Your phone,
your ringtone.
Any song, voice memo, or video's audio — trimmed to the part you love and exported as an iPhone ringtone or an Android MP3. No app store, no account, and the file never leaves your device.
Short answer: open the audio trimmer, add the song (or a video — the audio is pulled out automatically), drag to select up to 40 seconds, and export M4R for iPhone or MP3 for Android. In our test, a 12-second cut came out at 182 KB as M4R and 282 KB as 192 kbps MP3.
By the Tool Pantry team, October 2026. Measured with Chrome 155 on macOS using a 12-second audio track; the M4R output was verified as AAC/MP4, the format iPhones accept.
The 3-step version
- Add the source — an MP3, WAV, M4A, or the video itself (MP4/MOV). The waveform appears once it decodes.
- Select the part — drag across the waveform. The "30 s ringtone preset" button is a fast start: it grabs the first 30 seconds and adds a fade-out. Press Play selection to check it.
- Export and install — M4R for iPhone, MP3 for Android.
Installing an iPhone ringtone (the part nobody explains)
Apple doesn't let you set a ringtone from the Files app — the file has to arrive through Finder or iTunes:
- Download the .m4r file and connect the iPhone to a Mac (Finder) or PC (iTunes).
- Drag the .m4r into the Tones section of the device (it appears alongside Music, Movies, Books).
- On the phone: Settings → Sounds & Haptics → Ringtone — your clip is at the top of the list.
The 40-second cap is Apple's, not ours: iPhone ringtones stop at 40 s. The trimmer warns you if your selection is longer and exports the first 40 s. Android has no such ritual — download the MP3, open it, and pick "Set as ringtone" (or select it in the sound settings).
What we measured
A 12-second cut from a video's audio track exported to 181.6 KB as M4R (AAC, 48 kHz) and 281.8 KB as 192 kbps MP3 — both produced in seconds, on our machine, with the source never uploaded. That's the honest size math: ringtones are small because they're short; the quality dial matters less than picking the right 30 seconds.
Picking a good ringtone section
The best ringtones are recognizable in two seconds — the hook, the chorus drop, the first bar of the intro. Skip long buildups: by the time the good part arrives, you've already answered. And use the fade-out: an abrupt cut sounds broken, a 2-second fade sounds intentional. The preset does exactly that.
The honest parts
Making a ringtone for your own phone from music you own is personal use in most countries — but don't redistribute the clips, and this tool deliberately can't download from streaming platforms (it works on files you already have; our guide on extracting audio from video covers the file side). One more thing worth knowing: if the source is a low-bitrate stream rip, the ringtone will sound like one — trimming can't add quality, only keep it. Record your own instead? The voice recorder captures audio straight to MP3 and feeds this same trimmer.
How do I make a ringtone from a song?
Open the audio trimmer, add the song, drag on the waveform to select up to 40 seconds, and export as M4R for iPhone or MP3 for Android. The whole thing runs in your browser — no app, no account, and the song is never uploaded.
What format do iPhone ringtones need?
M4R — which is AAC audio in an MP4 container, capped at 40 seconds. This tool exports it directly; you then drag the file into Finder (macOS) or iTunes (Windows) under Tones and pick it in Settings → Sounds.
Can I make a ringtone from a video?
Yes — drop the MP4 or MOV straight into the trimmer. Its audio track is decoded automatically, you trim it like any audio file, and export. No separate extraction step.
Is this legal?
Making a ringtone for your own phone from music you own is widely treated as personal use in most countries. Don't redistribute or sell the clips — and don't use this to bypass any streaming platform's download rules, which this tool doesn't touch.