You'll need an iPhone to use them, or you can convert the M4R ringtone files to MP3 using the software of your choice. I took one for the team and grabbed the tones for testing, and they are indeed clear, precise, minimal and yet still piercing.
You can preview four of the 50 tones on Hugo's Cleartones page, and if you're willing to shill for him in one of your Tweets, you can download those four tones for free. Very high pitch ringing sound, sounds just like that ringing you get in your ear sometimes. They wont know where the hell its coming from. Nice to put on your phones or computers and piss people off with. These super-simple ringtones are minimalist snippets of sound which will both still the cacophony of a typical city scene, and cut through the racket letting you know that your phone, and only your phone, is ringing. Vintage phone ringing sound effect requested by Dlb. Sound and music designer Hugo Verweij wants to fix this, and he has composed Cleartones to do it. Now, annoying novelty tunes seem to have been replaced by one of two things: a tinny snippet of some currently popular tune, or a bell that mimics an old landline phone and makes me pull my own phone out of my pocket every time I hear it.
I will also show you how to set a song as a ringtone on iPhone: Here's how to change your default ringtone on the iPhone. Every iPhone comes with a pre-set ringtone that you can easily change to something that suits your preferences and personality.