Web Highlights - PDF & Web Highlighter
Productivity Highlighter for any Website or PDF. Free and easy to use without signing up.
- Users:
- 100,000+
- Rating:
- 4.83 (3,400) 24 new ratings
- Version:
- 11.0.6 (Last updated: 2025-04-13)
- Creation date:
- 2020-02-02
- Permissions:
- tabs
- contextMenus
- storage
- webRequest
- Host permissions:
- <all_urls>
- Size:
- 5.18M
- Email:
- ha*****@marius-bongarts.de
- URLs:
- Website ,Privacy policy
- Full description:
- See detailed description
- Source:
- Chrome Web Store
- Updated:
- 16 hours ago
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User reviews
Users praise 'Web Highlights - PDF & Web Highlighter' for its ease of use, multi-color highlighting, and helpfulness in organizing notes, especially useful for students and researchers. Many commend its free version and integration with tools like Notion. However, some report bugs with highlight sequence and difficulties viewing saved highlights within documents. There are also issues with the extension not working on certain sites and lacking features for local PDF highlighting. Overall, it is considered a valuable productivity tool despite minor limitations.
Pros
- Helps organize and revisit highlights and notes efficiently.
- Easy to use with straightforward installation process.
- Supports multiple colors for highlighting, enhancing visual organization.
- Integrates well with workflows, including Notion, aiding productivity.
- Free version is functional and valuable for students and researchers.
Cons
- Occasional bugs with highlight order not matching user selection or webpage structure.
- Saving and viewing highlights within documents can be complicated, with highlights sometimes only visible in the extension's sidebar.
- Has issues functioning properly on some websites, causing frustration for users.
- Limited support for highlighting PDFs saved locally on computers.
Recent reviews
От души, братишка
by 
VaSabi, 2025-04-22
VaSabi, 2025-04-22Marius, you are a hero. I have been looking for something like this for ages! Simple, clean, functional, small - exactly what it need to be. Vielen Dank!
by 
Nadya U, 2025-04-22
Nadya U, 2025-04-22Very good to use. Use it when reading academic journals for school and papers. Like the different colors and modifications. Doesnt work on all pages but useful for the ones it does work on
by 
Daisy, 2025-04-22
Daisy, 2025-04-22Extension safety
Risk impact
Web Highlights - PDF & Web Highlighter requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.
Risk impact analysis details
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Web Highlights - PDF & Web Highlighter has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.
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