Reviews of Highlight Pen

List of user reviews and ratings for Highlight Pen

Total ratings

2.90 (Rating count: 50)

Review summary

Highlight Pen is praised for its ease of use, customizable highlight colors, and privacy-focused design without ads or unwanted sharing. However, multiple users report inability to remove or undo highlights, loss of highlights after page reload, and absence of keyboard shortcuts. Some users find the interface or usage confusing, while a few mention spammy behavior. Overall, it is a simple, privacy-conscious highlighter good for casual use but needing improvements in highlight management and usability.
Pros
  • Easy to use for highlighting text with right-click after selecting text
  • Allows changing the color of the highlighter
  • No ads or interruptions during use
  • Does not share or sync highlights publicly, ensuring privacy
  • Useful for online courses and note-taking
Cons
  • Cannot easily remove or undo highlights once made
  • Highlights are not saved persistently; they are lost on page reload
  • Lacks keyboard shortcuts for highlighting and removal
  • Some users find the usage unintuitive or complicated without clear instructions
  • Reports of the add-on opening unwanted tabs or spam
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User reviews

Recent rating average: 3.20
All time rating average: 2.90
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5 star
36% (10)
4 star
11% (3)
3 star
11% (3)
2 star
7% (2)
1 star
36% (10)
Date Author Rating Comment
2024-11-11 Solvx does the job but should also have ability to easily remove highlights
2024-04-09 Elias a ferramenta funciona muito bem, mas falta mais opções de cores.
2024-01-16 Geliemae No option to undo highlight
2023-06-25 Siyu overall very good. Would even be better if it can save highlights for the same page.
2023-04-23 Kevin I agree with Michelle, works just fine. For those who may struggle: 1. Download/install addon 2. Click on icon, read various options (you can change color of highlighter here in "extension options) 3. To highlight: click and drag your cursor on whatever text you want to highlight, once it is selected (blue, with white text), right click and you'll see the "highlight pen" icon down towards the bottom of the prompt. 4. click that icon and boom, highlighted! Not that hard.
2023-02-23 Paola No sé cómo usarla. ¡¡¡Ayuda!!!. 😥😭😓
2022-05-10 Javier Estaría bien que tuviera una combinación de teclado para resaltar. Por ejemplo, ctrl +l.
2022-01-16 Do 好像只能选中文本后右键菜单里标记高亮,太麻烦了。
2021-12-04 CYRANO FRTJK
2021-09-17 Steven Unlike the five [!] other highlight add-ons I tried, this one *actually works*. (Well "Highlight It! - Annotation tool" (NB NOT *this* add-on but another one no longer available) *did* work until Edge disabled it and flagged it as malware, eek!) Oh, one other one highlighting addon sort of worked but posts every page you make highlights on as publicly accessible to anyone[!!!!!] - is that *terrible* security or what? So if you just want a basic highlighter (you can set whatever colors you want) without the need to sync or share highlights, *this* add-on, Highlight Pen, is the add-on for you!
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