For Android

Create your own phone sounds

ToneSketch helps you create unique and personalized ringtones and notification sounds for your phone. Sketch your notes with your finger, shape the sound and tone with the unique FM synth engine, and set it as your ringtone, notification or alarm.

See what it does
ToneSketch's library: a list of your ringtones, notification sounds and alarms with a small sketch of each
The compose screen: a melody drawn over a pitch grid, with a glide line sliding between notes

What you can make

Ringtones, notifications and alarms

A canvas for you to explore unique sounds and melodies for your phone.

Ringtone

Draw a melody across two or four bars. Lines turn into notes on a grid locked to a scale, so whatever you sketch sounds good. Tap single notes, glide between pitches, sculpt the sonic characteristics, and tune the tempo.

Notification

A short, distinctive ping in four steps. Tap in the notes, then shape the sound to your heart's content.

Alarm

Build up to four chords and strum them like a guitar. Let the strum repeat on the beat and walk the chord up or down through its inversions for a wake-up that is your own.

Compose

Draw a melody

  1. 01

    Sketch with your finger

    Drag across the canvas and your line becomes notes, snapped to the scale you've chosen. Choose quarter, eighth or sixteenth notes, and shorten or lengthen them. Everything you draw plays straight back.

    A melody drawn on the compose screen
  2. 02

    Slide, select, move

    The Glide pen bends smoothly from one pitch to the next. The Edit pen picks up notes: tap one, or drag a box round several, then drag them up or down together. The Erase pen is there when you change your mind.

    A glide note selected with the Edit pen
  3. 03

    Pick a mood

    Thirteen scales, from Bright, Calm and Moody to Dramatic, Zen and Floating. Every note you can draw is in key, so it can't sound wrong. Change mood or octave halfway through and your melody simply moves with it.

    The mood list: Bright, Calm, Dreamy, Moody, Dark, Spice, Retro, Sunny, Wistful, Dramatic, Zen, Open and Floating
  4. 04

    Roll the dice

    Stuck on a blank canvas or need more inspiration? Roll a brand-new pattern with a mix of short, long and gliding notes, or mutate what you already have a little.

    The dice menu: roll the dice, or mutate

Sound

Shape the sound

Under the hood is a three operator FM synthesiser, the technology behind a lot of classic bells, electric pianos and arcade bleeps. You don't need to know that. Start from a preset and move things until it sounds right.

Basic sound controls: sliders for brightness, metallic, swell, note length, wobble and reverb
Basic: a few sliders
Advanced sound controls: six XY pads
Advanced: XY pads
Landscape: one large XY pad with the other controls beside it
Turn it sideways: one big pad to play

Alarms

Alarms made of chords

Alarms are built from up to four chords. Pick a root note for each and ToneSketch stacks a chord on it from your mood's scale.

  • Strum speed. From all notes together to a slow, lazy sweep.
  • Direction. Down, up, or alternating.
  • Repeat on the beat. Strum again every half, quarter or eighth note, dotted or triplet if you like.
  • Move the chord. Each repeat can climb or fall through the chord's inversions.
  • Tempo sets the length. A slower tempo gives a longer, calmer alarm.
An alarm made of four chords, with strum speed, repeat and move controls
The same alarm with the strum set to repeat every quarter note and move up and down

Private

No account. No ads. Nothing leaves your phone: your tones live on your device, and the app works fine offline.