Bored of that same ringtone that greets you with every call? You’re not alone. Finding the perfect ringtone, the one that speaks to your sole, can be, well, a selfish pursuit. iPhone aficionados have it a bit easier when it comes to choosing the main theme tune that lets the world know that your phone is ringing. Here’s a list of our favourite free ringtone apps and websites, so you’ll never have to settle for Marimba again.
Next we come to ‘Jerome Melis’s “Ringtones for iPhone: Music” app, which offers more than 800 ringtones. And all of them are free! Navigate through different categories to find the best one just for you. Don’t be so committed? Tap a Heart icon.
Have you ever wished you could reach into a library where radio tunes and TikTok treats collide? With Tuunes, now you can. The app’s catalogue of licensed ringtones is so massive that you no longer need an iTunes account or a PC. Just tap here and there, and your iPhone will lead you step-by-step through the process of setting your ringtone – directly on your iPhone.
Alternatives are always good, especially when they bring something new, or rather, in this case, something new to your ear. Ringtones adds to your options and organises sounds from ASMR to Animals and everything in between, while the Editor tab is a personal composition tool for sound professionals in the making.
When it comes to customisation, Zedge does ringtones. And, I mean, it really does ringtones. Here are Bollywood beats. Over here are some Hip-Hop vibes. Tap this one, this ringtone is all yours. Now, tap that, and watch as your iPhone settings want to take you to your back-up PC.
That much is true of Melofania, a site that allows you to turn any YouTube video or file you upload into a customised ringtone. It returns the power to the people – or the people’s fingers – by allowing you to tap along to whichever song you choose, crop, edit, remix and end up with a handful of sound that’s ready to be downloaded.
And those who can’t keep up with the latest tunes can turn to Audiko, whose organised library doesn’t just sort songs into genres, but also into collections of songs currently all the rage, from the TikTok versions we know and love, to the other top songs. Anyone with an iPhone will use a browser when downloading, which is a quick process that takes you from a web click to an in-cart ringtone.
Tapping is no longer an ephemeral physical gesture: it transports users into a universe of possibilities. Within this resonant world, tapping for selection or confirmation is not just about selecting something or choosing among available options. It’s about digital exploration, where, with only the tap of a finger, users can project themselves, in a click or an instant, to that perfect aural index not of their dreams, but one that helps define their selection. And all for free.
Whether they facilitate the sequence or give you total creative freedom, in form there are so many similarities: it’s as simple as a few taps on an app to choose the ringtone you want to find, another few taps on an app or site to create the custom ringtone you’ll use, and another few taps still to assign the ringtone to a contact. What’s common to all those examples is how the maintaining and expressing of ringtones requires a digital fluency that treats our smartphones not simply as a phone, but as a reflection of our digital personas, a little sliver of our personality in the vast call-ringing orchestra.
With the number of times any one of us can put down a hard-earned buck still a closely guarded secret, our tonal decisions differentiate us – one tap at a time. Our ringtones can hug, boast, reminisce, or introduce our latest musical infatuation. Our ringtone is a musical tattoo – a way of telling the world who we are – every time it goes off.
And now let your taps dance through this tune to your very own theme song, lifting your everyday tap from the doldrums into a blaring and quivering, towel-wrangling, dish-drying babel of personal blast. With these apps and websites at your disposal, the perfect ringtone is but a tap away.
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