How to automatically stop a Yoto at bedtime

Short answer: Yoto's built-in sleep timer stops the current audio, but nothing native makes the player refuse to play during set hours. To make bedtime actually enforce itself, you need a scheduling layer on top.

What Yoto does on its own

Yoto players include a sleep timer (a one-shot countdown that stops whatever is playing) and a Night Mode that dims the display and changes the clock face. Both are useful, but a child can start a new card the moment the timer ends, and Night Mode does not block playback.

What Audinook adds

Audinook lets you define recurring bedtime hours — for example 20:30 to 06:30 on school nights. During that window it connects to your player over Yoto's official API, detects when playback starts, and stops it. If audio is already playing when bedtime begins, it stops that too. Every blocked attempt is logged, and normal behaviour resumes automatically in the morning.

Set it up in a couple of minutes

Create a Audinook account and connect your Yoto (you sign in on Yoto's own page).
Pick the player to protect.
Set your bedtime hours for school nights and weekends, in your timezone.
Optionally choose "let the current story finish, then lock" for a gentler stop.

You can grant a one-off exception (15 or 30 minutes) without changing your schedule, and the dashboard shows whether protection is currently active.

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Last reviewed 2026-09-14. Audinook is an independent third-party application for Yoto players and is not made by, affiliated with, or endorsed by Yoto. Yoto's own features can change; we review these guides when they do. See Yoto's official help at yoto.dev and the Yoto app for current native behaviour.