Talkray

Talkray (operated by TiKL, Inc., a Y Combinator W12 startup founded in 2012 by Zafer Ahmed in Redwood City, California) was a free cross-platform messaging and calling app spanning the TiKL Touch-To-Talk and Talkray consumer apps, which together saw roughly 28 million downloads. In 2013 the company announced the Talkray Developer API, a white-label cloud platform for embedding one-on-one and group text chat, group voice calls, voicemail, push notifications, and image/video transfer into third-party mobile apps and games. That API never left private beta and no public documentation, OpenAPI, SDKs, or developer portal were ever published. The company is now defunct (deadpooled) - active development ceased around 2018 and the app was removed from Google Play in February 2021. talkray.com currently sits behind Cloudflare and returns HTTP 403 for all paths.

Talkray is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Messaging, Communications, Voice, and Mobile.

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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Composite quality — 6.8/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

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Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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name: Talkray
description: Talkray (operated by TiKL, Inc., a Y Combinator W12 startup founded in 2012 by Zafer Ahmed in Redwood City, California)
  was a free cross-platform messaging and calling app spanning the TiKL Touch-To-Talk and Talkray consumer apps, which together
  saw roughly 28 million downloads. In 2013 the company announced the Talkray Developer API, a white-label cloud platform
  for embedding one-on-one and group text chat, group voice calls, voicemail, push notifications, and image/video transfer
  into third-party mobile apps and games. That API never left private beta and no public documentation, OpenAPI, SDKs, or
  developer portal were ever published. The company is now defunct (deadpooled) - active development ceased around 2018 and
  the app was removed from Google Play in February 2021. talkray.com currently sits behind Cloudflare and returns HTTP 403
  for all paths.
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