Custom Alert Tones & Sounds vs Text Message Sounds
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Custom Alert Tones & Sounds
Personalize your phone with over 1,000 new alert tones and create your own from songs or recordings. Set unique sounds for contacts and notifications to easily identify alerts.
- Over 1,000 new alert tones
- Create tones from songs
- Record custom sounds
- Set unique tones for contacts
- Unlimited downloads
- HD audio quality
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Choose from over 1,000 *brand new* alert tones PLUS make your own alert tones from your favorite songs! Unlimited Downloads. Perfect for New Text Tones, New Email Tones, New Voicemail tones. Sick of the same boring tones and sounds on your phone? Add some personality to your iPhone. CUSTOMIZE ANY OF THE FOLLOWING SOUNDS * Ringtone * Text Tone * New voicemail * New email * Sent email * Tweet * Facebook post * Calendar alert * Reminder alert * Airdrop * Wake-up call TONS TO CHOOSE FROM Music, relaxing tones, sound effects, funny sounds, emergency sirens, pets and animals, explosions, lasers, video games, classical music, gross tones, crazy men and women, and tons more! 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 SET A CUSTOM TONE FOR EACH FRIEND Set a unique text tone for each friend! Hear who texted you! Perfect for when your phone is in your pocket or while you are driving. NEW! Now you can also make your own ringtones or alert tones * Make ringtones or alert tones from your favorite songs * Record ringtones also! * Create extra long 40 second ringtones * HD Audio quality * Make up to 3 ringtones. Upgrade to make unlimited number of ringtones. Crafted with detail from the #1 Ringtone and Alert Tone Developer on AppStore since 2009.
Text Message Sounds
Discover a wide variety of sound effects and ringtones specifically designed for text message alerts. Easily preview and save your favorite sounds to personalize your notifications. Enjoy a collection of loud, funny, and popular alert tones.
- Popular sound effects for alerts
- Customizable text message ringtones
- Save favorite sounds
- Loud ringtones
- Funny sound effects
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Text message sounds includes popular sound effects perfect for a text message ringtone or any kind of alert tone. Simply tap a button to listen to the text message sound effects and ringtones. Easily save your favorite as a custom text message sound. Text message sounds includes: Loud text message ringtones easy and safe to use save your favorite text message sound funny sound effects and many more Enjoy these free text message sound effects!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Text Message Sounds at Free against Custom Alert Tones & Sounds's $0.99. Text Message Sounds also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1). Custom Alert Tones & Sounds's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 19 months). On monetization model 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
Text Message Sounds is free to download; Custom Alert Tones & Sounds costs $0.99 up front. Custom Alert Tones & Sounds sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Text Message Sounds asks for nothing beyond the download.
Custom Alert Tones & Sounds holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Custom Alert Tones & Sounds has 498 ratings behind it against 99, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 64% of Custom Alert Tones & Sounds's written reviews are positive against 45% of Text Message Sounds's.
Custom Alert Tones & Sounds ships an update every 2 months, Text Message Sounds every 19 months. Both last shipped on November 1, 2026.
| Parameter | Custom Alert Tones & Sounds | Text Message Sounds |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.0 (498 ratings) — better | 3.8 (99 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 63.6% of reviews — better | 45.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 498 — better | 99 |
| 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 | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #53 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 6.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Mobgen Apps Inc | Catherine Lopez |
Customer experience
Custom Alert Tones & Sounds
Text Message Sounds
Bugs and requests
Custom Alert Tones & Sounds
Reported bugs
3 issues- App crashes when trying to create tones
- Tones don't sync properly with iTunes
- Incompatible with certain iPhone models
Requested features
3 requests- More extensive and diverse tone collections
- Ability to directly download tones to device
- Support for newer iOS versions
Text Message Sounds
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Custom Alert Tones & Sounds
- Create Alert Tones from your favorite songs$1.99
Text Message Sounds
No in-app purchases
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