Tolan

Tolan is a consumer AI companion application built by Portola and backed by Homebrew. The product is a friendly alien character that users befriend for emotional support, daily check-ins, and relationship guidance through conversational AI on iOS. Tolan reports 100,000+ subscribers, over two million hours of user engagement, and a 4.8-star App Store rating across 160,000+ reviews. It is a mobile-first, direct-to-consumer product with no public developer API, documentation, or programmatic surface; this profile captures the company identity and web properties for the API Evangelist network.

Tolan is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Ai, AI Companion, Consumer, and Mobile.

Tolan’s developer surface includes engineering blog, support, signup flow, and 4 more developer resources.

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14.9/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
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CompanyAiAI CompanionConsumerMobileConversational AIEmotional SupportiOS

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 14.9/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 1.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 6.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only
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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Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Tolan Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

SignUp
SignUp

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support
Support

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService
TermsOfService
 PrivacyPolicy
PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 Blog
Blog

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: tolan
name: Tolan
description: Tolan is a consumer AI companion application built by Portola and backed by Homebrew. The product is a friendly
  alien character that users befriend for emotional support, daily check-ins, and relationship guidance through conversational
  AI on iOS. Tolan reports 100,000+ subscribers, over two million hours of user engagement, and a 4.8-star App Store rating
  across 160,000+ reviews. It is a mobile-first, direct-to-consumer product with no public developer API, documentation, or
  programmatic surface; this profile captures the company identity and web properties for the API Evangelist network.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/tolan/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- homebrew
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://www.tolans.com/favicon.ico
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-21'
tags:
- Company
- Ai
- AI Companion
- Consumer
- Mobile
- Conversational AI
- Emotional Support
- iOS
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/tolan-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.tolans.com
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.tolans.com/blog
- type: Support
  url: https://www.tolans.com/faq
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.tolans.com/terms-of-service
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.tolans.com/privacy-policy
- type: SignUp
  url: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tolan-alien-best-friend/id6477549878
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-21'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 1
  pass: local-v1