Highlighter

Highlight text on websites with a simple right-click or keyboard shortcut. Saves highlights on your device.

What is Highlighter?

'Highlighter' is a Chrome extension designed to easily highlight text on various webpages. With the capability to save the highlighted texts, it lets users refer back to them upon revisiting the website. Additionally, it offers customization options for highlight and text colors. It supports a keyboard shortcut for effortless use. Keep in mind, dynamically changing webpages may not support these features.

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By: Jérôme Parent-Lévesque

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Users: 100,000+

Rating: 3.75 (247)

Version: 4.0.5 (Last updated: 2023-06-26)

Creation date: 2019-10-27

Risk impact: Moderate risk impact

Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Permissions:

contextMenus
scripting
storage

Host permissions:

<all_urls>

Size: 91.65K

Email: je*****@hotmail.ca

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Chrome-Stats Rank

# 1958 ▼ 7

Other rankings

#2451 in Workflow & Planning ▲ 4

#1 in highlighter keyword 48

#179 in right click keyword 64 ▲ 8

#180 in start page keyword 46

#234 in change color keyword 14 ▼ 2

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Summary

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Easiest way to highlight text on any webpage! Simply select text, then right click it to select the "Highlight" option. Alternatively, use the default keyboard shortcut 'Alt+H' (^H on Mac).

All highlighted texts are saved so that your highlights are not lost when exiting a page! Simply re-opening that page will bring back all the highlights. NOTE: This does not work on very dynamic webpages like Facebook and most email clients. Support for these might be added in the future.

➪ View and copy all highlights on a page ➪ Copy all your highlights to your clipboard easily. ➪ Select existing highlights with a simple click to either delete them or to copy their content. ➪ Customize your highlight colors (and text color). ➪ Change the keyboard shortcut through Chrome settings at 'chrome://extensions/shortcuts'.

The code for this project is fully open-source and is available on GitHub: https://github.com/jeromepl/highlighter Help this project by reporting issues and contributing there!

User reviews

User reviews summary

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

Works on some websites
Easy to use
Allows for highlighting directly on a website

Cons

Does not work on all websites
Highlights are not always saved or remembered
Does not work for PDFs

Most mentioned

Does not work
Easy to use
Highlights not saved

Recent reviews

"That Girl" is my hero this morning! Thanks for easy tip on how to make this awesome extension work.

Kim Alderman, 2024-04-04

I did not clear cache But some of my website Highlighting markings are missing...

vignesh NGWS66, 2024-04-03

Does not work for me. Even Highlighting is barely possible but only if you deactivate all other script blocking plugins. And there is no option to copy/transfer the text into a external markdown app. Standard copy paste does not include the highlights. Sorry for that bad review - maybe i am only a layer 8 problem :-)

tom deu, 2024-04-03

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Safety

Risk impact

Highlighter may not be safe to use and it requires some risky permissions. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing.