Highlight Magic

Enables user to highlight words

What is Highlight Magic?

"Highlight Magic" is a Chrome extension designed to enhance reading and research efficiency by allowing users to easily highlight and organize text on websites. Users can assign colors to words, import lists, sync across devices, and more. The tool also includes a quick find feature, case sensitivity options, regex support, site blacklisting, and a new style tab for customization. With features such as dark mode and updated GUI, Highlight Magic offers a user-friendly experience for managing web highlights.

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Extension stats

By: Highlight Magic

View on Chrome Web Store

Users: 5,000+

Rating: 4.06 (31)

Version: 1.1.4 (Last updated: 2024-02-02)

Creation date: 2020-09-23

Risk impact: Moderate risk impact

Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Permissions:

tabs
storage
contextMenus

Size: 428.03K

Email: hi*****@gmail.com

Ranking

# 14323 ▼ 34

Other rankings

#847 in Workflow & Planning ▲ 2

#12 in magic keyword 35 ▼ 3

#116 in transfer keyword 13 ▼ 19

#126 in highlighter keyword 42 ▼ 6

#130 in complete keyword 13 ▼ 29

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Other platforms

Highlight 7 (v1.1.4)

3.57

(7) 43

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Extension summary

Analyze keywords

A simple highlight tool which enables anyone to highlight words on any website.

*The tool went through a slight overhaul, please check the "What's new 1.1.3" below!

Features:

Assign color for each word
Import from raw list or text file new
Lists are a single color by default new
Group your words into lists for easier organization
Sync function to transfer your lists across devices.
Import/Export your lists.
Quickfind, ctrl-shift-f to bring up quickfind and search instantly, save later.
Each word in the list can be case sensitive
Can use regular expression tokens

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.

Pros

Effectively highlights specific pre-determined words on a webpage.
Supports multiple word phrases and case sensitivity.
Can toggle highlighting lists on and off.

Cons

Randomness in highlighting colors is difficult to control.
No clear documentation for importing word lists.
Sync does not work between instances of Chrome.

Most mentioned

Highlighting issues with specific characters or symbols.
Problems with reapplying highlights after refreshing or closing the list.
Lack of ability to input multiple words at once.

Recent reviews

This works like a charm. Even the German Umlauts show which is rare for any highlighter I tried. I had some difficulties in the beginning with importing a txt list, until I realized that every word in the list needs to be listed under each other which took me some time to do since the Multi Highlighter I used before and is no longer supported by Chrome, did not require that and you could put any word right in the highlighter extension and words did not need to be separated. Trust me, I tried so many highlighters and this one is a sure thing.

Peter Reinemann, 2024-08-09

Doesn't work. I'm just picking a colour, searching, typing a word, picking a colour, searching... nothing happens. it's rubbish.

Karen Lancaster, 2024-08-07

This looks pretty useful for checking content quickly for key words. Could use some documentation to explain what all the options are. I kept changing the colour of a word only to find it would change back until I changed the colour for the whole list. My only concern is what data - if any - is being sent to the developer or other sites? Since it can read everything on a page and the page could include confidential info, how safe is this plug-in?