New Text Tones vs Ringtone Garage
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
New Text Tones
Personalize your iPhone with over 100 new text alert sounds. Assign unique tones to individual contacts for easy identification, even when your phone is out of sight. Explore diverse categories like music, sound effects, and holiday themes.
- Over 100 new text tones
- Custom tones per contact
- 15+ tone categories
- Unlimited downloads
- Share with friends
- Save money on tones
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Download the app and get over 100+ NEW TEXT TONES to personalize your iPhone. Sick of the same boring tones and sounds on your phone? Add some personality to your iPhone. SET A CUSTOM TONE FOR EACH FRIEND Want to hear a unique tone each time you’re your friend sends a text message? Download this app! Perfect for when your phone is in your pocket or while you are driving. OVER 15 CATEGORIES * Loud text tones * Quiet text tones * Relaxing text tones * Funny text tones * Holiday text tones * Sound effects and Pets * Music text tones UNLIMITED DOWNLOADS * Download this app and you can download as many tones as you want. * Share with friends. * Stop paying for each tone. Save money Crafted with detail from the #1 Ringtone and Alert Tone Developer on AppStore since 2009.
Ringtone Garage
Easily create custom ringtones from your existing music library. This app offers a sound wave preview to precisely cut your favorite song fragments. It supports creating unique sounds for alerts like SMS, emails, and calendar events.
- Create custom ringtones
- Use songs from iPhone music library
- Sound wave preview for precise cutting
- Custom alerts for SMS, email, calendar
- 3-in-1 ringtone making functionality
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Make ringtones from songs in your iPhone music library. Ringtone Garage is the fastest and easiest way to create custom ringtones for your iPhone anytime you want to. Simply the best Ringtone Making app on the AppStore. Ringtone Garage is actually 3-in-1 app that makes it stand out of from other similar apps. Now you can simply create your own sounds, from your favorite music, for every single sound you have on your iPhone: · Ringtone · SMS · Email · Calendar · Reminders etc. Real Sound Wave preview helps you to cut out the right fragment of your favorite music! Try and experience all Ringtone Garage's features once and don’t waste your time and money on similar apps on the AppStore. You can get Pro features through auto-renewing subscription and if you want to continue getting premium features, your subscription should be continued. 3 Monthly subscription costs $1.99 (or equivalent) and renews automatically every three month, unless you cancel it through your iTunes account 1 year subscription costs $9.99 (or equivalent), free trial - 3 days and renews automatically every year, unless you cancel it through your iTunes account Prices are in U.S. dollars, may vary in countries other than the U.S. and are subject to change with notice. Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Your subscription automatically renews unless auto-renewal is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current subscription. Your account will be charged for a renewed subscription within 24 hours prior to the end of current subscription. You can manage your subscription and switch off the auto-renewal by accessing your account settings after purchase. You cannot cancel the current subscription during the active subscription period. Any unused part or time-span of a free trial period will be forfeited, as soon as you purchase a subscription. more information can be found on the following links: Terms of use: https://lmddata.blob.core.windows.net/ringtonegarage/RingtoneGarageTerms.html?sig=s1tkKJ8yKpYYBdWMTo2ngiMWtetwP1g12tE1%2BMg8xaE%3D&se=2024-05-14T06%3A45%3A33Z&sv=2019-02-02&sp=r&sr=b Privacy policy: http://lemondo.com/privacy We want to hear your suggestions, likes, complains.. Please leave your feedback, rate us on the AppStore or use the contact link to stay in touch. Download Ringtone garage right now and get all those features for free. We are working constantly to improve app performance and user experience. To get your feedbacks easily & make the process convenient, you can send us your questions & suggestions directly from the app "Settings”. Your suggestions are valuable for us! If you like Ringtone garage, don’t forget to rate us on AppStore! ;) Happy Ringtone making!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: New Text Tones at none against Ringtone Garage's shown. New Text Tones also leads on rating (4.1 vs 3.8) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 9 months). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. New Text Tones sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Ringtone Garage sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 3 months. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
New Text Tones holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5.4K and 5K respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 53% of New Text Tones's written reviews are positive against 57% of Ringtone Garage's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
New Text Tones ships an update every 2 months, Ringtone Garage every 9 months. Both last shipped on October 29, 2026.
| Parameter | New Text Tones | Ringtone Garage |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (5.4K ratings) — better | 3.8 (5K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 53.1% of reviews | 57.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5.4K — better | 5K |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 9 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 6.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 59 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mobgen Apps Inc | Lemondo Apps LLc |
Customer experience
New Text Tones
Ringtone Garage
Bugs and requests
New Text Tones
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Ringtone Garage
Reported bugs
3 issues- Doesn't recognize user's music library
- Ringtone creation process doesn't work as advertised
- Incompatible with certain devices/OS versions
Requested features
4 requests- Allow more than 2 free ringtones
- Ability to delete saved ringtones
- Simplify process to set ringtone on phone
- Add direct ringtone creation on phone
In-app purchases
New Text Tones
- Text Tones Upgrade 1$0.99
- Text Tones Upgrade 2$0.99
- Make unlimited Music Tones and Disable Ads$1.99
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- Unlock All$1.99
Ringtone Garage
- 3-Months$2.993 Months
- Annual3 Days trial$9.991 Year
- Lifetime$14.99
Questions
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