CUT, FADE & MAKE RINGTONES
Drag & drop an audio file here
MP3, WAV, M4A, OGG, FLAC and most other audio formats
Preset applied — feel free to adjust the selection, fades, or format before exporting.
iPhone needs an M4R file. Export here as WAV/MP3, then convert with a free M4R converter, GarageBand, or our kliptools.com audio cutter (converts to M4R automatically).
KlipTools Audio Cutter opens the door to fast, precise audio editing without installing anything or creating an account. Load an MP3 or WAV file, drag the waveform handles to mark exactly the part you want, and export a clean WAV or MP3 in seconds. Because the entire process runs inside your browser using the Web Audio API, your file is decoded, edited, and re-encoded on your own device — nothing is transmitted to a server, so there is no waiting on an upload and no privacy tradeoff.
The tool was built around two jobs people constantly need done: shortening a track down to a usable ringtone, and stripping an unwanted section — a cough, a long pause, an ad read — out of the middle of a recording. Both are one workflow here: drag to select, pick Keep or Remove, adjust fades and volume if you like, then export.
Zoom in as far as 128× to place a cut on an exact beat or word boundary, then zoom back out using the minimap strip to see where you are in the whole file. Every edit — a dragged handle, a mode switch, a preset click — is remembered, so a misplaced cut is one Ctrl+Z away.
Phones have historically disagreed on ringtone formats and lengths, and it is worth knowing the rules before you export.
WAV is uncompressed: what you hear in the preview is exactly what you get, with none of the file-size savings of compression. It is the right choice for a mixdown you are about to import into audio software or hand off to someone else for further editing. MP3 shrinks the file substantially by removing audio the human ear will not easily notice, encoded here at your choice of 128, 192, or 320 kbps. 320 kbps is close to indistinguishable from the source for most ears and most content — the default a lot of listeners reach for. 192 kbps is a sensible middle ground for a ringtone or a voice clip where file size matters slightly more than absolute fidelity. 128 kbps keeps files tiny, which is fine for spoken word but starts to show its limits on dense music.
The tool accepts MP3, WAV, M4A, OGG, FLAC, and most other formats your browser's audio decoder understands — if your browser can play it, this tool can almost certainly load and cut it. The exported result is always WAV or MP3, regardless of what you uploaded.
No. Loading, waveform rendering, trimming, fading, volume changes, and both WAV and MP3 encoding happen entirely inside your browser using the Web Audio API and a JavaScript MP3 encoder. Nothing about the audio itself leaves your device at any point in this workflow.
Click the iPhone-length preset to select 30 seconds with a short fade-out, adjust where the selection starts if needed, then export as WAV or MP3. Apple's Clock app needs the file in M4R format and 40 seconds or under, so run the exported file through a free M4R converter, GarageBand's ringtone export option, or our sister audio cutter on kliptools.com, which exports M4R directly.
Click the Android preset to select 30 seconds with a fade-out already applied, export as MP3, then copy the file into your phone's Ringtones folder using a file manager, or add it through Settings → Sound → Phone Ringtone. Android accepts MP3 ringtones with no format conversion needed.
Keep mode exports only the audio between your two selection handles — everything else is discarded. Remove mode does the opposite: it deletes what is between the handles and stitches together the audio that comes before and after, seamlessly joining the two remaining pieces into one file.
Switch to Remove mode, drag the handles over the part you want gone — a cough, a skipped beat, an unwanted verse — and export. The tool joins what is left before and after the cut into a single continuous file, so you do not have to trim and stitch two separate exports yourself.
Yes. Choose a fade-in length and a fade-out length independently, from off up to 3 seconds each. Fades are applied after your selection is extracted, so a cut point never starts or ends abruptly — useful for ringtones and for smoothing the join point in Remove mode.
The volume slider scales the output from 0% (silent) to 200% (double amplitude) — useful when a clip was recorded too quietly or you want it louder. Normalize instead automatically raises (or lowers) the whole selection so its loudest peak sits at a consistent −1 dB, usually a better choice than guessing a percentage by ear. Checking Normalize disables the manual slider since the two options are not meant to combine.
WAV keeps every bit of the original audio with no compression — pick it if you are handing the file to another program or want the highest possible quality. MP3 is smaller and plays everywhere, which is what you want for a ringtone, a voice clip to text to someone, or anything you are uploading somewhere with a size limit.
320 kbps is the highest quality this tool offers and is close to indistinguishable from the original for most music. 192 kbps is a solid default that balances quality and file size well, especially for ringtones. 128 kbps produces the smallest files and is fine for spoken-word clips, but can sound noticeably compressed on dense music.
Yes. Space toggles preview playback, the arrow keys nudge the selection start (Alt+arrow nudges the end), Shift makes those nudges a full second instead of a tenth, +/- zoom in and out, 0 fits the whole track back into view, and Ctrl+Z / Ctrl+Y undo and redo your last change. Shortcuts are ignored while a text field is focused.
Yes. Every committed change — finishing a drag, applying a preset, switching Keep/Remove mode — is saved to an undo history up to 50 steps deep. Press Ctrl+Z to step back or Ctrl+Y (or Ctrl+Shift+Z) to redo.
There is no hard limit built into the tool itself, but very long files (well over an hour) take your browser longer to decode and render a waveform for, and use more memory. Typical songs, podcast clips, and voice memos load and process almost instantly.
Yes. Drag handles work with touch, pinch-to-zoom works the same as Ctrl-scroll on desktop, and the layout adapts to a phone screen. You can load a file from your phone's storage or a cloud app and export directly to your device's downloads.
M4R is technically a renamed AAC file, and encoding AAC in a browser reliably requires a server-side conversion step that this particular site does not run. Rather than fake it, this tool sticks to WAV and MP3, both of which you can convert to M4R afterward with a free converter, or use our other audio cutter on kliptools.com, which does perform that conversion server-side.
Yes, completely — no account, no watermark, no limit on how many files you cut.
Yes. Use the + button, Ctrl/Cmd + scroll wheel, or a two-finger pinch to zoom in up to 128×, then fine-tune the handle position with the arrow key nudges for sample-level accuracy. The minimap strip below the waveform always shows where your zoomed-in view sits within the full track so you don't lose your place.