Text Message Sounds vs Ringtones
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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!
Ringtones
Create custom ringtones for your iPhone using your own music, recordings, or even videos. Easily edit, trim, and apply effects to personalize your phone's alerts. Share your creations directly to GarageBand for seamless ringtone setup.
- Create ringtones from music, recordings, and videos
- Edit audio with waveform display
- Adjust pitch, volume, and apply fade effects
- Convert iTunes music to ringtones
- Record custom sounds
- Share directly to GarageBand
- Set ringtones in-app
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A completely free ringtone creation program. The ringtone can be created without a computer connection using the iPhone. Set the song you collected as your ringtone. The recorder will allow the recording of family and friend voices as ringtones. The app will convert all (mp3 & AAC) iTunes music to ringtones. Real waveform for each of your sounds. - Import videos from the photo library to extract audio and make ringtones - Import videos from your computer and make ringtones - Import audio, music, crop, make ringtones Key ringtone maker features: => Automatically convert and share the made ringtones to GarageBand, set the phone ringtone easily. => easily adjust start and end markers => fade in and out option => pitch and volume adjust => trim & cut tones => Create Unlimited Ringtones => Record your sounds => Convert your iTunes music to ringtone => Set Ringtones in-app => Convert any video that you have in your gallery to Ringtones The ringtone can be created by any iPhone user. If a problem arises during the production of the ringtone, please contact us directly via the app's contact method to receive free one-on-one assistance. Now is the time to create and personalize your ringtones! [Contact us] Gmail: karthikbakshi9@gmail.com Your suggestions are very important to me.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Text Message Sounds at none against Ringtones's 2. Text Message Sounds also leads on review sentiment (45% vs 20%) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 14). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Ringtones sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Text Message Sounds asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.8 for Text Message Sounds against 3.9 for Ringtones. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 99 and 91 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 45% of Text Message Sounds's written reviews are positive against 20% of Ringtones's.
Text Message Sounds ships an update every 19 months, Ringtones every 12 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Text Message Sounds | Ringtones |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (99 ratings) | 3.9 (91 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 45.5% of reviews — better | 20.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 99 — better | 91 |
| Update frequency | Every 19 months | Every 12 months — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 14 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 110 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Catherine Lopez | Karthik Bakshi |
Customer experience
Text Message Sounds
Ringtones
In-app purchases
Text Message Sounds
No in-app purchases
Ringtones
- Buy Month Get Three Day Free3 Days trial$1.991 Month
- Upgrade to Pro$3.99
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