Ringtones & Wallpapers - Mob24

Review by eFreeware

Most phones ship with a handful of alert tones and a wallpaper or two, and after a few weeks those defaults start to feel like everyone else's. Replacing them usually means hunting through separate apps for sounds and backgrounds, or paying for a pack that turns out to be a dozen variations of the same chime. Ringtones & Wallpapers - Mob24 is an attempt to put all of that in one place: audio for calls and notifications, still and moving backgrounds, and a tool for making your own sounds.

It comes from Mobiles24, a developer whose catalog is built around contributions from artists, creators and the wider community rather than a single in-house design team. The app is free and supported by ads, with no in-app purchases, and it has been on Google Play since December 2012. More than a million installs and a 4.5 average across 11,769 ratings suggest it has found a steady audience over that time, though the rating tells you how existing users feel rather than what you will make of the collection yourself.

Sounds for calls, messages and alarms

The audio side is the most developed part of the package. You can browse a catalog of ringtones, listen to a clip before committing to it, and download the ones you like. The range is deliberately broad: funny ringtones, instrumental music, romantic tracks, phone stock tones and more, which is the kind of spread you want from a library that has to serve very different tastes.

Beyond the call ringtone itself, the app covers notification sounds you can set as a message alert and a collection of alarm sounds. If the built-in beep on your phone has become genuinely irritating, swapping it for something you chose is a small change with a surprisingly large effect on how you feel about your morning. There is also the option to assign a specific ringtone to an individual contact, so a call from a family member sounds different from a call from work.

That per-contact assignment is the feature I would point to first if you share a phone line or simply want to know who is calling without looking at the screen. It is a common enough capability on Android, but having it sit alongside the download catalog saves a trip into the system settings.

Wallpapers that move

The visual side covers more ground than the name suggests. Alongside ordinary wallpapers you get video wallpapers and live wallpapers, which animate rather than sitting still. The developer describes these as looping without a break, and the recent update added support for fluid wallpapers, so this is an area that is still being worked on rather than left alone.

The still wallpapers are pitched at high resolutions, with UHD and HDR backgrounds intended to fill the screen properly on larger displays. Anyone who has set a low-resolution image as a background and watched it turn soft and stretched knows why that matters. The catalog spans abstract designs, city landscapes, textures, and artist-created or curated pieces, so the look can be as plain or as busy as you want.

Most wallpapers can be applied to the home screen, the lock screen, or both, which is a small detail that makes a difference if you like a clean lock screen and something livelier behind your icons. Live wallpapers, being animated, are the more demanding option, and I would treat them as the choice for a phone you want to feel less static rather than the default setting.

Making your own ringtone

The ringtone maker is the part that sets this app apart from a straightforward download store. It also makes alarm sounds and notification alerts, not just ringtones. For anyone who has wanted a specific section of a track as their alert tone, that is a more interesting proposition than browsing yet another list.

I would expect this to appeal most to people who already know what sound they want and just need a way to produce it. The catalog is there for everyone else. Having both in one app means you are not choosing between downloading and creating, which is a sensible arrangement for a personalization tool.

The app also lets you publish your own creations to the Mobiles24 community, and the developer says it is always looking for contributors. That is a genuine two-way setup rather than a one-way store, and it explains how a catalog this varied stays stocked.

What you need before you start

There is not much to prepare. Ringtones & Wallpapers - Mob24 installs on Android phones and tablets. The developer says favorites carry over to other devices through your Android phone.

The app is free with advertising, and there are no in-app purchases. That is the whole of the cost picture: you are trading screen space and attention for access. The content rating is Teen, which is worth noting if you are setting the app up on a device used by younger family members.

The app was last updated in May 2026, and the recent changes mention fluid wallpaper support along with bug fixes and speed improvements. For a title that first appeared in 2012, that is a reasonable sign that the catalog and the app around it are still being tended to.

Who gets the most from it

This is an app for people who treat their phone's appearance and sound as something worth adjusting. If you change your wallpaper with the seasons, keep a folder of alert tones, or have ever wished your alarm sounded like something other than a factory preset, the combination of a large catalog and a maker tool covers both impulses.

It also suits anyone who resists paying for personalization. The free, ad-supported model means the barrier to trying it is low. What you see is what you get.

The community angle gives it a second audience: people who make sounds or artwork and want somewhere to publish them. The developer's invitation to artists is explicit, and the catalog's breadth depends on that participation. If you are only a consumer of other people's work, that side of the app simply passes you by.

A free personalization hub worth trying

Ringtones & Wallpapers - Mob24 does one job broadly rather than several jobs narrowly. Ringtones, notification and alarm sounds, still wallpapers, video and live wallpapers, per-contact assignment, cross-device syncing of favorites and a ringtone maker all sit in the same app, and the price of entry is watching ads. For a personalization tool, that is a fair trade, and the install count and rating suggest plenty of people have decided the same.

The reservations are the ones that come with the format. Ads are part of the deal, the catalog is community-driven so its character shifts over time, and live wallpapers are a heavier choice than a static image. None of that undermines what the app is for.

If you want to change how your phone looks and sounds without spending anything, this is built for exactly that. If you have a specific sound in mind, the maker gives you a way to produce it. Install it, spend a few minutes in the catalog, and you will know quickly whether its taste matches yours.

What's new in version 3.1.0

Added support for fluid wallpapers Bug fixes and speed improvements