2026Case study+212% online revenue in one season
Maison Vela
2026Fragrance house — flagship e-commerce
Independent digital studio — booking Q1 2027
The web,hand‑made.
Apple Ape Studios is a design & engineering studio building cinematic digital experiences for brands that refuse the template.
ScrollBengaluru
The studio
A website is architecture you walk through with your thumb. We design fewer things, more carefully — rooms of type, light and motion that make a brand feel inevitable.
Serious work. Unserious name.
- Founded 2017 — independent since
- Fourteen people. No juniors, no hand-offs
- Bengaluru, working in every timezone
What we do
Four disciplines,one standard.
- Brand
Brand identity
Naming, identity systems and art direction that give a company a face worth remembering. We design marks that survive shrinking to a favicon and stretching across a billboard.
Strategy & naming · Identity systems · Art direction · Brand guidelines
- Web
Web experiences
Marketing sites, e-commerce and editorial platforms with the pacing of good cinema. Fast enough to feel weightless, considered enough to feel expensive.
Marketing sites · E-commerce · Editorial platforms · CMS architecture
- 3D / Motion
Creative technology
WebGL scenes, shaders and real-time 3D that run at sixty frames on a mid-range phone. The moments people screenshot and send to their team.
WebGL & shaders · Real-time 3D · Motion systems · Interactive installations
- Product
Product design
Interfaces and design systems for products that people use every day. We sweat the empty states, the error copy and the four-hundred-millisecond transitions.
Product interfaces · Design systems · Prototyping · Design engineering
Selected work
Built to be remembered.
2025Case studySold out first run in eleven days
Nocturne Audio
2025Hardware launch — WebGL configurator
2025Case study38 min average reading session
Atlas & Pine
2025Travel journal — editorial platform
2024Case studySite of the Day, twice over
Oro Estate
2024Vineyard — immersive story site
2024Case studyReadership tripled in six months
Field Theory
2024Research journal — digital publication
Built in-house
Not everythingwe build is for hire.
Client work sharpens us; our own products prove us. Each venture below was designed, engineered and is still operated by the team in this building — from first sketch to production traffic.
Fintech infrastructureIn-house
Tokenization Platform
Turns buildings, funds and fine instruments into compliant digital shares. Issuers mint, investors subscribe, and the paperwork becomes smart contracts that enforce themselves.
- Real-world asset tokenization
- Fractional ownership
- Smart-contract automation
- Compliance-ready architecture
Solidity · EVM chains · Next.js · PostgreSQL
Mobile gamingIn-house
Gully Run
An endless runner through the back streets — built, tuned and operated entirely by our own team. Sixty frames on a five-year-old phone, and a live-ops calendar that keeps players coming back.
- One codebase, both stores
- Global leaderboards
- Live events & in-app rewards
- Backend built to spike
Unity · C# · Go · Redis
Events & Web3In-house
NFT Ticketing Platform
Tickets that can't be forged and scalpers can't flip. Every seat is an NFT with rules attached — verified at the gate in a second, kept as a collectible after the encore.
- NFT tickets, anti-scalp by design
- Controlled secondary market
- One-second QR gate checks
- Post-event collectibles
Solidity · IPFS · React Native · GraphQL
The muscle behind them
- Blockchain
- Web3
- Tokenization
- NFT infrastructure
- Game development
- AI
- Cloud infrastructure
- Scalable engineering
How we work
Four steps.No theatrics.
The order below is the order things actually happen — a working rhythm refined over nine years, not a slide from a pitch deck.
01
Listen
Every engagement starts with silence on our side. We interview your team, your customers and your sceptics, then map what the work actually has to do — not what a brief says it should.
Weeks 1–2
02
Shape
Design happens in the open. You see typography studies, moodboards and motion sketches early, while changing direction is still cheap. Nothing is revealed from behind a curtain.
Weeks 3–6
03
Build
Designers and engineers sit in the same room, so nothing is lost in translation. Staging links from week one; you watch the site grow up rather than meet it as a stranger.
Weeks 6–10
04
Tend
Launch is a beginning. We stay for the measurement, the iteration and the awkward questions analytics asks — most of our clients are on their second or third project with us.
Ongoing
Client words
They treated our little fragrance house like a couture client. Every review felt like being handed something wrapped — and the numbers followed the craft.
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Tools of the trade
Next.jsReactTypeScriptThree.jsWebGLGLSLGSAPFramer MotionNext.jsReactTypeScriptThree.jsWebGLGLSLGSAPFramer Motion
The stack changes when something better arrives. The standard — sixty frames per second, accessible to everyone, fast on a phone in a lift — does not.
Why teams choose us
Small on purpose,senior by design.
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Years, independently run
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Products & sites shipped
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International design awards
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Clients who come back
Principals, not account managers
The people who pitch you are the people who design and build your project. There is no hand-off to a B-team, because there is no B-team.
Six projects a year
We cap our engagements so every project gets senior attention from first call to launch. Scarcity isn't a sales tactic here; it's how the quality survives.
Design and engineering, one room
No throwing mockups over a wall. The person animating the interface sits beside the person who drew it, which is why the details ship intact.
Questions
Asked,answered.
Anything else on your mind? One email reaches the whole team — hello@appleapestudios.com.
Two engagements open for Q1 2027
Let’s makesomething rare.
Or simply write to hello@appleapestudios.com — a principal replies within a day.