Jooki is the only high-quality music and stories player that gives kids safe, screen-free access to streaming audio content. Recently there has been an explosion of intuitive, screen-free audio players for children on the market. We have reviewed several of these; the tonies Toniebox, the Jooki and the Timio. The latest is the Yoto Player.

Jooki will play Spotify playlists when connected to Wi-Fi and MP3 playlists anytime, anywhere. Jooki unleashes invaluable family moments creating fun memories for your kids, while they serendipitously learn to talk, dance, sing and listen! 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.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. to get to the 3 star at this point everything must be fully ok...it's not. the orange buttons only work if you rotate them fully. for this you need a certain strength and dexterity. so my 3 year old son is completely frustrated and sad because he keeps rotating the knob but never enough for it to work. It feels really well built and rugged and apparently it's splash proof! Which, given toddler usage, seems like a great feature. Jooki is the favorite educational toy for 3yo+, fostering their imagination with music and storytelling. 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.

Jooki made the TIME Best Inventions of 2022 list (Toys & Play) and was ranked 3 in the 2022 USA TODAY Readers Choice Award (Best Gifts for Families). Jooki won the CES 2022 Innovation Award (best personal audio), the 2022 Edtech Cool Tool Finalist Award (arts, music and creative solutions) and the 2022 Creative Child Magazine Awards as Product of the Year. 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.verifyErrors }}{{ message }}{{ /verifyErrors }}{{

The Yoto Player is easy to set up; switch it on, pop in the credit-card sized ‘welcome card’ and listen to the instructions which will lead you through the different features (in a pleasingly British accent – I’m not a huge fan of toys which come with American voices so I liked this!). There’s an app which gives you step by step instructions for pairing it to your home wifi and we managed this first time. Features of the Yoto Player 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. the strange part is where you will have to register and give some of your data to them. Without this you can't use the product at all. It gets worse. Then you need to give location permissions and only then you can configure the wifi on the product.. Yes the wifi. 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 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. The reason it get a 2 star instead of a one star is the fact that once you get it working properly, and you're able to send the MP3 files (you can also use spotify, which I didn't want) it's really easy to use and the sound quality is not so bad. 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. The Yoto Player can be used a nightlight by placing it on its ‘face’. You can alter the colour of the nightlight in the Yoto App.