Yoto: Music, Stories, Sleep 4+

We love the yoto in our house. Our daughter loves hers and uses it every day. We first purchased the yoto player in 2020 and from the start it has been a hit. Our 6 year old and 3 year old love to choose and change cards to listen to each night, it is so user friendly and has a great range of cards available. My children are able to listen to various podcasts and radio stations that we know are safe and child friendly. The player can be controlled from the app too, which is super handy. It is definitely one of the best purchases we have ever made, it has such longevity too with the range of cards available. Worth every penny!

What an amazing review, thank you! We're very glad you've been with us from the start and continuing to love it. Wishing you many more hours, days, years of fun and enjoyment with your player and the Yoto ecosystem.

We recently got the Yoto mini for my son for Christmas and I love it, it has so many features and is like a mini Walkman. It is however let down by the app. This app often crashes which is frustrating. It would be great to be able to add a playlist of the free content to a ‘Make your own’ card like you can with the Tonie player, instead you can only add one item from the free content at a time which then means you have to keep changing it if your child wants to listen to something else, and then the app crashes which is irritating. Also I recently bought some cards in the sale which I planned on giving at different times of the year, but the Yoto account adds them automatically to my app once they’ve been delivered. Although this is a great concept you should be asked if you would like this to happen as some of these were presents (luckily my son is only 5 and doesn’t see the app but an older child might). Great concept but the app just needs a few tweaks to make it as enjoyable as the Tonie I bought for my 1 year old (the Yoto seems a much better concept for my 5 year old but hasn’t been as easy to use via the app)

Hi, many thanks for the feedback. To respond to all of the points you've raised - we have systems in place to spot crashes which may happen from time to time and are few in number but we do fix up as soon as we spot them in time for the next release and we release frequently.
I'm guessing that the source of your crash may be around linking cards? Could you drop us an email to hello@yotoplay.com and ask for Ed so that we can make sure that we are fixing specifically the crash that is affecting you, and so that you can let us know your other pain points that we can consider for future updates.
Cards may be removed from your account to avoid small prying eyes (and can be re-added by scanning them in the phone or by playing them in a Player). To remove a card, tap on it in the app to show the card details, then tap the three dots menu at the top right and in the visible menu, choose "Remove from the app".

As a product developer this is one of those products I really wish I’d developed. It’s really well thought out and well executed with loads of great features.
We all benefit from it- My 2 year old loves having autonomy, listening to her stories and using the night light. We use the white noise with our 3month old. My husband and I feel like we are better parents with less screen time and calmer car journeys. I can also see there’s lots of room for growth with podcasts, radio stations and educational content for older children.

There are just two things I would love to change slightly -
1. Please please make it compatible with Apple Car Play. Although it works with Bluetooth, Car Play would be so much easier in the car. Other audio book apps have this and it’s a game changer.
2. The white/pink/brown noise sometimes restarts or stops altogether for no obvious reason. While it sounds very trivial, our baby immediately wakes up when this happens.

Regardless of this, we are converts. Thank you YOTO.

Thank you so much for your review and feedback. It's always good to hear how Yoto is helping parents, entertaining and educating children, and aiding sleep.
We do have Car Play on our roadmap and we very much want to add this to a future app release. The sleep sounds content is looping content with a short gap between each loop and we're working to decrease and mitigate this delay in these sounds.