Reads great at night
A free ebook reader with a true dark mode
A dark mode that's actually designed
A real dark mode isn’t an inverted page — it’s a palette. goread’s Midnighttheme pairs a warm near-black background with soft off-white type, the kind of contrast you can read by for hours without the 1 a.m. glare. Set it to System and it arrives the moment your phone goes dark.
It’s one of five reading themes — Daylight, Paper, Sepia, Midnight, and a paper-like e-ink mode for actual e-readers — and the switch lives right in the reader, a tap away mid-chapter.
Built for the eyes, not just the brand
Warm midnight mode
Near-black, never pure black — paired with soft off-white type for contrast you can sit with for hours.
Auto light & dark
Match your system theme and switch automatically when your phone does at sunset.
Kind to tired eyes
No glaring white page at midnight — just a calm, low-glow surface that won't fight your sleep.
Tune the type, too
Adjust size, line height and margins so the page is comfortable, not just correctly coloured.
Try it on a classic
Open one and switch to midnight from the reader.
Frankenstein
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle
Dracula
Bram Stoker
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
Jane Eyre: An Autobiography
Charlotte Brontë
Moby Dick
Herman Melville
A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka
Questions, answered
Is the dark mode a real dark theme or just an inverted page?
It's a designed theme, not an invert. Midnight mode uses a warm near-black background and a soft off-white type colour, tuned for contrast that's comfortable rather than glaring.
Will it follow my phone's dark mode automatically?
Yes — set the theme to System and goread matches your device's light or dark setting, then switches with it. You can also lock it to one theme any time from the reader.
Why not just use my phone's system dark mode?
System dark mode darkens menus and apps, but a book still needs a reading palette of its own. Midnight mode is designed for the page itself — the right black, the right off-white, the right warmth — rather than a blanket inversion.
Keep exploring
Read into the night
Flip any classic to midnight mode and read until the small hours, easy on the eyes.
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