Compare Chrome extensions: Highlight it vs Highlighter

Stats Highlight it Highlight it Highlighter Highlighter
User count 74,194+ 100,000+
Average rating 3.22 3.76
Rating count 51 249
Last updated 2020-11-07 2023-06-26
Size 156.67K 91.65K
Version 1.6.1 4.0.5
Short description
Annotate the Web with highlight tool Highlight text on websites with a simple right-click or keyboard shortcut. Saves highlights on your device.
Full summary

Highlight it - is a tool that allows you to annotate parts on any page with color backgrounds. Use one of 24 beautiful color presets.

How to use

  • You should refresh pages before usage if you just installed the extension
  • Highlight it won’t work on chrome internal pages, Chrome Webstore pages. (Restricted by security policy of Google Chrome)

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!

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