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The Yoto app: what it does and what's free

The free Yoto app sets up and controls Yoto players, keeps your card library and plays free podcasts, radio and sleep sounds on your phone, with or without a player.

What is the Yoto app?

The Yoto app is Yoto's free app for iPhone and Android. You need it to set up a Yoto player, and after that you use it to control the player, set limits and manage your card library. The app also plays audio on your phone, so you can listen to your cards and Yoto's free podcasts and radio without a player.

What can you do in the Yoto app?

The app's main tabs are:

  • Library shows all your cards, your Make Your Own playlists and any free or Yoto Club titles you've added. Tap play to start the audio on your player or your phone.
  • Discover has Yoto's free radio, podcasts, sleep sounds and stories. Add anything you like to your library.
  • Create is where you record your own stories and turn recordings or MP3s into playlists for Make Your Own cards.
  • Settings shows your family account and all the players in it, each with its own settings.

From the player controls on your phone you can pause, skip, change the volume, speed up a podcast, jump 15 seconds and set a sleep timer.

What's free in the Yoto app?

Yoto Daily, Yoto Radio and Yoto Sleep Radio are free, along with kids' podcasts from other makers, sleep sounds, soundscapes and timers. Our guide to Yoto Radio and podcasts shows how to play them on a player. Extra stories, sleep sounds and timers come with Yoto Club, which starts at $4.99 a month.

Can you use the Yoto app without a player?

Yes. With Wi-Fi or mobile data, you can play everything in your library on your phone, including radio, podcasts and cards that haven't downloaded to a player. If you buy cards from Yoto's store with the same email as your app, they show up in your library right away, before the physical card arrives.

Setting limits and bedtime routines

Open Settings and choose a player to change:

  • the day and night volume limits, from 0 to 16, and the headphone volume limit
  • the morning and bedtime hours that switch the player between day and night
  • the night light color for the day and the night, which works as an okay-to-wake cue
  • alarms, up to 10 for each player, with 7 sounds to choose from
  • what the player's buttons do, and on 4th Gen players, the Green Button playlists

Your phone and the player both need to be online for changes to reach the player.

Family accounts

Setting up your first player creates a family account. You can add more players and more grown-ups, and everyone in the account can play audio on any player, change its settings and use the same cards.

Lost a Yoto card?

The card stays in your library. Play it from the app, or link it to a blank Make Your Own card so your child can use it on the player again.

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Checked on 2026-11-13