Ringtone Maker

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Click to upload or drag and drop

Audio files only (Max 10MB)

ℹī¸ How it works:
  • Upload your song or audio file
  • Drag on the waveform to pick the part you want
  • Add a fade, choose MP3 or M4R, and download

Make a Ringtone from a Song

Pick the part of a track you actually want to hear when the phone rings. Upload the song, drag on the waveform to select up to 40 seconds, add a fade in and out if you want the edges smooth, and download it as an MP3 for Android or an M4R for iPhone. Both are encoded at 192 kbps, so the clip sounds the same as the source. No sign-up and no watermarks.

How to Make a Ringtone from a Song

  1. Click the upload area above or drag and drop your audio file (up to 10 MB).
  2. Drag the highlighted region on the waveform — or type exact start and end times — to choose your clip.
  3. Turn the fade in and fade out on or off.
  4. Pick MP3 (Android) or M4R (iPhone), then download.

Features

  • Visual waveform editor – see the song and drag to pick the exact part
  • In-browser preview – hear your selection before making the ringtone
  • Fade in / fade out – up to 1.5 seconds each, shortened automatically on very short clips so the two never overlap
  • MP3 or M4R – MP3 for Android, M4R (AAC in an iPod container) for iPhone
  • Up to 40 seconds – the length Apple allows for a ringtone
  • 192 kbps output – high enough that the clip is indistinguishable from the original

Picking the Right Part of the Song

A ringtone is heard for a few seconds, from a pocket, usually while you are doing something else — so the part that works is rarely the part you would choose to listen to. Start on something immediately recognisable: a hook, a riff, the first line of a chorus. Avoid a long quiet intro, because the first two seconds are all most calls ever get. The waveform helps here — the busiest-looking section is usually the one that cuts through.

Getting It onto Your Phone

  • iPhone – download the .m4r, connect the phone, and drag the file into Finder (macOS) or iTunes (Windows). It then appears under Settings → Sounds & Haptics → Ringtone. Apple does not let a website install a ringtone directly, so this step happens on your own computer.
  • Android – download the MP3 and move it into the Ringtones folder on the phone, then pick it under Settings → Sound → Phone ringtone. Many Android phones also let you set any MP3 straight from the file manager by long-pressing it.

When You Might Need This

  • Turning a song into a ringtone you actually like, rather than the phone's defaults
  • Setting a song as your ringtone when the phone only offers its own built-in list
  • A different tone for one particular contact, so you know who is calling
  • An alarm sound that will genuinely wake you
  • A notification or text tone cut from something short and distinctive
  • A recognisable clip for a work phone or an on-call rota
  • A ringtone from a voice recording, a film line or a sound effect rather than music

Frequently Asked Questions

Upload the song, drag the region on the waveform over the part you want, choose MP3 or M4R, and download. The whole thing takes about a minute and needs no software installed. The one step this page cannot do for you is putting the file on the phone — see the sections above for how that works on iPhone and Android.

Download the .m4r file, connect your iPhone, and drag it in using Finder on macOS or iTunes on Windows. It then shows up under Settings → Sounds & Haptics → Ringtone. Apple does not permit a website to install a ringtone directly, so that last step always happens through your own computer — that is an iOS restriction rather than a limitation of this tool.

Considerably more easily than on iPhone. Download the MP3 straight to the phone or copy it across, then either long-press the file in your file manager and choose Set as ringtone, or move it into the Ringtones folder and select it under Settings → Sound → Phone ringtone. Android treats any MP3 as a valid ringtone, so no special format is needed.

An M4R is simply AAC audio in an MP4-style container with a different extension — technically the same thing as an M4A, renamed so iOS recognises it as a ringtone rather than a music track. Choose it for iPhone. Choose MP3 for Android, or if you are not sure which phone the file is going on, since practically everything plays MP3.

Up to 40 seconds, which is the limit iOS enforces on a ringtone. If you select a longer region, it is cut to 40 seconds from your start point rather than being rejected — so the beginning of your selection is what you keep. In practice 15 to 30 seconds is plenty; a call rarely rings for longer than that before it is answered or goes to voicemail.

The fade out, almost always — it stops the clip ending on an abrupt chop. The fade in is more of a judgement call: it softens a cut that starts mid-note, but it also means the first moment is quieter, which is exactly the moment a ringtone needs to grab you. If your clip starts cleanly on a beat, leave the fade in off. Each fade runs up to 1.5 seconds, and shortens automatically on a very short clip so the two never overlap.

Both cut a section from a file, but this page is built for the destination. It caps the clip at the 40 seconds iOS requires, offers the fades a ringtone wants, and can output M4R, which Trim Audio cannot. Use the trimmer for a general-purpose clip; use this one when the result is going on a phone.

One audio file up to 10 MB, which comfortably covers a normal-length song as an MP3. If your file is larger — a lossless FLAC or WAV, typically — run it through Compress Audio first, or Trim Audio to cut out roughly the right region before uploading it here.

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