What we do

Products: We build agile web applications aimed at individuals, freelancers and small businesses. Our apps have free and paid accounts, mobile phone support and web APIs.

Research: We're currently designing Mac desktop software and iPhone apps.

Commissions: Helicoid commissions art, get in touch for more info.

About us

Team: Alex Young is the company founder, developer and designer of Helicoid's apps. Yuka Young is a copywriter and manages customer support. Kevin Ford is our systems administrator.

Location: Helicoid is based in London, England.

Press: Visit our press resources for high quality icons and more.

Other projects


Wed May 05

Helipad is now available over secure connections with SSL. Just visit https://helipadapp.com. It's worth adding to your bookmarks. All content is optionally served over SSL, including login and pub...

Sun Apr 25

Helipad now a new look! The changes are focused on improving productivity and making the app feel faster. These design changes are a year in the making -- after many false starts I feel like we've ...

Thu Mar 18

Helipad has been updated to include multiple tag search. If you visit /document/tags/tag1 tag2 tag3 it will display documents that match all of the tags. The web interface needs to be updated to su...

Tue Mar 02

This post is written by Yuka who designed Ebiwrite. Yuka discusses translating 37signals' latest book, Rework, and reflects on the software used by the translation team. This post is also in Japan...

Wed Jan 06

Helipad iPhone version 1.6 has been submitted to the App Store. This version includes the following new features and fixes: Add a new document to a folder Share editor now appears properly from wi...

Sun Dec 27

Helipad Mac has a new update out, which includes a tag cloud, drag and drop for folders, and a line height adjustment option in the Appearance preferences. Full List of Changes Drag and drop docu...

Mon Dec 07

Helipad Mac now has folders and full screen support. To edit folders, select a document then press the Folders button. Add a folder, double-click it to rename, them click the checkbox to add the d...

Fri Nov 20

Helipad Mac has been updated. This version makes the following changes: Added automatic app updates Documents can now be sorted by the last edited date (go to Preferences, Appearance to change th...

Thu Oct 29

Riot is a unit testing library that I've been using on a few new Helicoid products/features, and some of my open source projects. It has incredibly concise syntax, and I liked it so much that I wro...

Thu Oct 29

Riot is a unit testing library that I've been using on a few new Helicoid products/features, and some of my open source projects. It has incredibly concise syntax, and I liked it so much that I wro...