Click for simple, affordable ways to make the most of what's left of summer. The Yoto Player 4th Gen just dropped. Here’s what’s different The Yoto Player 4th Gen comes with the biggest hardware upgrade in the company's history, three years in the making.
While there are other storytelling players on the market, Yoto has long been a top pick with parents. It’s durable, multi-functional and — if judged by dollars-to-minutes spent — worth its weight in gold. For the uninitiated, the design is simple.
Kids insert their own content cards to listen to a huge and ever-growing library of bestselling audiobooks, music and singalongs, educational activities and podcasts. The library runs from little-kid faves like Peppa Pig, Mo Willems and The Wiggles to classics that keep older kids equally engaged like _Harry Potter and A Series of Unfortunate Events_. The cards take up minimal space, and because the content is also available on the parent app, losing a card never means losing the story.
It also functions as a night light, room thermometer, white noise machine, clock and sleep trainer, and it comes with a record-your-own card for the books they request on loop. My own now-teenager had the original model for years before passing it down to a younger cousin, with a sweet message recorded onto one of those make-your-own cards. Honestly, any toy that outlasts a single childhood — especially a tech-based one — is so refreshing.
Now there’s a new Yoto in town. The Yoto Player 4th Gen arrives in October, and it comes with the biggest hardware upgrade in the company’s history, three years in the making. It’s available to pre-order now at $149.99, with shipping expected to start October 15.
The most obvious update is a new Green Button. Parents can load up to 20 favorite stories, songs, podcasts or soundscapes into the Yoto app ahead of time, and kids twist and press to play them instantly, no card required. For independent players who want to start their own listening without hunting down a card first, it’s a great upgrade. (And let’s be real.
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