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: 3.69 (281) ▼ 1 ratings

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

Ranking

# 2227 ▼ 2

Other rankings

#3007 in Workflow & Planning

#1 in highlighter keyword 42

#180 in full page keyword 69 ▼ 12

#206 in right click keyword 64 ▼ 25

#271 in selection keyword 26 ▼ 38

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Extension 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

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 great for highlighting
Helpful for reading and reviewing articles
Allows reliable saving of highlights in some cases

Cons

Does not work for many users
Highlights often do not save after refreshing
Lacks a centralized location to access all previous highlights

Most mentioned

Not working or having issues with functionality
Frustration over highlights disappearing
Desire for more features or better usage options

Recent reviews

Excelente ferramenta para site na Web

Jornal WhatsApp, 2024-11-02

Der Highlighter funktioniert nicht mehr. Ich habe ihn von der Leiste als gepinnt kurz entfernt. Als ich ihn wieder angepinnt habe, ging gar nichts mehr.

D. Parker, 2024-10-26

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.