# Sensel

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/sensel/  
**Website:** https://sensel.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 1

Sensel is a Sunnyvale, California touch-input company founded in 2013 by Ilya Rosenberg and Aaron Zarraga, building high-resolution force-sensing hardware — the Morph pressure-sensitive input device and the force-sensing touchpad technology shipped in laptops such as Lenovo's ThinkPad X1 Titanium Yoga. Its developer surface is not a web API: the Sensel API is an open-source, MIT-licensed C library (LibSensel) that talks to Sensel devices over USB/serial, published at github.com/sensel/sensel-api with C, C#, Python, Arduino, Processing, Max and Pure Data bindings and documented at guide.sensel.com. Sensel's intellectual property, physical assets and trademarks were acquired by Cirque Corporation (an Alps Alpine company), and sensel.com now 301-redirects to cirque.com/sensel.

## Kin Score — 17.2 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-09-02 under rubric 0.18.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 17.2).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 66.7 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 40.5 |
| Commercial Clarity | 10.5 |
| Access Clarity | 10.5 |

## Agent readiness — 5.4 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | documented |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## APIs (1)

- **Sensel API (LibSensel)** — The Sensel API is a C library for communicating with Sensel devices (Morph and Sensel sensor boards). It is a LOCAL DEVICE API, not an HTTP service: an application links LibSens...

## Security (1)

- **Sensel Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Sensel Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Company, Touch Input, Haptics, Sensors, Hardware, Human Interface Devices, Embedded, Open-Source, Device SDK, Music Technology

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/sensel/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.