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Make Your Own Cards

Create your Make Your Own Cards by recording stories or music, from your audio library, or by linking to streamed audio.

Introduction to Make Your Own cards

In a nutshell. You can turn your family’s favorite audio into Yoto Cards. The Yoto App lets you share your original creations with friends and family. It’s safer to only share Make Your Own cards with people you know and trust. Only make and share MY

Record your own stories

How to record your own audio in the Yoto app, link that to cards you can play on your player, and share audio with loved ones. Yes, you can record your own stories (or songs, or silly noises) straight into the Yoto app, make playlists from one or sev

Share audio remotely

Recording and making audio is great, but sharing is even better, especially when you can't be there in person. Grandparents, aunties, uncles, cousins, siblings, everyone, can make recordings and share them, so they can be linked to cards for the kids

How much content you can put on a Make Your Own Card?

The limit for each cards is as follows...

Make a card from your own recordings and create playlists

Use the Recording feature in the Yoto app to record stories, songs, jokes - whatever you feel like - and then create a playlist to link to a Make Your Own card. You can make simple recordings within the Yoto App. 1) Go to the Make Your Own section of

Make a card from radio stations and podcasts in the Yoto app

This section is about how to make a card from radio stations and podcasts in the Yoto app. If you want to make a card from radio stations and podcasts that are not in the Yoto app, see our guide, here. You should see a red 'record' icon on the player

Make a card from podcasts that are not in the Yoto app

1. Create a new Playlist. To set up a custom podcast, visit yotoplay.com/create and login using the same email address as you do for the app. Select Podcasts, at the top and then Add Podcast, to get started. Tap the icon to the left to choose between

Make a card from your own MP3 collection

You can upload MP3s from your phone or your computer. If you are uploading MP3s from your phone, simply click the New Playlist button in the Make Your Own section to go to the My Playlists dashboard (this will open in your web browser automatically).

Make a card from radio stations that are not in the Yoto app

To set up a custom podcast, visit yotoplay.com/create and login using the same email address as you do for the app. Select Playlist and then Add Playlist. Give your Playlist a name and tap the 'Add Stream' button. Add the URL of the radio station to

How to add custom icons to your Make Your Own cards

You can give each track in your playlist its own icon that will display in the track list on the app and on the player’s display when it is playing. Note - if you want to add the same icon to all of your tracks on a card, remember to click the Apply

Use a Make Your Own card to make a replacement for a lost card

Make Your Own cards are really useful if you happen to lose a card (maybe it gets wedged down the side of the sofa, or behind the bed!). To create a copy of a card from your Library. You should see a red 'record' icon on the player display, followed

Adding files to a playlist from your phone

When you create a new playlist, tapping the Upload Audio button will take you to where files are stored on your phone. On an Android phone. This is what it looks like to navigate and find your audio files on an Android device. On an iPhone. This is w

How to delete playlists and recordings from the app

From the Recordings list:.

Can I reuse a Make Your Own Card?

If you want to put different content on a Make Your Own card, just go through the same steps as you took to make the card in the first place, and the new content will overwrite the old content. Please note: after making any changes to the content of

Friends and Family Safe Sharing Policy

Key principles. Trust - when sharing a playlist, your email address will be shared with any recipient, so only send it to those you trust. If you’re a recipient, only review and accept a playlist from those you trust. Act fairly and responsibly - Yot

Can I make cards from Spotify/Libby playlists?

The short answer is no. These are streaming services with a subscription payment model, so you don't own the content, and you can't download audio in MP3 or AAC for use in other apps or services. There is not currently any support to play Spotify pla