We were gifted the TIMIO in exchange for a review.
The TIMIO audio player puts kids in control of the content they would like to enjoy.
It’s a fab little toy that really reminds me of a portable record player toy I had as a child.
The TIMIO comes with discs featuring a variety of themes, from nursery rhymes and colours to body parts and vehicles.
Each disc is interactive, allowing your child to touch the pictures and get an audio response describing the picture.
The TIMIO also asks questions of your child to help them learn and have fun at the same time.
What do you get in the box
In the box is your TIMIO device, which needs three AA batteries.
There’s also 20 discs featuring different content for the TIMIO. Plus there’s a bag to keep all of the discs together.
The disc themes include:
- Nursery rhymes
- Bedtime – including white noise and lullabies
- Musical instruments
- Fairy tales
- Body parts
- Vocabulary
- Colours
- Animals
- Vehicles
- Christmas songs
- Telling the time
The TIMIO has an on/off switch on the back and three buttons on the top.
One button changes the language between English, Spanish, French, German, Chinese and Dutch, and the others deal with the volume. There is a headphone slot so that your child can play without disturbing anyone.
How does it work
After inserting the batteries you simply switch on the TIMIO and its ready to go.
Place a disc on top of the TIMIO and that disc will work immediately. You child simply needs to touch the pictures on the disc.
The discs slot extremely easily onto the square at the top of the TIMIO, with no click required. It’s great because it means little fingers can easily switch between the discs without needing any help.
The device does not need an internet connection so you can take it with you wherever you go, making it a perfect travel toy (especially thanks to the headphone connection).
It’s fab that you can easily switch between languages too, so that your child can learn words in other languages. You just need to press the globe button and hold for three seconds so that it switches between the languages.
What did we think?
The kids have been so excited about playing with the TIMIO. The lovely handle makes it easy for little ones to carry it around with them. It’s very lightweight too.
It comes with a very wide range of content on the 20 discs and has a lot of educational value that’s brilliant for children learning words, colours, telling the time and other skills.
It’s so easy for little hands to use, and provides a brilliant, fun screen-free alternative for people wanting to give their child something a little different to play with.
At present you cannot buy any additional discs for the TIMIO so it would be nice to add a few extras as gifts over time.
My three-year-old and five-year-old really love it. The telling the time disc is brilliant for both kids, however some of the discs are more appropriate for kids aged between two and four. There is definitely enough there to keep kids aged five to six happy as well.
Your chance to WIN a TIMIO device
I’ve teamed up with TIMIO to offer one reader the chance to win their own TIMIO device worth £105. This competition is open to entries in the UK only. Usual terms and conditions apply.
Good luck!
I think TIMIO would be just perfect for my granddaughter.
I think that it seems a great product for children. Would be enjoyed, and taken on travels, etc :- Whenever possible.
This sounds like a fab toy for little ones, my granddaughter would love it.
I think it’s a great way to learn,with having fun x
fab way to learn
These sound great and make fun to learn
Sounds really good! Would help us while homeschooling.
Sounds like a brilliant, fun screen-free alternative.
Looks like a great screen free gadget to encourage independent learning
I love the fact you can learn different languages with it. This is something I would love my children to get into.
This sounds perfect for my son as we don’t have much screen tome
Unique, educational toy.
Awesome giveaway
sounds like a really ideal item for our niece
Looks like really good fun for my little ones x
It’s great Screen free, good for learning for my granddaughter mollie xx
It sounds great, both educational anf fun, should keep the little ones happy for hours
i love that you can learn so many things on it x
Colourful, educational and fun, perfect for independent learning
Love educational toys and screen free learning
It looks very good and I love it my daughter would enjoy using this.
Wow, this looks amazing, would love to give it a try! xx
I think this would be great for my nephew. Can be played anywhere and perfect for his small hands. Learning through play is always a winner.
Timio will be for sure great for my baby. Now he’s only 3 months old, but he already started to be curiois an receptive.
Sounds like a fun way to get your kids to learn. Thanks for the competition!
Fabulous! It is beautifully and thoughtfully designed. Our youngest would absolutely love it.
It sounds amazing, such fun and a great way to learn.
Its a lovley idea, makes learning more fun
It looks and sounds amazing, a great way to learn and have fun
I love the idea that you can switch between languages. My son is being brought up bilingual and so far we mainly had to buy toys for one language or the other. This is brilliant!
It looks fun and educational with lots of different things to try.
I think the TIMIO toy is a lovely screen free and fun way to learn. I also really love the fact that the discs cover so many different topics, switches between different languages and that it is portal.
