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Yomi
A little cat who loves being read to
Yomi is a little cat who gets fed when kids read stories aloud. Speech recognition listens along, kids can tap any tricky word to hear it, and a simple wizard lets them make up their own stories to read back. Real stories come at three levels, so kids pick what feels right today. What's not in it: streaks, ads, accounts, or data collection. No one loses a 14-day streak at bedtime. Yomi won't teach your kid to read, it gives them a reason to practice. Ages 5–9, English & Finnish, iOS.
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About Yomi on Product Hunt
“A little cat who loves being read to”
Yomi launched on Product Hunt on August 27th, 2026 and earned 144 upvotes and 25 comments, placing #7 on the daily leaderboard. Yomi is a little cat who gets fed when kids read stories aloud. Speech recognition listens along, kids can tap any tricky word to hear it, and a simple wizard lets them make up their own stories to read back. Real stories come at three levels, so kids pick what feels right today. What's not in it: streaks, ads, accounts, or data collection. No one loses a 14-day streak at bedtime. Yomi won't teach your kid to read, it gives them a reason to practice. Ages 5–9, English & Finnish, iOS.
On the analytics side, Yomi competes within Kids and Education — topics that collectively have 83.1k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Yomi performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
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Yomi was hunted by Elina Patjas. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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Hi Product Hunt. I'm Elina, and this is my second launch. 🐱
Yomi is a little cat who loves being read to. Kids read stories out loud, Yomi listens (speech recognition), and every word feeds the cat a little. Tomorrow Yomi is hungry again.
I'm a designer, and I've spent years building educational tools with teachers. In a workshop with first- and second-grade teachers, one question kept coming back: why do some kids freeze when asked to read aloud, even when they can read just fine on their own? A few months later my own kid was doing exactly that, reading silently, refusing to read aloud to anyone. I didn't want to force it. I wanted to build her somewhere safe to practise.
The apps I tried first made it worse, not better: streaks that made bedtime stressful, fire emojis that made her feel bad for taking a day off.
So Yomi deliberately has:
– no streaks (nobody should lose a 14-day streak at bedtime)
– no ads
– no accounts, no data collection
– no leaderboards, no coins, no levels for the kid, only the cat, who is happy today because you read to it
To be honest about what it is: Yomi won't teach your kid to read. Teachers and parents do that. Yomi just gives kids a reason to want the practice, real stories at three levels, tap a word to hear it, and a little wizard for making up your own stories to read back.
It's on iOS in English and Finnish. I'd love to hear from parents here: what made reading practice work (or not work) at your house?