YOTO Player (3rd Gen.) + Make Your Own Card – Kids Bluetooth Audio Speaker, All-in-1 Screen-Free Device Plays Stories Music Podcasts Radio White Noise Thermometer Nightlight Ok-to-Wake Alarm Clock

My child loves audiobooks, I don't like tying up my phone to Bluetooth stories to a speaker or her headphones. The Yoto gives me so much freedom and her so much autonomy, she loves pulling the cards out and putting them in to change stories. I love that it is not connected to the internet and not really a 'screen'. Listening to stories is much better for her growing brain than just TV. She often plays with her toys, or paints/draws while listening. Sometimes when friends are over they listen together. We borrow books from the library for it, and we record ourselves reading stories for the Make Your Own cards. I love that I can make little pixel pictures to put on the screen for her. The user made content on Yoto Space is so cute, and also inspiring, there are some talented folks out there! She loves the cheery Yoto Daily podcast and the night music radio. Really I can't say enough, I'm constantly recommending this to friends with kids, best money we spent on entertainment and education in years.

I know it's ment mainly for kids but if your someone with asd that loves a lot of book between the ages of 9-over (example: the best Alan Bennet reading A.A.Milnes Winnie-The-Pooh) , likes the beatles and or is having trouble finding the perfect e-ink radio then you'll love this ⏰️ 📖 🎶 I think it's a brilliant little bedroom audiobook clock with a huge range of music, books and educational podcasts to choose from. Very easy to use with bilt in Bluetooth. I like that is has a create your own cards In the apps section so if you don't find the songs or books you want to listen to then just download it from a different sight onto your blank card and your good to go. Because it has an eink screen this means you won't get eyestrain from the light at night.

I got this for Christmas for my 3 year old twins and they love it. They can change the cards and turn it on themselves and they love listening to the stories. The selection of stories is excellent. The bedtime process is so much quicker with the yoto player and in the mornings when they wake up they will turn it back on and listen quietly in bed until it’s time to get up for the day.

Got this for my 2 year old for Christmas, so he hasn’t played with it yet. But I’ve set it up and downloaded some cards and the app, and I think it’s one of the coolest toys! I have been using the app to play our cards in the car so he gets familiar with them. Hoping that will make it even better on Christmas when he starts playing with it himself. It seemed a bit intimidating at first because of how much this thing can do and how many ways there are to interact with it, but after a few minutes of playing around with it, I had it figure out and I appreciate the simplicity of the unit and the advanced features offered through the app to help you customize it for your kiddo.

We bought this for our daughter's fourth birthday present, and whilst she likes it, our six year old, nine year old and even our eleven year old love it more. We bought the Peter Rabbit collection (we have the books and they have been well read over the years), this is a great purchase for the Yoto. Different voices per story, some famous, some not. It's expensive at £30 but has been a big hit so far. We also bought traditional songs (has a lady bird on the front). These seem a hit with our kids, but they are US songs which don't exactly overlap. Baa Baa Black Sheep is different for example. It's cute though, so we won't send it back. We have yet to try the personal recordings, this sounds like a fun thing do, have Daddy read some book favourites and have his voice come through the Yoto whilst he's at work! The Yoto seems like an excellent birthday gift, as a shared gift or otherwise, I'd definitely encourage retiring your screens and getting them kids into this. You need a WiFi connection to set up stories but after that you don't need it. That's a plus in my book too.