Most cell phone manufacturers and websites offer ringtones to mobile users free or at low cost. Before downloading free melodious ringtones, check your phones ringtone compatibility. Generally free ringtones offered by Sony Ericsson, Nokia, Motorola etc may be found on their websites under names like melodies, ringer tones, tunes, ringing tones or rings. Owing to the universal development of free ringtones, top commercial musical ringtones are becoming unpopular and rare.

Motorola has come up with five different free ringtone formats over the last four years. All these ringtones are based on the keypress sequence, which means that the mobile owner need not understand his phones ringtone composer. Just following instructions as per Motorolas ringtones keypress sequence. Sanyo also offers free polyphonic ringtones in (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) MIDI format for Sanyo mobile users. Sprint PCS has also entered the marketplace. In case of the recent Alcatel mobile phones manufactured after 2001, the user can download free Alcatel ringtones either with the help of WAP (Wireless Internet) or by using built-in ringtone composer.

On the other hand, the global leader in cell phone manufacturers Nokia is offering more than 1200 free and user-friendly Nokia ringtones for their customers in keypress format. Every day Nokia updates free celebrity ringtones for Nokia mobile phones. Nokia now offers free polypohnic ringtones along with free color picture logos to its customers for its unique model no.321. In the same way different companies offer user-friendly and melodious free ringtones in different formats to their customers.

The free ringtones offered by different mobile manufacturers and websites include the series of Unclassified Ringtones, Techno Ringtones (Wildly popular), Tropical Ringtones, Morbid Ringtones, Speedy Melodies, Far West Melodies, Buzz-Tones, Jazzy Spring Ringtones and Mystery Ringtones.