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Highlighter

Easiest Way to Highlight Text on Any Webpage

Are you tired of losing track of important information on webpages? Look no further! With the Highlighter Chrome extension, you can easily highlight text on any webpage with just a few simple steps.

Simple Highlighting Process

Highlighting text has never been easier. Simply select the desired text on a webpage, right-click, and choose the "Highlight" option from the menu. Alternatively, you can use the default keyboard shortcut 'Alt+H' (or '^H' on Mac) for quick and effortless highlighting.

Saved Highlights

One of the most convenient features of the Highlighter extension is that all highlighted texts are automatically saved. This means that your highlights won't disappear when you exit a page. When you revisit the same page, all your highlights will be there, just as you left them.

Please note that while the Highlighter extension works seamlessly on most webpages, it may not be compatible with highly dynamic sites like Facebook or some email clients. However, the developers are continuously working on expanding its compatibility in the future.

View and Manage Your Highlights

With the Highlighter extension, you have easy access to all your highlights. You can view and copy all the highlights on a page with just a few clicks. Additionally, you can select existing highlights and choose to either delete them or copy their content for further use.

Customize Your Highlighting Experience

The Highlighter extension allows you to personalize your highlighting experience. You can customize the highlight colors and even change the text color to suit your preferences. Make your highlights stand out and make information retrieval a breeze.

Change the Keyboard Shortcut

If you prefer a different keyboard shortcut for highlighting text, no worries! You can easily change the default shortcut through the Chrome settings. Just go to 'chrome://extensions/shortcuts' and make the desired adjustments.

Open-Source Project and Community Contributions

The code for the Highlighter extension is fully open-source and available on GitHub. You can find it at https://github.com/jeromepl/highlighter. The developers encourage users to report any issues and contribute to the project, making it even better.

Protecting Your Privacy

We value your privacy and want you to feel secure while using the Highlighter extension. It is important to note that the extension uses Google Analytics to gather non-personal user information and usage data. However, it does not collect browsing information such as the contents of your highlights or the URLs you access.

To learn more about our privacy practices, we invite you to read our privacy policy at https://github.com/jeromepl/highlighter/blob/master/privacy_policy.md.

Start highlighting text effortlessly and never lose track of important information on webpages again with the Highlighter Chrome extension!


Easily highlight text on any webpage

Highlights are saved and restored when reopening a page

View and copy all highlights on a page

Change highlight colors and text color

Does not work on dynamic webpages like Facebook

Limited keyboard shortcut customization

3.7
317 reviews
30 Reviews For This Extension
Priya

I am facing an issue with the text color when using the highlighter extension. On my first Gmail/Chrome profile, the highlighter works correctly: when I highlight text, the background becomes yellow and the text automatically changes to black for better visibility. However, on my second Gmail/Chrome profile, the highlighter only changes the background color to yellow while the text remains white. This makes the highlighted text difficult to read. I noticed that your documentation mentions "Customize your highlight colors (and text color)." I have checked the settings, but the behavior is still inconsistent between my two accounts. Could you please help me understand: Why the text color is automatically changed on one account but not the other? Is there a setting to force highlighted text to use a contrasting color (e.g., black on yellow)? Could this be a bug related to account synchronization or profile settings?

Davoud Nosrati

Just what I needed. Would be nice to add a backup functionality.

Akhi

works

Sang Nguyễn

Quite good

Janak Bahadur Uparkoti

no web highlighter can beat this highlighter: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/highlight-extension/ppmmmemdbkneichkikbkfbcifpigdldf

Andrew Haddleton (GIG Internet Marketing)

It doesn't work. It won't even highlight text let alone retain it.

Blessy Ross Cayago

doesn't work the way it used to

H Quizzagan

I really love this extensions because - it's very simple (that is if you already bookmark you pages, and thus, when you revisit them, your highlights are there) - easy to setup a keyboard shortcut - easy to configure custom colours However, I was wondering if the developer is either working on some feature enhancements or perhaps interested to collaborate on these - Add notes or annotations aside from the highlight - Save and share the same highlighted page to other people by sharing a link (i.e. when I find some articles and I highlight key points, how I wish I can share that page with my highlights) - Sync between browsers. For example, I am using `Arc Browser` on different laptops due to work, and it would be really nice to have the pages I highlight with this extension get synced on the same account/browser profile across devices (I know it'll be complex, but it'll be good) I know the extension is free and practically "stateless" (i.e. it does not persist things beyond the local memory if I am not mistaken, did not bother looking into it further), but it would be very useful to have these.

Sandeep Kumar

doesn't work

Mohammad Rahimi

super cool! but I have to backup manually.

Εμμελεια Τσουγκαρακη

Perfect, thank you!!! I needed this for work. When my website refreshes, it still keeps the highlight!! It's simple & easy to change the color, perfect, thank you!!!

Jane Halliday

great stuff! works in surprising places (such as comparing phones using gsm arena), always consistent!

Bryan Williams

doesnt circle stuff

Adil Hussain

A real great tool, deserving of 5 stars. However, the fact that when the highlights are pasted, there appear ghost spaces randomly (usually around hyperlinks). Also there is no option to retain formatting and the text is pasted as text-only.

Konstantin Titarenko

If you select on LinkedIn pages that have reactivity, then this reactivity breaks. For example, if you select a name on a profile page and go to another profile, the page does not reload and the selected text remains from the old profile.

Rosaini Sulaiman

i am unable to see highlight.

Charlie Van hal

helps with science

vu lam

delete all button creata a side effect of reload the page, this is undesirable and may result in damage

Oscar Zhao

This extension worked quite well in the beginning but then it just broke on me, it wouldnt highlight and whenever i tried to install and re install it would still give me the same problem.

joo

Simple to use and clean. Exactly what I wanted!

Mantas

Works perfectly thank you !

Liam Ryan

Absolutely outstanding. I love that the app saves all of the highlights. This is so useful for later reference. Thank you so much for the company that made this. :)

Asya W

Originally was going to say it doesn't work but I just had to refresh my screens after installing the extension. I love it!! Love that I could create my own shortcut. I used cmd + H to highlight which is more convenient than the original for me

Asya Wilson

Originally was going to say it doesn't work but I just had to refresh my screens after installing the extension. I love it!! Love that I could create my own shortcut. I used cmd + H to highlight which is more convenient than the original for me

Karla

Doesn't work

Karl

Doesn't work

Olive Dargis

Can't get it to work at all for me. 12/11/2024 on a Mac. I downloaded super simple highlighter instead it worked great with no issues.

Văn Phi

Good stuff, this is what i have been searching for a long time !!!

Elinor J

I've enjoyed this addon for months. I switched to this from another highlighter addon as this one would actually save the highlights in a more reliable manner. Recently it's stopped working though; my old highlights are still there, but if I try to make any new ones they disappear when I refresh the page. Hopefully this will be fixed as I've found this addon very helpful. I'm using it on the edge browser.

Jeorge Del

Highlighting does not work at all for me either.

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