Web Highlights: PDF & Web Highlighter + Notes

Name: Web Highlights: PDF & Web Highlighter + Notes
Rating: 5 (18 reviews)
Author: Marius Bongarts

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

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Web Highlights: PDF & Web Highlighter + Notes is a versatile Firefox extension designed to enhance your online productivity by allowing you to highlight text on websites and PDFs, annotate documents, take detailed notes, and manage bookmarks efficiently. Ideal for students, researchers, bloggers, and lifelong learners, it combines offline and cloud-sync features to ensure your data is accessible and organized wherever you are.

With multiple highlighter colors, note-taking linked to highlights, tag-based organization, advanced full-text search, keyboard shortcuts, and the ability to export data to popular tools like Notion and Obsidian, Web Highlights empowers you to save and revisit what matters most. It supports PDF annotation (including local files), image highlight saving, and the ability to use it as a web clipper or read-it-later tool. Prioritizing user privacy, your data remains private unless you choose to share it, with secure cloud syncing available through an optional account. This extension is perfect for deep work and efficient research management, all wrapped in a user-friendly, customizable interface.

Discover key features such as offline use, daily recaps for retention, integration with note-taking platforms, customizable sidebar, and dark/light mode. Whether you want to study more effectively, conduct thorough research, or simply stay organized, Web Highlights is your all-in-one solution for highlighting and annotating digital content.

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Daily users:

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Version:

11.1.10 Last updated: 2025-06-22

Version code:

5973788

Creation date:

2025-01-26

Risk:

Permissions:

tabs
contextMenus
storage
webRequest
declarativeNetRequest

Host permissions:

<all_urls>

Size:

5.21MB

Email:

ma*****@web-highlights.com

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Firefox Browser Add-ons

Updated:

19 hours ago

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Web Highlights: PDF & Web Highlighter + Notes & Annotations (v11.1.9)

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User reviews

Users praise Web Highlights for its simplicity, powerful annotation features, seamless syncing across devices, and helpful color-coding for organizing research and study notes. It is valued for enhancing academic reading and everyday information retention. No common issues are reported repeatedly, indicating a generally positive user experience.

Pros

Easy to use with a user-friendly interface
Powerful and efficient for highlighting and annotating web pages and PDFs
Excellent syncing capabilities between devices including laptop and mobile
Supports color-coding and organization of notes for academic and research work
Free with great functionality, with optional premium features for syncing

Cons

Recent reviews

it's great, it works as I expected it to and how I want it to. The only issue is when taking notes if I press the `s` button it toggles the web-highlighter menu on/off. Thus I'm unable to use `s` when taking notes on it.

by Fi*****, 2025-06-24

by Ad*****, 2025-06-14

Simple yet powerful. Web Highlights helps me organize my notes effortlessly. Highly recommend!

by pe*****, 2025-04-28

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

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Web Highlights: PDF & Web Highlighter + Notes is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this add-on.

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