Yoto: Music, Stories, Sleep

Yay!

Love the MYO, the discover section content, the recording device, and the colorful user experience!

I have 4 children, 10 years old and under and we just got a yoto player 2 months ago and it’s been a part of our daily routine ever since! From the moment they wake up.. they turn on yoto daily to hear what fun and interesting things Jake has to share with us.. to listening to the radio and all their yoto cards when they are doing school work or free time.. and finally yoto sleep radio at night and that wonderful night light built in! Our only problem now is that we can’t wait for the yoto mini to come out so all of my kids can get their own player and not fight over our 1 yoto original player haha

I am a quality assurance engineer in software which means it’s my job to test software and find bugs. This makes me naturally critical of all software and I have to say that Yoto is one of the very, very few companies I am impressed by including even the giants like Microsoft. The quality of Yoto’s software, their customer responsiveness/agile engineering, their user experience design, the lack of bugs and their overall business model is really just top of the line. I absolutely love this company and their product. And my kid loves it too! This is a company I feel good about supporting!

Yoto is amazing, my children love it. However, the app is a terrible experience. It barely works, shuts in the middle of playing in the car, and requires 2-3 more restarts than any other app on my phone. Please please fix the app, as I have a hard time recommending purchasing the Yoto with such an experience. Thanks for your hard work, the hardware is amazing and my kids love it.

Originally, gave one star because figuring out what was downloaded to a player was not there or inaccurate. Offline storage could still be improved and that is my primary use case. But the app in general at this point is very good and feature rich. So I should update my review and star count.

I used to own a Tonie Box but it's not even remotely closed to Yoto. I switched my kids from Tonie Box to Yoto about two years ago and it was the best decision I made. I love how affordable Yoto cards are, soooo many varieties. My sons look forward to bedtime story every night. With the Tonie box, you have to physically remove the character to stop the story, and the volume is barely there even at the max level. However, with Yoto, I can turn their stories on and off from my phone via the Yoto app. I can adjust the volume from my phone as well. And whenever I purchase a new Yoto card, it's instantaneously downloaded into the library in the Yoto app so we can listen to it right away while waiting for the physical card to come home. The cherry on top from purchasing Yoto product is their EXCEPTIONAL customer service! They are so prompt in responding and will do anything in their power to resolve your issue or concern. I HIGHLY and STRONGLY recommend Yoto!!!! I love the Yoto app, user friendly and allow you to pick a story, fast forward, pause, stop, turn volume up/down at your fingertips. Can't say enough good things about Yoto!

Maybe this was developed for android and ported over? I don’t know but it’s very buggy. Audio issues are rampant. When you push play you don’t get audio controls, you just get a player selector (phone or Yoto). To get audio controls you have to back out of the card screen and then tap the bottom to pull up the controls. 1/2 the time audio doesn’t even work. It seems to be playing as a system sound not music. So if your phone is muted (like everyone’s is) then it doesn’t play. And when this is happening you can turn your screen off or exit the app or else the audio stops. Also the audio control window requires a button push to minimize when a typical user experience would be to swipe up/down the audio control like a card or overlay. Yikes. It wasn’t always this bad but it’s been getting worse. *increased to 4 with developer response.

My daughter loves her Yoto Player! She listens to music and stories instead of asking to watch tv. It’s a hit!

We have come to be a YOTO family. We love our yoto players and all the things possible with them.