The figurines are ok, the material is soft to the touch and are relatively easy to fit in the music slot. Overall construction looks solid although I haven't put it much to the test because as I mentioned my son is really sad that the buttons are not usable.

One of my favourite features, unique to the Yoto Player, is the additional free content. The daily podcast and Yoto Radio can be accessed by one or two presses of the right hand button when the card slot is empty. (You can change how this is access via the app). Similar to the tonies Toniebox, the Yoto Player is a box-shaped speaker system which plays audio content from pre-loaded cards. So what did we think, and which one would we recommend? Read on! Jooki is the favorite educational toy for 3yo+, fostering their imagination with music and storytelling.Portable Children’s audio players are rising in popularity, giving kids a screen-free option for entertainment which is popular with parents who are concerned about screentime. But which are the best portable children’s audio players? It is quite large and bulky, and we sometimes had trouble connecting it to our wifi. You have to provide the content; you can’t buy stories etc. Read more about the Jooki audio player in our review here. The Jooki children’s audio player is not currently available to buy in the UK. The TIMIO We’ve had it for a few days now, and my daughter LOVES it. She carries it everywhere with her. The sound quality is good, it seems durable and able to withstand the daily use of a three and five-year old. Although the cards might not be as cute and collectible as the tonies characters, they are around half the price per story as well as being easier to store. The Yoto Player is extremely easy for children to use as there are just three buttons; an on/off button on the side, and two on the top which you use to adjust the volume and move between chapters.

I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend them, and have done to my own family and friends. If you want to buy the Yoto Player, you can do so via their online shop here. GET 5% OFF A YOTO PLAYER OR YOTO MINI USING THE CODE AFF-WHINGE5 HERE. then...you need to connect with your phone to the same wifi network where the jooki box is and only then you are allowed to interact with the product. Press once for the daily podcast. It’s is only a few minutes long but it’s a nice touch and the kids enjoy listening to the riddles and child-friendly content which changes every day. Press the button twice for Yoto Radio, their in-house music station playing all sorts of music from the 70s and 80s right up to date. You can be sure that it is all fun, safe, advert-free curated content. I’ve been listening to it myself actually, writing this and singing along to everything from Huey Lewis and the News and Smash Mouth to Lewis Capaldi. Is the Yoto Club any good? The TIMIO is worthy of a mention. Aimed at slightly younger children (aged 3-8 years) the TIMIO comes with pre-loaded ‘discs’ with a selection of songs, stories and words for vocabulary building which can be played in English, Spanish, French, German, Chinese and Dutch.First up, the tonies Toniebox. The tonies is probably the best known of the children’s audio players due to a very successful marketing campaign. It’s relatively large and soft and squishy, and comes with cute characters which you can place on top to hear stories and music. Suggestion to jooki. Please really improve on the connection method of this product. I'm not exactly illiterate (I'm an IT engineer) and I didn't find it user friendly at all. The software is constantly being updated and improved meaning it should get better over time, for free – and last a lot longer, growing with your child.

Jooki is the only high-quality music and stories player that gives kids safe, screen-free access to streaming audio content. The Jooki is a less commonly known WiFi based music player. Used with Spotify or Deezer, you can connect your playlists to the characters which then automatically play it when they’re placed on the top of a player. It can also be used as a bluetooth speaker.The son took to it immediately(once the parents had easily set up some music associations to the tokens via the phone app), loving that he can switch out music on command in such an easy and fun way(for a 2-3 year old it is extremely accessible). The parents loved it...so much the father commandeered one of the tokens just for his favorite podcast! Their nanny was head over heels about it, so much so that she was telling all her other clients about it. Everyone really liked that it came with five tokens and not just two or three(the tokens are such cute figurines!). Also a big hit was that it was so flexible about music sources. That you could load up a micro-sd card so that you didn't need wifi, but also it could play online playlists and podcasts from Spotify and not some proprietary service. This a question that has been asked in my parenting group, so I thought I’d answer it here as well as I can! Both ‘boxes’ are easy to use and intuitive for smaller kids. The toniebox is softer, so good for toddlers. It also looks nice and comes in a range of colours to suit any child’s bedroom. However the Yoto Player does everything that the toniebox does, and more. While the Jooki is awesome and is a great concept, we are disappointed by the control buttons on it. They are difficult to use/ to turn when choosing/skipping a song. Such an expensive item should be easy-to-use for the child who uses it, but it is even difficult for an adult to use. The button needs to be turned A LOT to skip a song and the tokens on the Jooki can get in the way. A different system should be used to skip the songs. My wife and I bought this for a couple we know who just had their second child. Their first son(who is almost 3) had been feeling left out in all of the activities of his new brother, so we thought this might be a good way to take some pressure off of the parents and give the older son some autonomy and distraction.