Ringtone maker

How it works

1. 1

   Add a song

   Drop an audio file, or a video, to use its soundtrack. It stays on your device.

2. 2

   Pick the moment

   Find the hook on the waveform (click to listen), keep it under 40 seconds, and add fades.

3. 3

   Download

   M4R for iPhone or MP3 for Android.

What a phone will actually accept as a ringtone

The two platforms disagree about almost everything here. An iPhone wants an M4R file, which is an AAC track with a different extension, and it rejects anything longer than 40 seconds outright. Android is far more relaxed: an ordinary MP3 dropped in the right folder will do, and the length is a matter of taste rather than a rule.

The 40 second cap turns out to be good advice rather than an obstacle. A ringtone is heard from the start every single time, so only the first few seconds are ever really heard at all, and a phone that rings for longer than 40 seconds has already gone to voicemail. Choosing the hook and cutting straight to it is the entire craft.

That is also why the cut should land on the beat and open at full volume. A ringtone that begins with two seconds of a track's quiet intro sounds like the phone is broken for those two seconds, and by the time the recognizable part arrives the call has been answered. A very short fade in prevents a click without costing you the opening.

Make a ringtone from any song, with nothing uploaded

The track is loaded from your own device, the waveform is drawn from it locally, and the ringtone is cut and encoded on your machine. No upload, no account, no watermark, and no audio tag spliced onto a file you are going to hear several times a day.

Music files are exactly the sort of thing people are asked to hand over casually, and there is no reason to. Cutting 30 seconds out of a song does not require a server to hold the song.

Both formats come out of the same cut, so you can take the M4R to an iPhone and the MP3 to an Android without doing the work twice. If the audio is currently inside a video, the audio extractor will pull it out first.

Why nothing uploads

Other tools send your video to their servers, which costs them money per file, so they add watermarks, cap file sizes, and make you sign up. This tool does the work right here in your browser using your own device. Your file is never uploaded, so there is no wait, no watermark, no size limit, and no account.

Questions

How do I get the ringtone onto my iPhone?

Download the M4R, connect your iPhone, and drag the file onto the phone in Finder (macOS) or iTunes (Windows). It appears under Settings → Sounds → Ringtone.

How do I set it on Android?

Copy the MP3 to your phone (cable, drive, or chat with yourself), then pick it in Settings → Sound → Phone ringtone.

Why 40 seconds max?

iPhones reject ringtones longer than 40 seconds. It's also about as much of a chorus as anyone wants to hear per call.

Can I make a ringtone from a video?

Yes, drop the video and its soundtrack is used.

Does my song get uploaded?

No. The ringtone is cut in your browser; the file never leaves your device.

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