Weava Highlighter - PDF & Web

Best highlighting tool for Website and PDF. FREE and easy to use.

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Weava Highlighter is a powerful Chrome extension designed to simplify your research on websites and PDFs. It allows users to highlight text in multiple colors, add annotations, and organize these highlights into folders and sub-folders. The extension automatically creates citations for your highlights and syncs all data in the cloud, enabling access from anywhere.

Trusted by over 2 million users including students, researchers, and professionals, Weava helps save an average of 3.8+ hours weekly by streamlining the research process. Weava Premium offers enhanced features like customizable colors, unlimited sub-folders and storage, image clipping, and real-time collaboration. Its intuitive interface, robust organization system, and cloud synchronization make researching more efficient and productive.

By:: https://weavatools.com
Users:: 300,000+
Rating:: 4.07
(2,716)
Version:: 2.0.44 (Last updated: 2024-02-06)
Creation date:: 2020-06-16
Risk:: Very high risk impact Very low risk likelihood
Permissions:: contextMenus
declarativeNetRequest
scripting
storage
tabs
unlimitedStorage
webNavigation
webRequest
notifications
Host permissions:: http://*/*
https://*/*
file://*/*.pdf*
*://*.weavatools.com/*
https://weava-files-storage.s3.amazonaws.com/pdf/*
https://weava-files-storage-dev.s3.amazonaws.com/pdf/*
Size:: 8.65M
Email:: in*****@weavatools.com
URLs:: Website ,Privacy policy
Full description:: See detailed description
Source:: Chrome Web Store
Updated:: a day ago

Ranking

# 983 ▲ 5

Other rankings

#2727 in Workflow & Planning ▲ 2

#4 in highlighter keyword 53

#13 in pdf keyword 82 ▲ 1

#40 in permission keyword 13

#52 in permissions keyword 6 ▼ 1

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User reviews

Users appreciate Weava's ease of highlighting multiple colors on PDFs and web pages, supporting research and note-taking. However, most reviews report bugs such as disappearing highlights, instability, and slow performance. Additionally, many users find the free version limited and express frustration over poor or absent customer support. These issues greatly impact reliability and user experience, making the extension less dependable for long-term daily use.

Pros

Allows highlighting text on PDFs and web pages easily.
Supports multiple colors for highlighting, useful for organizing notes.
Helpful for educational research and legal document annotation.
Automatically stores highlights for later reference.

Cons

Extension is buggy and unstable, with frequent glitches and lag.
Highlights often disappear, especially after zooming or closing documents.
Poor customer support and unresponsiveness to user inquiries.
Free version is very limited; many features require premium subscription to work properly.
Issues with loading and opening PDFs, causing lost work and frustration.

Recent reviews

works sometimes okay but really annoying to use. the highlighter panel moves too quickly when trying to highlight a text segment. sometimes instead of highlighting, the text is zoomed in. also, the highlights are not visible when zooming in or out. also does not allow to highlight some segments of text.

kevät sova, 2025-04-23

I also use the Google Translate plugin when I select text, and it would be better if your plugin syncs with the Google Translate plugin, which has a better user interface.

time linux, 2025-04-13

Not working at all!

John, 2025-04-02

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Extension safety

Risk impact

Weava Highlighter - PDF & Web requires a lot of sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details

Critical Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
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Risk likelihood

Weava Highlighter - PDF & Web has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

Risk likelihood analysis details

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