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Productivity Highlighter & Annotation Tool for Websites & PDFs – free, easy to use, no sign-up required.
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Stay organized online with Web Highlights — a powerful Chrome extension to highlight text on websites, annotate PDFs, take notes, and manage bookmarks. Whether you're a student, blogger, developer, researcher, or lifelong learner, Web Highlights helps you stay productive, save, organize, and revisit what matters — all in one place.
Use it as your personal text highlighter for Chrome with smart note-taking, PDF annotation, tagging, and full-text search. Choose offline use or sync everything to the cloud via the web app.
⭐ TOP FEATURES ⭐
🟢 Highlight websites and PDFs (including local files)
🎨 Multiple highlighter colors
✍️ Take notes and connect them with your highlights
🔖 Save pages as bookmarks or use as a read-it-later web clipper tool
🏷️ Tag your highlights & bookmarks for easy filtering
🔄 Sync across devices and access highlights anywhere *
💻 Web app & sidebar with an overview of all your highlights, bookmarks, and notes
📖 Reader mode for focused and distraction-free article reading & annotating
🗂️ Import all your existing Chrome bookmarks
🔍 Powerful full-text search to find anything instantly
📷 Highlight images and visual elements *
𝐓 Highlight in various formats (headings, paragraphs, etc.) *
🧠 Daily recap of your highlights for better retention
⚡ Use keyboard shortcuts for ultimate productivity
📄 Export to Notion, Obsidian, Capacities, and other popular note-taking tools
📑 Copy to HTML and Markdown
📁 Export to PDF and HTML files *
📱 Bookmark on mobile with our web app *
⏰ Set email reminders for specific pages *
📚 Import Kindle highlights easily
💾 Backup and download your research *
🔗 Share your highlights *
👥 Discover content from others
* Premium/Ultimate features available during a 7-day free trial: See pricing: https://web-highlights.com/pricing
💡 WHY WEB HIGHLIGHTS?
✅ It just works – Highlight text in multiple colors on any website or PDF with a simple click.
✅ Persistent highlights - Your highlights stay visible even after reloading the page.
✅ Works offline – No account required for basic use.
✅ Sync across devices - Create an account to access your highlights anywhere from the web app.
✅ Reader Mode – Enjoy clean, distraction-free reading and keep a simple copy of articles.
✅ Integrate with Notion, Capacities, Obsidian, and other note-taking tools.
✅ Export your research — PDF, HTML, Markdown, or clipboard.
✅ Perfect for online deep work & and efficient research management.
✅ Help children learn - We proudly support the Save the Children charity and other great causes.
🔥 HOW IT WORKS 🔥
You can use Web Highlights completely free without an account. Highlight, bookmark, and take notes offline anytime.
Create a free account to enable cloud sync and unlock all features with a 7-day trial. Afterward, continue using the free offline version with basic features or upgrade for seamless access across all devices. Check out the current pricing here: https://web-highlights.com/pricing.
💡 PRO TIPS & GOOD TO KNOW 💡
➡️ Enable/disable the highlighter popup via the settings and highlight using keyboard shortcuts or by right-clicking text.
➡️ Customize keyboard shortcuts at chrome://extensions/shortcuts
➡️ Some websites may have limited compatibility.
➡️ Local PDF support requires access to file URLs (see PDF setup guide: https://web-highlights.com/blog/how-to-highlight-pdfs-using-web-highlights).
➡️ Right-click images to save them to your sidebar of highlights & notes.
➡️ Use as a web clipper – Click the bookmark icon or right-click any website to save pages and add tags like "ReadingList" for easy reference later.
➡️ Disable extension on specific websites: Click the power icon in the sidebar to disable the highlighter on a site. You can also configure a blacklisted domain list with patterns in the settings under "Excluded" domains.
➡️ Sort highlights manually: Highlights should appear in the same order as on the page. If not, use the drag & drop or arrows in your annotation sidebar to rearrange them as needed.
➡️ Customizable Sidebar: Change the sidebar width by dragging its edge, and align it on the left or right side of the page for a personalized experience.
➡️ Switch to Advanced Highlighter Mode in settings to organize highlights with headings, paragraphs, and more in the sidebar.
➡️ Multiple Colors: Choose from predefined standard and pastel shades or click the plus icon to add your own custom color.
➡️ Note Taking: Use standard keyboard shortcuts like CMD + B for bold, CMD + U for underline, etc., in the note-taking editor for efficient formatting.
➡️ Reader Mode: Click “Open in Reader” to view any article in a clean, distraction-free layout with customizable fonts, colors, and spacing. A copy of the article is saved so you can read and highlight it with full focus — even if the original changes or disappears.
➡️ Focus highlights on website: Click on a highlight in the sidebar, and the page will scroll directly to the highlighted section for quick access.
➡️ Color Mode: Switch between dark and light mode by clicking the sun/moon icon in the sidebar.
➡️ Your data is always private unless you choose to share it.
➡️ You may be exposed to affiliate links on sites you visit while using this extension, and you may be encouraged to click on them, but you are never required to do so.
🔐 YOUR PRIVACY MATTERS
We believe your data belongs to you.
✔️ Your highlights, notes, and bookmarks are private by default
✔️ Nothing is ever sold or used to profile you
✔️ Secure sync and export, only accessible with your account
We never use your data for advertising, lending, or unrelated purposes.
