ToyTalk

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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8.1/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanyConversational AIVoiceChatbotsEntertainmentAcquiredDefunct

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

Composite quality — 8.1/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 1.3 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 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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Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Packages

Packages

SDKs

SDKs

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: toytalk
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  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: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-21'
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