Web Highlights: PDF & Web Highlighter + Notes & AI Summary
Productivity Highlighter & Annotation Tool for Websites & PDFs with AI Summary - free, easy to use, no sign-up required.
Stay organized online with Web Highlights — a powerful Chrome extension to highlight text on websites, annotate PDFs, take notes, manage bookmarks, and generate AI summaries of your content. 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, full-text search, and AI-powered content summarization. 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
🤖 AI Summary - Generate smart summaries of your highlights and websites
🔖 Save pages as bookmarks or use as a read-it-later web clipper tool
🏷️ Tag your highlights & bookmarks for easy filtering
🎥 Youtube Highlighting - Highlight & annotate Youtube video transcripts
🔄 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.
✅ Unlimited AI summaries – Unlike other tools, we don’t place any limits on AI features.
✅ 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
Very useful feature!
Hello, Web Highlighter is a unique and simple-to-use tool, & I consider it as the best tool among web highlighters. However, I am facing some issues: The highlighter is not highlighting the selected text, in spite of refreshing the sites and closing-opening Google Chrome a number of times. This of course is causing frustration at the user end. I desperately want this Highlighter tool to work. I hope to find an easy and reliable solution to this problem. Thanks a lot
best tool for researchers and students (and just anyone who loves to read online)
Super great tool for college students or anyone dealing with lots of PDF readings at one time. You're able to highlight just about any website/PDF file, when you make an account your highlights save, and there's lots of fun colors. :)
It will constantly show givefreely popup and there is no way to remove it.
It is simple and useful it makes document also beautiful
Love the extention, has made my life easier. To note important stuff online.
very good product . my work is done very effitientlly
this helps me out so much, i also love that we can choose so many different colors, and that it keeps all of my highlights stored like sticky notes!
Amazing tool for saving my highlights.
Perfect extension! I've been using it for months and love the feature to view your history of highlighted text, super helpful for researching.
I love it !!!!!❤️🌼💯It really nice to highlighter something 𓂃🖌
This is such a useful tool. Thank you!
very easy to use!!! love it
Very helpful, I recommend this extension to all my friends.
I'm a highschool student and I really find this app helpful, especially the part where I don't need to download pdfs in order to highlight stuff. This really made my life easier!
very good
I really like this highlighting extension!!! it's super helpful for my research project right now and what I love most is being able to make a note of something I highlighted. There are some websites that get finicky when you try and highlight it but i'm not sure if that's the website, the highlighting extension or my devices....
Works super well as showed. Nothing to complain. Just a great tool for everyday productivity task. I am not a bot if you're looking for real human validation. Trust me bro.
great for highlighting articles
The extension is not very good because every few seconds the screen goes black and you have to refresh the page to see the highlights and edits that you've made. Same thing happens when I switch tabs only to come back to a black screen and needing to refresh again. When you download the pdf, it doesn't show the highlights--I believe you need to pay money to access that feature which is stupid.
good reliable
Love this extension! So glad I found it. Easy to use, convenient, and I use it daily! Super helpful
Helps a lot :)
i love how practical is for me to reach to the highlighted links and notes,the colors and display of the program, best extension i have added so far!
Real convenient! I love that there's an option to customize your own color and especially that you can add notes to the highlights.
very helpful tool, especially when doing research for an assignment from using different sites
It is such a very helpful tool, especially in studies. When you are taking notes or learning something from any website, by enabling this useful extension, you just select any text from any website, and automatically a small bar appears with highlighting with a lot of color, such as pastel one ,add text, or any bookmark feature.
Loved it, exactly what I was looking for. ❤️
I am using for couple days, and I like it. Thank you.
I’ve used apps with similar features before, but Web Highlights really blew me away! Its integration with browsers is so seamless and smooth, and it’s super easy to use too. My favorite part? It lets me sync the web highlights across different devices—something I never got to experience with other tools. Honestly, I haven’t even tried most of Web Highlights’ features yet, but I already love it so much. Can’t wait to explore more of it in the future!
I like this. Very simple to use-pops up just when I need it. Haven't explored all uses yet-at the moment using it to remember high lights of text. Thank-you for your creation.
I love this! It helps me a lot
as a pre med student this app is a SAVIORRRR
This is very useful!! I use the highlighter tool to screen through different job positions (at a job search phase) and every time I look back to a posting I can quickly spot the main difference of similar positions that I am applying for from my highlights. There are different highlighter colours, too. This small step increases my work efficiency!
It's sucha saviour!
Absolutely Great
It works really good, amazing extension.
Incredible to have a free product that is WORTH IT !! I feel pampered. From tags to making notes under my highlights, and the COLOURS, it's all tied in neatly. What's even more is that sometimes websites clear out the highlights but I can always retrieve the exact texts I highlighted in the Web Highlights sidebar. Insanely helpful - I've been using it for three years now, never disappointed me since.
best app to annotate when doing research for an assignment
So happy with it. 9 15 2025 Monday. Perfect for online reading with no much of meaningless tools. simple, quick and practical. all you need in one. won't suggest other tool.
i compares almost every tool in this category this is the best dont go anywhere else
Very useful and flexible
It's good to use for me, at least for now. Hope we could get more free space~ Anyway, I will recommend this.
Thank you for making it free and also EASY to use! especially LOVE that the highlights stay visible on the page! I appreciate you! May Allah bless you and your whole team!
loveit!
Easy to use. Not in the way on the browser but easy to pull up when I need it.
So far, so good. The only thing I will note is that it is slow. Whether that's the Chrome browser (doubtful) or the app (likely) I can't be sure. It takes about a full second to load the highlights and notes when I switch to each page. When you are rapidly cycling through pages and quickly highlighting, that seems like an eternity, oddly enough.
Extremely amazing tool!!!
good
