Rapid Review: Ringtone Designer - Rock It Out
Ringtone Designer Pro ($1.99) Apple may be taking away ringtones, but the App Store sure isn’t. Ringtone Designer lets you make a ringtone from any track on your iPhone with a few taps. You simply start the app, and then it takes you to your iPod, and you pick the song you want to make a ringtone of.
Next you get the song laid out, and you drag knobs to the section of the song you want as a ringtone. You save it, and then the next time you have your iPhone connected to iTunes go the the Apps section, and the file sharing section. Then you can save any ringtones you created to your computer, and drag back into iTunes, and sync the ringtone on to your device.
That’s it, and it’s a one time $1.99 fee for as many ringtones as you create. You can do this for free on many sites, so keep that in mind, but it’s pretty simple on the iPhone. I created a few ringtones, and had them back on my iPhone in minutes.
The knobs don’t offer the most precision with editing the beginning and end of your ringtone. There isn’t a time stamp so you don’t know exactly where you are in the song. You can edit and play the bit of the song you want live which makes it easy to have it start exactly where you want. It’s not quite the same at the end as you have to hear the whole 15 or so seconds rather than one like at the beginning.
You do get to see how long your ringtone is at the top of the app so it helps tweak the back end. The app doesn’t allow you to fade in and out of the ringtone, but what it lacks in customization it makes up for in ease of use. Apple restrictions require you to go through iTunes to get the ringtone, but it’s not very difficult at all, and not worth complaining about.
For $1.99 Ringtone Designer is worth picking up if you ever want to make ringtones really easily on the go.
