Ringtone Maker & MP3 Cutter

What the app is for

Ringtone Maker & MP3 Cutter is an Android audio editor for shortening music and turning the result into a ringtone, alarm, notification sound or ordinary music file. The listing describes it as free and aims it at people who want their own phone sounds rather than store-bought ones.

Its main jobs are trimming a song to a short clip, merging or mixing tracks, pulling audio from a video, and recording live sound and trimming that. Each of these ends with the file being set as a sound on the phone.

Trimming a song to a short clip

You cut a song or track by selecting the part you want with touch, and the listing says this is precise enough to isolate just the melody. The waveform is drawn on screen and can be zoomed across five levels and scrolled, which helps when picking exact start and end points.

Each file can have a fade in, a fade out and its own volume level. That lets a cut clip start and stop smoothly instead of abruptly.

Merging and mixing music files

The app can join music files end to end and mix them together. The listing gives no further detail on how mixing is done, such as how many tracks it accepts at once.

Pulling audio from video and recording

Audio can be taken from the soundtrack of a video and used as a ringtone, so a clip from a film or a home video can become a sound on the phone. The app can also record live audio directly and then trim the best section of that recording.

Both routes use the same trimming tools as ordinary music files, so a recording or extracted clip is cut the same way as a downloaded song.

Supported formats and where the result goes

The listing names MP3, WAV, AAC, AMR and FLAC as supported, and says most other common music formats also work. Finished clips can be saved as MP3 ringtones.

Once a clip is ready it can be set as a ringtone, alarm, notification sound or general music file, so one edit can serve several sound types on the phone.