It looks great fun aswell as helping to learn
I think this looks perfect for my grandchildren and Would help to get them away from their screens!
love the sound of it!
Simply brill great fun way vto learn
Timio looks like a great educational toy, my granddaughter would have so much fun with it.
I think it looks great, and the sort of thing that my autistic foster daughter would love
I like the look of this. A great way of learning through play.
I like the look of this. A great way of learning through play.
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I think it is fun and exciting so more likely to interest the child into learning
This looks like it would be fun and educational!
i think my daughter would love this, looks fun and educational
It looks great and a fun way to learn
A unique educational toy, looks like a lot of fun.
This looks fantastic, love the review and it’s made me want the player even more.
Looks like it’s a great education toy for my grandsom
I love finding screen-free alternatives and this is just fab! Would certainly be something we would use.
SUCH a great concept and would be super useful at the moment to help entertain my daughter during lockdown!
Looks like something my son would definitely enjoy learning with
Sounds brilliant
Learning whilst having fun is always a plus
This looks just amazing x
Our grandson is severely disabled but it looks like he would be able to use it and it would definitely help his fine motor skills while the bright colours would appeal to him
looks like great fun!
My grandchildren would love being able to use it themselves, their mum would love that its screen free fun for them
It looks brilliant
This looks like a lot of fun while also being educational.
Wow! So much fun in a small package.
And the amount of learning the kids can do by themselves or alone. They would love it!
they are a great way to learn
it looks great easy to hold and full of useful information for a child to learn
TIMIO is a fun and exciting way to learn!
I think it looks amazing and my sons would love it. Endless amounts of fun and learning and no screen time!
This looks great, love this which are educational but fun at the same time
I think it’s fab. I love educational toys that put fun into learning.
My friend’s daughter is 4 and I think she’d really enjoy using it.
I think the TIMIO is fantastic. It makes learning fun and I love that it’s not an app on a device so the kids can be hands on x
Lovely looking bit of kit.
This looks like a great portable toy that my children would love
it looks really fun to use my grandson who is 2 1/2 would love it
This looks so much fun. Would love it for my Grandaughter, she loves muic
I think its a wonderful idea! I would definitely buy one for my little boy 🙂
what a fun way to learn,this would be great for my nephew
What a fun way of learning
This would be perfect for young Bobby and Macie
It looks a great fun way to learn
I think that it seems a fun way to learn
Looks great way to learn , know little fellow who would live this
I think they look incredible! I love the fact that it asks questions to your child to help them learn & it’s brilliant it doesn’t need an internet connection, my toddler would really love it!
It reminds me of the classic Fisher price record player, my little ones age 2,3 and 5 would all love it!!
It sounds like a brilliant idea and I know my great grandson would love it
I’m a great believer in Learning Through Play, so this is great
What a great idea … I love the idea of this x
They seem a really fun way to learn!
It looks real cool
I think that it looks great, plenty of things to do
Timo looks like fun and looks like it hits the spot
looks like a fabulous idea and great fun too
This would be great for my 2 year old niece and much better than learning from videos on an IPad! She is very inquisitive so would love this.
So educational and ideal for both my granddaughters aged 3 years and 9 months. No awkward setting up and having an headphone socket is an advantage
looks great my son would love this 😀
It looks fab for my granddaughter Georgia
Looks great fun and educational.
It looks fantastic my boy Charlie 3 loves music and dancing he would love this
sounds fun and its something my little twins would love. Thank you for the chance
I think it’s a great idea. I love the way it works, and the variety of content on the discs (even if they are limited)
It sounds great and a lot of fun!
Wow this looks fab and so easy for the little ones to use! My daughter would love this. Thank you
Looks like a great way to engage children in learning
Amazing competition, thanks.
this looks like a really excellent learning toy/tool
This looks amazing – educational and fun. My grand daughter would love to be able to carry this and it would be perfect for car journeys and holidays
I love it, looks fun and durable also love the colours
Seems pretty cool and good idea for a gifted.
This is an amazing concept,making learning fun,in my opinion,is the best way.
I’d be thrilled to win for granddaughter,she’d have hours of fun with this and learning on top,can only be a good thing.
Thank you for the chance to enter. 🙂
This sounds like a fantastic product for the little ones!
Would be amazing for my little man to enjoy!!
This sounds like a great educational and fun toy, my nephews would love one
It looks fabulous, definitely something my daughter would enjoy
It looks like great educational fun. Colourful too which is great for young children.
This looks fun and educational. It’s very difficult to keep my there year old away from screens and this looks like it would help.