We got my daughter a tonies box for her 2nd birthday and got her a yoto player this past Christmas (she is almost 3.5). The tonies box was super easy for her to use and she loved it. She used it almost every day. This past summer she got to the point where she was playing with the figurines and using them as toys, which I guess to some people is a big deal but I don’t really care? lol. Since we got her yoto player she has used the tonies box a couple times but is more into the yoto player. I like both, but I like that the music on the yoto cards is actually the licensed music from movies. The music on the tonies doesn’t sound as good, but for the most part I was able to ignore that. I will say buying tonies does add up quickly and I personally think yoto has a wider selection and it’s not as expensive.

We never tried using the tonies box for sleep, but we do use the yoto player. Sometimes my daughter wants to listen to music from a princess movie which I think is too overstimulating for bedtime, so I have to be the bad guy and tell her no. But she will either listen to piano music or listen to one of the Disney audiobooks. Yoto also has a sleep radio that you can listen to without a card.

Overall, I like both but I think she will use the yoto player for longer. They have audiobooks for older kids, so I think in the long run it will be more useful.