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, loop it, and tune the tempo.
For Android
Draw your own phone sounds
ToneSketch is a tiny studio for your phone. Sketch a tune with your finger, shape the sound, and set it as your ringtone, notification or alarm.
What you can make
Ringtones, notifications and alarms
Everything starts empty, on the plain sine wave, so what comes out is yours.
Notification
A short, distinctive ping in four steps. Tap in the notes, then shape the blip with sweeps, chirps and crunch until it sounds like nobody else's phone.
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 actually feels good.
Compose
Draw a melody
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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, looping.
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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.
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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.
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Roll the dice
Stuck on a blank canvas? Roll a brand-new pattern with a mix of short, long and gliding notes, or mutate what you have a little. Don't like it? Undo and it's back.
Sound
Shape the sound
Under the hood is an 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.
- Presets to start from. Glass Bell, Marimba, Old Phone, Chiptune, E-Piano, Kalimba, Soft Glow, and more for notifications and alarms.
- Basic or Advanced. A handful of sliders for quick changes, or XY pads where one finger moves two things at once.
- Mutate. Four variations of your sound to compare side by side.
- Echo and reverb. Add space, from a dry click to a big room.
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.
Save and share
Use your tones
- One tap to your phone. Make it your ringtone, notification sound or alarm. It also shows up in your phone's own sound pickers.
- Give someone their own. Set a tone for a single contact.
- Share the file. Send it to a friend, or save it as a sound file.
- Matched loudness. Saved tones are matched to the loudness of your phone's built-in sounds, so yours isn't suddenly twice as loud.
Private
No account. No ads. Nothing leaves your phone: your tones live on your device, and the app works fine offline.