Web Highlights: PDF & Web Highlighter + Notes & Annotations

Name: Web Highlights: PDF & Web Highlighter + Notes & Annotations
Rating: 4.824849007765315 (3477 reviews)
Author: https://https://web-highlights.com/

Productivity Highlighter & Annotation Tool for Websites & PDFs – free, easy to use, no sign-up required.

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Web Highlights is a versatile Chrome extension designed to boost your productivity by allowing you to highlight text on websites and PDFs, annotate documents, take notes, and manage bookmarks seamlessly. It supports multiple highlighter colors, smart note-taking connected to your highlights, tagging for efficient filtering, and powerful full-text search to quickly find your saved content.

Perfect for students, researchers, bloggers, and lifelong learners, Web Highlights operates offline with no account needed for basic use, while offering cloud sync across devices via a web app with a free 7-day trial for premium features. Additional capabilities include a distraction-free Reader Mode, export options to Notion, Obsidian, PDF, HTML, Markdown, and integration of Kindle highlights. The extension prioritizes privacy by keeping data private by default and never using it for ads or profiling. Explore enhanced research management, content sharing, and custom organizational tools with this all-in-one annotation and highlighting tool.

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By:

https://https://web-highlights.com/

Users:

100,000+

Rating:

4.82

(3,477) 4 new ratings

Version:

11.1.5 Last updated: 2025-05-23

Creation date:

2020-02-02

Risk:

Permissions:

tabs
contextMenus
storage
webRequest

Host permissions:

<all_urls>

Size:

5.25M

Email:

ha*****@marius-bongarts.de

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Chrome Web Store

Updated:

a day ago

Ranking

# 1,638 ▼ 20

Other rankings

#148 in Workflow & Planning ▲ 4

#6 in highlighter keyword 52 ▼ 1

#7 in web keyword 74 ▲ 3

#8 in works offline keyword 23 ▼ 2

#15 in trial keyword 15

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Web Highlights: PDF & Web Highlighter + Notes (v11.1.5)

721 5.00

(16)

Web Highlights: PDF & Web Highlighter + Note-Taking (v11.1.1)

10,371+ 4.70

(54)

User reviews

Users appreciate Web Highlights for its ease of use, useful features like multiple highlight colors and note-taking, and its assistance in research and study. It is valued for reliability and cross-device syncing. However, several users report that highlights can be lost after reloading or closing tabs, and there is a desire for better saving or organizational features such as bookmarks or collections. Some also mention difficulty highlighting complex content like math equations and initial usability quirks.

Pros

Easy to use with a user-friendly interface
Helpful for students and researchers to highlight and annotate important information
Supports multiple colors and note-taking features enhancing the reading and research process
Cross-device sync of highlights and tags between Chrome and Edge
Reliable and free with good customer support

Cons

Highlights and annotations can be lost upon reloading or closing tabs
Lack of features to save highlights externally such as bookmarks or collections
Issues with highlighting complex content like math equations on some pages
Some initial setup or use challenges reported by new users (e.g., extension showing 'OFF' icon)

Recent reviews

This is so useful, glad i found this

vhaaz, 2025-05-24

Very nice extension! Helps me study!

Amaya Langdon, 2025-05-24

good but i think sometime it appears some bug that may cause struggle in my study so i hope the producers to improve this so that everyone can have an exciting experience on it. Thanks!

Anhh Nguyênn, 2025-05-24

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Extension safety

Risk impact

Web Highlights: PDF & Web Highlighter + Notes & Annotations requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details

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Risk likelihood

Web Highlights: PDF & Web Highlighter + Notes & Annotations has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

Risk likelihood analysis details

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