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UPDATED 23 October 2026 216 REPORTS · 172 COMPANIES

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Inkitt's Ironblood goes live with six originals

The all-AI action and science-fiction vertical service is streaming on the web with six originals, and its iOS and Android apps are published.

What this basis means: Disclosed by the company about itself, and not independently confirmed.

Ironblood, Inkitt's vertical service for action, superhero and science-fiction titles, went live on 14 July 2026, a day before its announced date of 15 July. The web app is streaming with six originals; the iOS app is published under App Store ID 6778979486 and the Android package is com.ironblood.android.

Inkitt describes it as the first AI-native streaming platform built exclusively for action, superhero and science fiction, with around 30 new titles a month, stories selected by the company's ReadRank behavioural model and produced with its in-house Cinematic AI. Its claim of a roughly 99% reduction in production cost is company-claimed and unaudited.

Ironblood is a live test of whether AI production makes the non-romance genres economically reachable in a category whose established apps are built on romance.

Companies Inkitt, Ironblood

Sources

  • Ironblood service and app listings Inkitt