Independent App & Product Studio

Form follows need.

We build our own apps and digital products. With the same care we build selected projects for others and produce creative work for brands.

The first form is called VERSIQ.

Our products start like all our work: with a real need. VERSIQ is a songwriting workspace for musicians. Lyrics, your own beat, vocal sketches and song structure stay together in one project.

Now on iPhone

  1. Write.

    Your lyrics take shape while your own beat plays. Verse, hook and new lines stay in the same song.

  2. Record.

    Capture vocal sketches right inside the song. Named, dated and ready to play back.

  3. Layer.

    Lead, hook, doubles and adlibs on their own tracks in Sketch Studio. In landscape you see the whole song.

Recorded straight from the app Song “Nachtlicht”
VERSIQ app icon

VERSIQSongwriting Workspace · A NEEDFORM Product

No account needed, your projects are stored locally on the device. No AI writing for you and no DAW replacement: a focused place for your song ideas.

Download on the App Store (opens in a new tab)See VERSIQ

More of our own products are in development. We will show them when they are ready.

NEEDFORM Studio

What we build for ourselves, we also build for you.

Selected app and product projects with a concrete problem and a scope we agree on up front. We don’t rent out developers. We build products with clear boundaries.

One need. One form.Pick what fits you.

From idea to launch: we clarify what the app should do, design it and build it, within a scope we agree on together.

Discuss an app project

A clear identity, a page that explains your product and leads to inquiries, and the images for the launch.

Discuss a launch

Product films, fashion and brand films, launch campaigns. From the first image idea to the finished film.

Discuss a creative project

A clearly bounded, recurring process gets automated. You stay in control.

Discuss a process

Always in the same order

  1. Understand

    What should change, and how do we recognise a good result?

  2. Build

    Agree on direction and scope. Then build, from the first draft to the finished solution.

  3. Prove

    Measure against the shared goal. What works, we keep developing.

Creative Production

Images that carry a product.

Creative is a discipline of its own here, open to external brands. From the first image idea to the finished film.

Discuss a creative project

Motion study, final frame: a matte black container with a ribbed lid on a round plinth, orange rim light and a glowing line at its base.
  1. Art Direction
  2. Form & 3D
  3. Light & Material
  4. Finish

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One studio. Three formats.

Every film is made the hybrid way: art direction and 3D give the form, generative AI brings light, material and motion, edit and finish complete it. What differs is the purpose.

  1. 01Product Films
  2. 02Fashion & Brand Films
  3. 03Launch Campaigns

01

Product Films

The product as the lead. For Plugraphics the tub comes apart into its pieces and closes again: lid, seal, print.

Plugraphics tub in exploded view: lid, inner tub, seal and body stacked. Close-up of the holographic Plugraphics label with the plug logo.
Client project Plugraphics (opens in a new tab) Design, Print & Packaging

02

Fashion & Brand Films

Attitude, place and fabric. For our label VIVALDI: “Milano Vice”, a collection between concrete, rain and neon.

VIVALDI “Milano Vice” key visual: the title above a housing block at night, the model in the black shirt in front. The model in the Milano Vice shirt on a rain-soaked rooftop in front of concrete facades.
VIVALDI Own brand Milano Vice collection

03

Launch Campaigns

One idea, many formats. For VERSIQ: a vertical launch film and App Store visuals drawn from the same line.

App Store visual “Every song starts with a line” with the VERSIQ writing view. App Store visual “Stack your voices” with VERSIQ Sketch Studio.
VERSIQ Own product Launch campaign

From idea to filmArt direction 3D & generative AI Edit & finish

Discuss a creative project

As complex as necessary. As simple as possible.

What is your need?

A few sentences are enough: an app, a product or a creative idea. We will find the right path together.

Maxim GärtnerNEEDFORM · Kiel

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A first idea is enough. You don’t need a finished brief here.

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