Ringtone maker
Cut a piece out of a song and turn it into a ringtone your phone will accept.
Making a ringtone is a small job that a whole category of paid apps exists to charge for. On iPhone it means taking up to forty seconds of audio, encoding it as AAC and giving the file the extension .m4r — which is an .m4a renamed, and is the entire trick. On Android it means a plain MP3. Play the song, find the part you want, mark the start, and take it.
How to use it
- Add the song, and choose iPhone or Android.
- Play it, find the part you want, and press Start here.
- Set the length, press Make the ringtone, and download it.
Why use this tool
Completely private
Everything runs inside your browser. Your files and text are never sent to a server.
Free, with no limits
No sign-up, no watermarks and no cap on how many times you can use it.
Instant results
There is no upload or queue to wait for, so results appear as fast as your device can work.
Works on any device
Runs in any modern browser on phone, tablet or desktop. Nothing to install.
Frequently asked questions
- How do I get the ringtone onto my iPhone?
- It has to go through a computer, which is Apple's rule rather than ours. Connect the phone by cable and drag the .m4r file into it in Finder on a Mac, or into the Tones section in iTunes on Windows. Then pick it under Settings, Sounds, Ringtone.
- Why is forty seconds the limit?
- Because iPhone refuses anything longer when it syncs. The cap is applied here so you find out now rather than after the file is on your computer.
- What is an .m4r file?
- An .m4a with a different extension. It is AAC audio in an MPEG-4 container, exactly like the music files themselves, and the extension is only there so the phone knows what the file is for.
- How do I put one on an Android phone?
- Choose Android to get an MP3, copy it into the Ringtones folder on the phone, then pick it in Settings under Sound. No cable or computer is needed if you download it on the phone itself.
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