Helicon

A dark page for your PDFs on iPad.

Pick Night, Slate, Midnight or Dusk, and Helicon draws every page of your PDF in it. Your highlights still show, and speed reading lights the words on the dark page.

No account. For iPhone and iPad with iOS 26 or later.

Download on the App Store

Eight page colours, four of them dark.

Paper, Sepia, Mist and Sage are light. Slate, Night, Midnight and Dusk are dark. System follows your device: Paper by day, Night after dark. The whole app takes the page's colour, so a dark page never sits in a white frame.

Your marks stay in view.

Highlights show on a dark page, and the page keeps a PDF's own colours: a navy heading stays navy. Speed reading lights the line you read, and you choose how dark the rest of the page goes.

What Helicon does today.

  • Four dark page colours
  • A PDF keeps its dark page
  • EPUB books too
  • Highlights on dark pages
  • Speed reading on the page

Read more on the Helicon home page.

Read your next book on a dark page.

Download on the App Store

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