The classic movie & television theme music your phone deserves.
ToneVault is a hand-curated archive of cinematic and broadcast theme ringtones — orchestral fanfares from the studio era, brassy detective stings from the golden age of TV, surf-rock sitcom openers, sci-fi cues, cartoon bumpers, and Saturday-morning fanfares. Free downloads in M4R for iPhone and MP3 for Android.
TV Themes
Iconic television theme songs from sitcoms, dramas, and prime-time classics. From the warm openings of family comedies to the bra…
26 ringtonesMovie Themes
Cinematic main titles, end-credit pieces, and signature motifs from classic and cult films. Each ringtone here is a self-containe…
54 ringtonesSci-Fi & Fantasy
Synth-laden voyages, alien fanfares, and otherworldly motifs. The science fiction and fantasy section collects the strangest, bri…
69 ringtonesAction & Adventure
Pulse-quickening stings, chase music, and heroic main-title brass. Action and adventure ringtones are built for the moment your p…
27 ringtonesDrama & Suspense
Slow-building strings, lonely pianos, and the unmistakable hush before a plot twist. The drama collection focuses on cinematic re…
166 ringtonesComedy & Sitcom
Bright brass, plucky strings, and bouncy melodies pulled from the funniest themes ever broadcast. Comedy ringtones are designed t…
82 ringtonesCartoon & Animation
Saturday-morning fanfares, looney brass, and the giddy themes of animated adventures. From hand-drawn classics to stop-motion odd…
44 ringtonesWestern & Classic
Wide-open prairies, frontier whistles, and the orchestral grandeur of the classic Hollywood era. This collection gathers the dust…
297 ringtonesClassic Films
Feature-film main titles, end-credit pieces, and signature motifs from across the studio era and the New Hollywood. From Max Steiner's swee…
39 theme profiles MediumTV Dramas
Hour-long prime-time drama themes — police procedurals, legal thrillers, medical shows, and serialized soap operas. The TV-drama theme has…
58 theme profiles MediumSitcoms
Half-hour comedy theme songs — bouncy, hummable, often built around a single repeated melodic hook. From the brassy big-band openings of 19…
78 theme profiles MediumSci-Fi TV Themes
Space adventures, paranormal investigations, and time-travel serials. Sci-fi TV theme music has always pushed harder against orchestral con…
10 theme profiles MediumCartoons & Animation
Saturday-morning theatricals, prime-time animated series, and animated feature-film main titles. Animation scoring is its own discipline —…
40 theme profilesWhat is ToneVault?
ToneVault is an open archive of classic movie and television theme ringtones — short, recognizable musical cues that have defined decades of cinema and broadcast. Every clip in the library is sourced from public-domain recordings or works released under Creative Commons licenses, then catalogued, tagged, and trimmed for use as a phone ringtone, alarm tone, or notification sound. We publish in two formats: M4R for iPhone (the Apple-blessed ringtone container, which works across every iOS device) and MP3 for Android (the universal format that drops straight into the system Ringtones folder on Samsung Galaxy, Google Pixel, OnePlus, and every other major Android skin).
The collection spans the entire arc of recorded screen music: stately orchestral overtures from the studio era, brassy detective stings from the golden age of television, the synth-and-strings palettes of late-night sci-fi serials, the bouncing horn-and-piano openings of the great American sitcom, and the saturated, hand-drawn fanfares of Saturday-morning animation. Whether you're hunting for a wide-open western motif, a noir-era piano theme, or a fanfare from a long-forgotten cartoon, the archive is built to make it findable in two clicks.
The catalog is browsable by genre, by decade from the 1930s through the 2000s, by stylistic era (studio era, golden age of television, cable era, streaming prelude), by medium (film, sitcom, drama, sci-fi TV, cartoon), and by composer. Every internal link leads to a fully built page; there are no placeholders, no "coming soon" stubs, no dead-end clicks. Pick a starting point, preview every track in the page, then download directly to your device.