# ToyTalk

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/toytalk/  
**Website:** https://pullstring.com  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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.

## Kin Score — 7.2 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 7.2).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 57.4 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 7.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

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

## Access

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

## Security (1)

- **Toytalk Domain Security** — no transport/DNS hardening detected

## Tags

Company, Conversational AI, Voice, Chatbots, Entertainment, Acquired, Defunct

---

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