag across the wave to pick a section, drag the handles to adjust it, or drag the middle to slide the whole window. The arrow keys nudge a handle by a tenth of a second, and hold shift for a whole second.
Shape it
A fade out matters more than you would think: a ringtone that stops mid note sounds broken when the call is answered.
Listen
This plays exactly what the file will contain, fades and all.
Download
WAV is uncompressed, so every phone accepts it and the file is large. MP3 is a tenth of the size and just as widely accepted. Both are made here in your browser.
Getting it onto your phone
iPhone
Apple does not let a web page, or any app other than its own, install a ringtone directly. That restriction is the whole business model of the apps in the chart, which will happily make you a tone and then charge a weekly subscription to put it on your phone. There are two free ways round it, and both work with the file this page gives you.
- With GarageBand, on the phone itself. Install GarageBand, which is free from Apple. Save or AirDrop the file to your iPhone, open GarageBand, start any project, tap the loop icon, choose Files, then Browse items from the Files app and pick your file. Drag it onto a track. Then go back to My Songs, press and hold the project, choose Share, then Ringtone, name it and export. It appears under Settings, Sounds, Ringtone.
- With a Mac. Plug the phone in, open it in Finder, and drag the file onto the phone's Tones section. Finder converts it for you.
Android
Much simpler. Download the file, then open Settings, Sound and vibration, Phone ringtone, and choose Add or My sounds and pick it. Some phones want the file in a Ringtones folder first; your file manager can move it. For a text tone, the same list appears under Notification sound.
Notes
- Apple's lengths. A ringtone can run to 40 seconds and an alert tone to 30. The picker above enforces whichever you chose, so you cannot accidentally make something the phone will refuse.
- Video files work. Only the audio is read, so a clip from a film or a voice note recorded on a phone is fine.
- No iPhone .m4r here, deliberately. Making one needs an AAC encoder that most browsers do not expose, and shipping a button that quietly fails on your machine would be worse than not having it. The GarageBand route above takes the WAV or MP3 and produces the same result.
- Nothing leaves your device. The file is decoded, trimmed and encoded in this tab. There is no upload, no account and no watermark. Use other people's music only where you are allowed to.