ToyTalk was a San Francisco conversational AI company founded in 2011 that built voice and chat characters for entertainment, rebranded as PullString in 2016, and was acquired by Apple in early 2019. Its developer platform - the PullString Web API plus Converse and Author tooling for authoring conversational experiences - was shut down after the acquisition. Today pullstring.com and toytalk.com no longer resolve and both domains are parked on Apple nameservers, the github.com/pullstring organization has been deleted, and the only surviving first-party developer artifact is the orphaned pullstring JavaScript SDK on npm. This profile records that historical developer surface; there is no live API.
ToyTalk is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Conversational AI, Voice, Chatbots, and Entertainment.
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aid: toytalk
deliveryModel:
model: library
open_source: false
commercial: false
callable_host: false
label: Library · distributed through package registries, no callable service
confidence: low
source:
- none
generated: '2026-08-28'
method: derived
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://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/toytalk.png
name: ToyTalk
description: ToyTalk was a San Francisco conversational AI company founded in 2011 that built voice and chat characters for
entertainment, rebranded as PullString in 2016, and was acquired by Apple in early 2019. Its developer platform - the PullString
Web API plus Converse and Author tooling for authoring conversational experiences - was shut down after the acquisition.
Today pullstring.com and toytalk.com no longer resolve and both domains are parked on Apple nameservers, the github.com/pullstring
organization has been deleted, and the only surviving first-party developer artifact is the orphaned pullstring JavaScript
SDK on npm. This profile records that historical developer surface; there is no live API.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/toytalk/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- 500-global
- slow-ventures
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-enrichment:
date: '2026-07-21'
status: enriched
artifacts_added: 3
pass: local-v1
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-09-15'
tags:
- Company
- Conversational AI
- Voice
- Chatbots
- Entertainment
- Acquired
- Defunct
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
url: security/toytalk-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
url: https://pullstring.com
- type: Packages
url: packages/toytalk-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
url: packages/toytalk-packages.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
url: llms/toytalk-llms.txt
x-status: defunct
x-lifecycle:
state: deprecated
reason: domain-does-not-resolve
observed: '2026-09-27'
detail: The company's own domain returned no A or AAAA record when probed. This is an observation about the domain, not
a request from the company.
indexed: true
x-acquired-by: apple
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