New Text Tones vs Text Message Sounds +
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.
Text Message Sounds +
Access a collection of over 65 popular and funny sound effects and ringtones. Easily set these sounds for text message notifications, alerts, or alarms. This app groups popular downloaded notification sounds into one convenient place.
- Over 65 funny ringtones
- Sound effects for notifications
- Alerts and alarms
- Easy to use interface
- Grouped popular sounds
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Text message sounds includes some of the most popular text message sounds and ringtones at the tap of a button. Tap to listen to over 65 funny ringtones and sound effects perfect for a text message notification, alert, alarm and more. Text message sounds features some of the most downloaded funny text message notification sounds grouped together in one easy to use application. - text message sounds - easy to use - simple interface - new sounds
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Text Message Sounds + at none against New Text Tones's 4. New Text Tones's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 19 months). On price, rating and device support 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. Text Message Sounds + asks for nothing beyond the download.
New Text Tones holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: New Text Tones has 5.4K ratings behind it against 275, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 53% of New Text Tones's written reviews are positive against 27% of Text Message Sounds +'s.
New Text Tones ships an update every 2 months, Text Message Sounds + every 19 months. Both last shipped on September 22, 2026.
| Parameter | New Text Tones | Text Message Sounds + |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (5.4K ratings) — better | 3.9 (275 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 53.0% of reviews — better | 27.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5.4K — better | 275 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 19 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 6.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Mobgen Apps Inc | Jason Torres |
Customer experience
New Text Tones
Text Message Sounds +
Bugs and requests
New Text Tones
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Text Message Sounds +
Reported bugs
6 issues- Not Working ???
- Literally, nothing happens.
- All I saw was an ad for a game, closed the ad and got a blank screen
- As soon as the app is opened it pops up with an add. Normally adds don’t bother me but when the x appears you can’t click on it, all is does is pop up with ‘copy’.
- Goes straight to a solitaire game app
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- There is no way to see apps in iTunes any more so instructions are useless. Unless the developer has a new way of downloading these this app does not work.
Requested features
3 requests- Provide clear instructions for downloading tones
- Offer a way to download tones without a computer
- Improve ad functionality (clickable 'x')
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
Text Message Sounds +
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is New Text Tones free?
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