FAQ

A card only enters your Yoto library once it has been played on a player at least once. A new card still in the drawer is invisible until its first tap. Tap it on a player, then revisit and the app will pick it up on the next sync.

It's a one way push. When you sync a bundle, the app creates or updates a native Yoto Group with the bundle's name, cards, and order, and it appears in the official Yoto app for the whole family. Edits you make here (renaming, reordering, adding cards) reach the Yoto app the next time you press the sync button. Edits made directly to the group inside the Yoto app get overwritten on the next push.

Yoto allows a maximum of 20 native Groups per family. Pushing beyond that fails with Yoto's group limit error. Bundles themselves are unlimited; the cap only applies to ones you sync.

MYO is a Make Your Own card: content someone created rather than an official Yoto release. The app detects this automatically from Yoto's data, tags the card, and lets you filter the library to MYO only.

It's a label, nothing more. The card gets a quiet amber treatment everywhere it appears so you remember the physical card is lost, but it still counts, still syncs, and still behaves exactly the same. Found it? Open the card and press the button to unmark it. And if you want to check the whole collection at once instead of card by card, use Take inventory on the Library page.

Take inventory. On the Library page, press Take inventory and the grid turns into a checklist. Tick every card you can physically put your hands on. Search and filters still work, so you can go one category or one bundle at a time. When you finish, everything you didn't tick gets marked missing in one go, and any previously missing card you did tick gets marked found. Prefer paper? Print catalog on the same page gives you the whole collection as a checklist you can carry around the house.

Two ways. Each bundle has a Print checklist button that prints just that bundle, handy taped inside a binder or next to a ring. And the Library page has a Print catalog button that prints everything you own, grouped by bundle with each one's physical location, plus the not-yet-sorted pile. Every line has a tick box, so it works as an inventory sheet, or hand it to the kids and let them mark what they want to hear next, no phone required.

A rule files cards into a bundle for you: whenever new cards arrive in your library, every enabled rule runs, so a brand new card can land already sorted. You set them up on the Organize page. Matching is simple text search for now (rules are in beta): pick a field (Category, Author, Series, or Title) and whether it equals or contains your words, like "if Category equals music, add to the Music bundle" or "if Author contains julia donaldson, add to the Gruffalo shelf". Capitalization doesn't matter. There's also a button to run all your rules across the whole library right now, not just on new arrivals.

A group is a Yoto app feature that works like a playlist: the same card can sit in "Bedtime" and "Car rides" at once, and it only exists digitally. A bundle is this app's model of your physical cards: the actual pile on the blue ring or in the binder. Because a physical card can only be in one place, a card lives in exactly one bundle. The two connect when you sync: syncing a bundle publishes it as a group, so your organizing shows up in the Yoto app for the whole family. Think of it as bundles are the shelf, groups are how the shelf appears on screen.

They stay yours, untouched. Groups made in the Yoto app show up on the Bundles page as read-only — we never edit or delete a group we didn't create. If you want to manage one from here, tap Import as bundle: you give the bundle a fresh name and it copies the group's cards, except any card that's already in another bundle — those stay where they are, and the import preview lists exactly which ones and where. The original group is left exactly as it was. Cards that are only in Yoto-app groups count as unsorted here until they're in a bundle, because bundles are where this app tracks your organizing.

No. A card is a physical object, so it lives in exactly one bundle. Assigning an already bundled card moves it, like taking it off one ring and clipping it onto another, and the app tells you when that happens.

Automatically every time you visit (at most once every 10 minutes), plus a daily background sync. New arrivals show up in a banner, and if you've set up rules they get filed into the right bundle before you even open the app.

You sign in on Yoto's own site, so we never see your password. Through the official Yoto API the app reads your card library and manages only the groups you ask it to sync. You can revoke access anytime from your Yoto account, and while signed in you can erase everything this app stores about you with the Delete my data button at the bottom of this page. Not affiliated with Yoto.

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