Dev_Tones
UI and Menu sounds for your app
Stop scouring the web for random sound effects. Our collection of basic and beautiful UI sounds has every sound your app needs. Includes 600+ royalty-free tones professionally mastered for mobile.
Free
Free Examples
You are free to use the sounds on this tab royalty-free (with attribution). Click to preview. Download here.
New
New (101 subtly designed acoustic sounds, inspired by Material Design)
We've provided a few preview sounds for each category, but we ask that you not rip these for use in your projects without purchasing the license.
Beeps
Beeps
We've provided a few preview sounds for each category, but we ask that you not rip these for use in your projects without purchasing the license.
Chimes
Chimes
We've provided a few preview sounds for each category, but we ask that you not rip these for use in your projects without purchasing the license.
Clicks
Clicks
We've provided a few preview sounds for each category, but we ask that you not rip these for use in your projects without purchasing the license.
Digi
Digi
We've provided a few preview sounds for each category, but we ask that you not rip these for use in your projects without purchasing the license.
Etc
Etc
We've provided a few preview sounds for each category, but we ask that you not rip these for use in your projects without purchasing the license.
Musical
Musical
We've provided a few preview sounds for each category, but we ask that you not rip these for use in your projects without purchasing the license.
Pads
Pads
We've provided a few preview sounds for each category, but we ask that you not rip these for use in your projects without purchasing the license.
Pops
Pops
We've provided a few preview sounds for each category, but we ask that you not rip these for use in your projects without purchasing the license.
Zaps
Zaps
We've provided a few preview sounds for each category, but we ask that you not rip these for use in your projects without purchasing the license.
Includes
More than 630 professionally designed sounds for all types of events Intelligent, communicative tones indicate "on," "off," and more Smartly named sound files in wav and aif formats Handy web app for previewing tones Full customer support, tips and tricks for use, free updates!
New Material Sounds
For version 1.2 we've included 100 new sounds inspired by Material Design. We recorded real-life sounds and translated them in to sleek and subtle UI effects. Paper sliding and crumpling, index cards shuffling and dropping, zippers, wine glasses, and even some xylophones.
Updates
Dev_Tones has been updated twice so far. We've tried our best to include a wide range of useful tones in the latest version, but we want to hear from you about what other sounds you need in your apps. Hit us up with suggestions or requests and we'll try to include even more tones in the next update.
ABOUT OUR TEAM
Designing sound on mobile devices since 2008
RCP has designed sound for mobile devices since the first generation of smartphones. Our expanding line of ringtones and notification tones is the best selling collection of simple, elegant tones available.
We design and master our sounds on mobile phone speakers to ensure the highest quality on the tiniest speakers. With Dev_Tones, we wanted to bring our clean and simple mobile sound to awesome app developers like you.
Contact
For any questions, concerns, feedback, or anything at all, please contact us at support@rcptones.com. We will be happy to help you as best we can and will try our darndest to be back in touch within 24 hours.
FAQ
License
Tab over to License to read the terms in full. The basic idea is you can use the tones freely in your apps, as long as you are not reselling our content as sound effects.
Custom Sounds
If you like what you hear but need more in terms of sound design or music, we may be interested in providing custom sound for your project. Please get in touch and we can discuss your needs further.
I want to license ringtones from RCP
The dev_tones package does not include a license for RCP's library of ringtones. If you would like to license our ringtones for any purpose, please contact us for more information.
A note about piracy
In order to make things easy for dev_tones users, no DRM is used on any of our sound files. We ask that you please do not share the tones with non-purchasers of our product. When you purchase dev_tones you are not just buying the tones, but the right to use them. Thank you for understanding.
License
dev_tones License for Use
As a paying license holder of dev_tones, you are allowed to use the tones free of charge and royalty free in your projects (such as films, videos, games, presentations, animations, stage plays, radio plays, audio books, apps) be it for commercial or non-commercial purposes.
But you are NOT allowed to:
- post or resell the tones (as sound effects or ringtones) on any website or anywhere for others to download, copy or use
- use them as a raw material to create sound effects or ringtones that you will sell, distribute or offer for downloading
- sell or license the tones (as sound effects or ringtones) to anyone else
- claim the tones as yours
- share the tones with non-purchasers of dev_tones
- distribute the tones in apps or programs that are clearly sound related in nature (such as sound machine, funny tones app, sound therapy app, ringtone maker, etc.).
- distribute the tones in apps or programs that use the tones as the program's sound resource library for other people's use (such as animation creator, video editing app, song maker software, ebook creator, etc.). If you are developing such programs, contact us for licensing options.
- use the tones to create so-called 'video sound effects'. An example would be a video titled 'dog sound effect' that simply plays a dog sound effect.
- use the tones in any form of "easy app builder" tools or websites. Xcode is acceptable; point-and-click app creator websites are not
- use the tones in a way that encourages downstream distribution. This means no templates or skins or theme kits or similar uses. (The person using the theme or template might not know where the icons came from and thus wouldn't be following the license.)
EXCEPT TO THE EXTENT REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL LICENSOR BE LIABLE TO YOU ON ANY LEGAL THEORY FOR ANY SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THIS LICENSE OR THE USE OF THE WORK, EVEN IF LICENSOR HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
If you would like to credit or link to us in your app or project, we would certainly appreciate it, but it is not required.
Usage Tips
Get Audacity (the free sound app)
Audacity is an excellent sound editing application for Mac, PC, and Linux that should be installed on every computer ever. You can use our tones as building blocks for new sounds by opening them in Audacity and adding effects or combining sounds.
Add effects
Highlight part or all of the sound in audacity and select Effect > Change Pitch. Move the slider to the left or right and preview the sound. Next try the Echo effect (start with a Delay time of .2 seconds and a Decay factor of .3 or so). Other useful effects to try are Amplify, Change Speed, Equalization, and Reverse.
Combine sounds
While you have one sound open in Audacity, you can drag another one right in under it to combine sounds. Move them around and experiment with different combinations. This can yield some very interesting results.
Ignore our naming conventions
We've tried our best to name the tones as appropriately as possible, but don't let them influence your use of them. An "off" tone could be used for an "on" tone, for instance. Mix and match the tones to create a unique soundset for your app, regardless of the names.
Don't over do it
Good UI/UX design should inform, not annoy. Be careful with the overuse of sound in your app and make sure your sounds are never too intrusive or too loud. While there's a large amount of sounds included in the dev_tones package, that's only intended so you can find the right sounds, not use all of them! See some examples of good audio UX design at the very cool Beyond the Beep tumblr.
