Yoto: Music, Stories, Sleep Hack 2.65 + Redeem Codes

It is a true rarity to find a company that is so dedicated to serving their customers. They tirelessly add to and adapt their app to best suite their customers. New and fresh content shows up all the time. They play an active roll within the Facebook group so that they can address issues quickly and efficiently. Their customer service is surpassed by no other company I’ve ever dealt with. To give you an idea of the type of people who work at Yoto: when the price of everything is skyrocketing, Yoto just sent out a notice that they will be REDUCING the price of most of their cards in order to ensure that Yoto can continue to be accessible to kids and families. There are also plenty of free features (incredible and labor intensive for them) that they’ve chosen not to charge for. They’re amazing. Give it a shot and you won’t be disappointed. Trust me :)

I’d be remiss if I didn’t write a review praising this company for their excellent products, thorough customer support, and rapid development. We’ve been Yoto believers for years because this is the device that transitioned our kids from daily screen-time to daily audiobook-time. Though the app hasn’t always been great, we’ve received several surveys allowing us to provide input on the feature set. And I can honestly say that this has been one of the greatest app evolutions I’ve ever seen. I don’t know just how many employees the company now has, but Yoto’s organization is firing on all cylinders. Huge props to all of you - your direction and attention to detail is astonishing. Thank you for allowing your customers to be a part of your design process, and thanks for creating such an approachable platform!

My kids (3&5) love their Yoto Player! I was researching music players that is tough for young ones to handle and not as complicated as a MP3 player. Yoto was the best choice! I love that you can create your own cards, most of our cards we created ourselves which include stories and music. I’m always cautious what my kids listen to so I’m so glad they have this option to create your own cards. I’ve reached out to customer service multiple times with questions and sometimes minor bugs, each time they promptly reply to me and fixed all my issues and answered all my questions. I can see they have a dedicated team who are really passionate in what they do.

The idea is great and we use our Yoto box frequently. However the system needs improvement. I want the box to be offline when the kids use it. It should be more obvious if the internet is on/off and it should not turn on automatically. The only audio we play on Yoto are the cards we bought or recorded ourselves to avoid advertisements and other unintended materials. In contrast to CDs or cassettes, which used to be a universal format for audio entertainment, the content in Yoto and similar apps is extremely limited based on licensing contracts. Or parents have to invest much more time and money than expected to buy and transfer other audio formats onto Yoto cards. When I make my own playlist and add titles to it later, it will only show the new titles in the app, but not on the linked card. Please make the app more user friendly!

So I love the concept of Yoto, I was looking for a device that would allow my 3 and 5 year olds to play their own audio books, and it is perfectly fine with that and they have a lot of fun with it. I am pretty disappointed with the fact that the device needs to be connected to Wi-Fi in order to work. I really wanted something that they could use if we were traveling or camping, but we’re not always going to have Wi-Fi or cell service on those trips. I like that I have the option to Sync it to my phone, so if a story card is physically lost then we can still play it since it is saved on my phone, but I really wish there was an option to just use the cards and player off line. Not sure if this is an update that Yoto can do, but it would be much appreciated!

We love our Yoto! Kids can choose what they want to listen to and put it on, and all the speakers have calm and somewhat monotonous voices that can blend into the background as a child falls asleep. No dramatic music or noises company the storytelling, it’s just a soothing voice that you want to keep listening to. Our two year olds love it! They run to the room to listen to stories at bedtime. So far we have listened to the Disney stories but I imagine all the other content is fantastic too. I highly recommend!

Our Yoto has been a game changer for our 4 year old. He listens to it non stop. The App has so many wonderful features. Love that you can play the Yoto as a speaker through Bluetooth and that parents can control volume and what card is played through the App (we lost a couple of cards but can still ply the material through the App which is huge!). The only thing that would make this “perfect” is if the App had a Loop feature that allowed the cards to restart once they played through.
**FOLLOW UP**
Have there been any updates regarding a loop feature that restarts the card once it’s played through?

Setup Yoto mini and app just said 1 pending download even before I really inserted a card (had a defective player before). I then inserted and removed all my cards. App still just said one pending. I figured my account was borked. I deleted my account and created a new account. I setup the player again. App said all audio up to date (should say no audio yet, am I right?). Inserted all cards per instructions and nothing status didn’t change. They say leave it over night. Can’t imagine it downloaded 8 cards in the matter of seconds plus when I insert a card it displays a cloud which would indicate playing from the cloud not local storage.
Basically, the app doesn’t provide any information about offline storage.

It is one of the most useful apps I have. It is a wonderful extension of an already wonderful product. It helps to access content my kid does not have direct control over, set alarms, set volume limits for both speaker and headphones, remotely play a card or sleep sounds without entering the room, daytime and nighttime settings, display options, set button function, making cards, sampling cards, and more. I use this app daily.

Nothing worked! My kids would never sleep in there own bed. I tried everything in the book, I even tried getting bedtimes stories on Alexa… Thought I’d give this a try and it worked like a charm. The stories are short enough that they keep my boys engaged just enough to fall asleep! I’d love if there was an alarm clock feature to help them get up for school on there own (my 5 year old ask for that feature) 🤞🏻 they update that soon!