Yoto User Reviews

Yoto: Music, Stories, Sleep

Yoto Limited

Education

Entertainment

Reviews Summary

Positive highlights

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This app hasExcellent for kids, engaging content

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This app hasPromotes creativity, imagination, and spontaneity

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This app hasHigh-quality audio, great for bedtime and on-the-go

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This app hasWide variety of stories, podcasts, and educational content

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This app hasParental controls and customization options in the app

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This app hasConstantly updated with new features and content

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This app hasEncourages independent play and learning

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This app hasExceptional customer service and responsiveness

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This app hasAffordable subscription model for building a library

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This app hasSuitable for a wide range of ages, grows with the child

Negative highlights

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This app hasRequires Wi-Fi connection to function fully

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This app hasOffline play and content management could be improved

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This app hasApp navigation and user experience could be more intuitive

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This app hasLimited control over content and volume for parents

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This app hasLack of a loop feature to repeat content

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This app hasOccasional connectivity and syncing issues between app and device

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This app hasCost of individual cards can add up quickly

Top reviews

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1000% worth it

Yoto has been a game changer for our family. Our 4 year old loves it and listens for usually an hr a day. Try the ladybird series! You’ll be amazed how much you kid learns.

To the Yoto team - thank you! Love the amazing features (especially radio, sleep sounds, the night/morning light, and the timers).

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Pippingoff

2 years ago

Love our Yoto!

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?

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seaturtlenj

2 years ago

Response from developer

Edit: Hi - yes, we have a looping feature in beta at the moment. If you'd like to try it out drop an email to hello@yotoplay.com and we can move your player to the beta channel to reveal this feature in the app in player settings. Hi, many thanks for your feedback. Watch this space, we're looking into adding this very feature!

Got my kids to sleep in their own bed after years of trying everything else!

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!

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Ariybob123

2 years ago

Response from developer

Many thanks for your review and so happy to hear of your success with the Yoto platform. Keep an ear out for an alarm feature ;-) it might be coming to a player near you soon.

Excellent Now, Getting Even Better

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!

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Realsserious

2 years ago

Response from developer

Thank you so much for your kind words and positive comments and so glad to hear you’ve been on the journey with us since the beginning. We’re a small team but we love hearing from our customers and we’re dedicated to continuously delivering improvements and new features. Thanks again and wishing you all many more hours of enjoyment from your players!

Great sleepy time toy!

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!

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Chloeprent

2 years ago

Response from developer

Many thanks for your lovely review! Happy to hear you’re all enjoying it so far and wishing you all many hours of fun, learning and discovery.

Too opaque for offline play

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.

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Bowshanks

2 years ago

Response from developer

Edit: we've just released this feature to the app store. To see the status of your player downloads and the exact cards that are and are not downloaded: Players tab -> choose a player -> player settings -> tap the downloads row to reveal a new screen. Let us know what you think. Hi - many thanks for your feedback and sorry to hear the app isn’t currently giving you better visibility of what is and isn’t downloaded to your player. We recognise this and therefore in the next release, 2.41 currently undergoing internal testing, there’ll be a new section showing player downloads. In the meantime, if you contact us at hello@yotoplay.com with your registration code (from player settings in the app) we can check your downloads and give any stubborn cards a push.

Pairing Error

Ed at yoto support was a huge help and fixed our login issue!

Unfortunately I’ve exhausted all options for troubleshooting; deleting app, trying to create a new account, clearing cache, and I still cannot pair our new yoto and my phone. The issue is with the app, not the player. It works perfectly fine when we set it up on my husband’s phone. I emailed support explaining the issue and they responded with requesting I provide the registration code for the player, which I can’t get to since I can’t pair the app and player. I responded and have not received a response back. I’m incredibly irritated, I just want to be able to fully use the player and app.

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amber.g28

2 years ago

wake up function

we love our yoto, and the app enhancements are always good, but please please please add a wake up/alarm function.

alex eben meyer

2 years ago

Great device - a few tweaks would be nice

We love the Yoto! Has been great for our little one. However, a few of the podcasts that are listed have some commercials that are not suitable for children. I would pay extra if we could avoid commercials.

Also - would be great if you could see how much time was remaining on the cards or podcasts that your kiddo is listening to from your phone.

Overall- great app and love the Yoto player!

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Haley128647

2 years ago

Response from developer

Thanks so much for your review. Podcast tracks should show their length next to each edition in the card details screen. From the maxi player, you can tap the seek bar to see where the podcast or story currently is and that might help to understand the remaining time. We've been actively working with our 3rd party podcast providers to ensure any ads they run are not inappropriate (we don't have direct control of 3rd party providers). Would you be able to drop an email to hello@yotoplay.com to discuss further?