📜 TERMS OF SERVICE 📜
By installing the extension or signing up with an account, you agree to Web Highlights Terms of Service and Privacy Policy which you can find here: https://web-highlights.com/legal/terms-of-service
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❤️ This is a one-person project I’m building with love and late nights. I hope you enjoy using this tool as much as I do.
Feel free to share your feedback with me:
· Email: [email protected]
· LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/marius-bongarts-6b3638171
· Twitter/X: https://x.com/MariusBongarts
Latest reviews
- (2025-07-17) Super practical and works very well!
- (2025-07-17) Does not save your highlights!!! I tried downloading and printing multiple times and it would not show my highlights. Tried several different methods and no matter what, my highlights would not save when downloaded.
- (2025-07-16) I use this almost everyday, very convenient
- (2025-07-16) nicee
- (2025-07-15) convenient
- (2025-07-12) the fact that i am giving a break from my work, immediately after being kindly asked to give a review from web- highlights, shows the respect i have for the time, effort and consideration they have given to making my livelihood far less strenuous.
- (2025-07-12) Very easy to use, doesn't have a long sign in sequence, gets the job done nicely. It has a pretty good variety of colours too, and bookmarking websites and highlighted stuff is always great. Love it.
- (2025-07-11) Bro what u have created is insane and really useful. Thanks.
- (2025-07-11) So far so good, however it would be helpful if you could edit the highlighted note to remove any header/footer and page numbering that was collected with the highlighting.
- (2025-07-10) Absolutely great. I use only the free essentials, so I can't speak of the rest, but I'm 100% satisfied. No complaints.
- (2025-07-10) Very useful and easy to use!
- (2025-07-09) This is a great app. However, I deducted a star because - When highlighting PDFs, there's a green banner that pops up and says "Your PDF is ready! Enjoy highlighting." Sounds like not a big deal, right? Except it doesn't stop popping up and nothing you do, including clicking the X button on the banner, gets it to stop popping up. It renders the PDF mode too miserable to use. - There's several reviews that appear fake.
- (2025-07-09) Fantastic and it is very helpful for me to highlight important information
- (2025-07-09) this tool is very awesome and useful for me.
- (2025-07-08) genial
- (2025-07-08) Amazing for studying for the LSAT to highlight arguments etc. keeps me from having to print out everything.
- (2025-07-08) Very useful to me.
- (2025-07-07) I honestly wish I found this years ago, as it's a get down to business product of where organization meets efficiency.
- (2025-07-07) Great extension, in the 1 out of 5 cases where it works. (I'm rounding up.)
- (2025-07-06) I can use this easily for my study and its helpful for me since i start using it Thanks
- (2025-07-06) so useful and convenient.
- (2025-07-05) hope there will be a one time purchase for this extension not the monthly payment
- (2025-07-05) very useful tool for research
- (2025-07-04) So far so good!
- (2025-07-04) It works like a charm and the best tool I can rely to mark important notes. I would definitely recommend everyone to use it
- (2025-07-03) my fav extension alongside read aloud
- (2025-07-03) Absolutely love this extension!
- (2025-07-03) good extension, helps me study and focus
- (2025-07-03) good
- (2025-07-03) Nice
- (2025-07-02) Love this feature. Help me so much with my vocabulary learning <3
- (2025-07-02) it's good
- (2025-07-02) So convenient
- (2025-07-01) Incredible and easy to use
- (2025-07-01) IT IS WORKING AMAZING ON VARIOUS WEBSITES.HELPFULL DURING MY STUDIES.THANK YOU!!
- (2025-07-01) It's a excellent study tool. It's perfect for copying information and to put onto word. Like for Quotes for example. It organises copy words and makes study work easy. And it is easy to use. I just wished it worked on docs? But I may have missed something there, yet other then that it's wonderful. I do recommend it.
- (2025-06-30) amazing and useful for highlight text and saving it
- (2025-06-30) Best highlighting extension I have used so far. Recommend!
- (2025-06-29) OMG, never knew there was an extension for this! I love it, it's so convenient.
- (2025-06-27) A lifesaver for me as a student.
- (2025-06-27) Good job. Works every time!
- (2025-06-27) Very useful tool.
- (2025-06-27) Absolutely amazing app to study and spot important parts on a page! It makes the usage of printed lectures nedless as you can highlight everything right on the web page.
- (2025-06-26) Handy little tool that I'm using quite often!
- (2025-06-26) The feature you introduce is very helpful in doing my research.
- (2025-06-26) very good
- (2025-06-25) Awesome extension doing exactly what I need! Nice work
- (2025-06-25) A tiny app that does perfectly well what it's supposed to do, without any kind of annoying colateral result. Highly recommendable.
- (2025-06-24) Absolutely the best web highlighter I've been able to find anywhere. And I've been looking for a year or more. Does everything you wanted to do. Problem I've had with the others is that once you highlight a page if you reload it or close your browser and open your browser later all the highlights disappeared. One that came close to doing the job right most of the highlights would disappear upon a reload but some would remain so you didn't lose everything. But with this one it keeps everything. I can even open a web page in a different browser as long as I have this extension installed on it and my highlights show up in the other browsers too! I haven't even tried the more advanced features but they look very interesting. I'm just glad the basic functionality works that makes all the difference in the world to me.
- (2025-06-24) very helpful, easy to use, the UI is also good-looking.