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Productivity Highlighter & Annotation Tool for Websites & PDFs with AI Summary - free, easy to use, no sign-up required.
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Stay organized online with Web Highlights β 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 β 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.
β TOP FEATURES β
π’ Highlight websites and PDFs (including local files)
π¨ Multiple highlighter colors
βοΈ Take notes and connect them with your highlights
π€ AI Summary - Generate smart summaries of your highlights and websites
π Save pages as bookmarks or use as a read-it-later web clipper tool
π·οΈ Tag your highlights & bookmarks for easy filtering
π Sync across devices and access highlights anywhere *
π» Web app & sidebar with an overview of all your highlights, bookmarks, and notes
π Reader mode for focused and distraction-free article reading & annotating
ποΈ Import all your existing Chrome bookmarks
π Powerful full-text search to find anything instantly
π· Highlight images and visual elements *
π Highlight in various formats (headings, paragraphs, etc.) *
π§ Daily recap of your highlights for better retention
β‘ Use keyboard shortcuts for ultimate productivity
π Export to Notion, Obsidian, Capacities, and other popular note-taking tools
π Copy to HTML and Markdown
π Export to PDF and HTML files *
π± Bookmark on mobile with our web app *
β° Set email reminders for specific pages *
π Import Kindle highlights easily
πΎ Backup and download your research *
π Share your highlights *
π₯ Discover content from others
* Premium/Ultimate features available during a 7-day free trial: See pricing: https://web-highlights.com/pricing
π‘ WHY WEB HIGHLIGHTS?
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It just works β Highlight text in multiple colors on any website or PDF with a simple click.
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Persistent highlights - Your highlights stay visible even after reloading the page.
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Works offline β No account required for basic use.
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Sync across devices - Create an account to access your highlights anywhere from the web app.
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Unlimited AI summaries β Unlike other tools, we donβt place any limits on AI features.
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Reader Mode β Enjoy clean, distraction-free reading and keep a simple copy of articles.
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Integrate with Notion, Capacities, Obsidian, and other note-taking tools.
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Export your research β PDF, HTML, Markdown, or clipboard.
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Perfect for online deep work & and efficient research management.
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Help children learn - We proudly support the Save the Children charity and other great causes.
π₯ HOW IT WORKS π₯
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.
π‘ PRO TIPS & GOOD TO KNOW π‘
β‘οΈ Enable/disable the highlighter popup via the settings and highlight using keyboard shortcuts or by right-clicking text.
β‘οΈ Customize keyboard shortcuts at chrome://extensions/shortcuts
β‘οΈ Some websites may have limited compatibility.
β‘οΈ Local PDF support requires access to file URLs (see PDF setup guide: https://web-highlights.com/blog/how-to-highlight-pdfs-using-web-highlights).
β‘οΈ Right-click images to save them to your sidebar of highlights & notes.
β‘οΈ Use as a web clipper β Click the bookmark icon or right-click any website to save pages and add tags like "ReadingList" for easy reference later.
β‘οΈ 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.
β‘οΈ 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.
β‘οΈ 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.
β‘οΈ Switch to Advanced Highlighter Mode in settings to organize highlights with headings, paragraphs, and more in the sidebar.
β‘οΈ Multiple Colors: Choose from predefined standard and pastel shades or click the plus icon to add your own custom color.
β‘οΈ Note Taking: Use standard keyboard shortcuts like CMD + B for bold, CMD + U for underline, etc., in the note-taking editor for efficient formatting.
β‘οΈ Reader Mode: Click βOpen in Readerβ 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 β even if the original changes or disappears.
β‘οΈ Focus highlights on website: Click on a highlight in the sidebar, and the page will scroll directly to the highlighted section for quick access.
β‘οΈ Color Mode: Switch between dark and light mode by clicking the sun/moon icon in the sidebar.
β‘οΈ Your data is always private unless you choose to share it.
β‘οΈ 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.
π YOUR PRIVACY MATTERS
We believe your data belongs to you.
βοΈ Your highlights, notes, and bookmarks are private by default
βοΈ Nothing is ever sold or used to profile you
βοΈ Secure sync and export, only accessible with your account
We never use your data for advertising, lending, or unrelated purposes.
π TERMS OF SERVICE π
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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β€οΈ This is a one-person project Iβm 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:
Β· Email: [email protected]
Β· LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/marius-bongarts-6b3638171
Β· Twitter/X: https://x.com/MariusBongarts
Latest reviews
- (2025-09-14) It's good to use for me, at least for now. Hope we could get more free space~ Anyway, I will recommend this.
- (2025-09-12) 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!
- (2025-09-12) loveit!
- (2025-09-11) Easy to use. Not in the way on the browser but easy to pull up when I need it.
- (2025-09-11) 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.
- (2025-09-11) Extremely amazing tool!!!
- (2025-09-11) good
- (2025-09-11) Fantastic app. I am a researcher at heart and read voraciously. The Chrome extension allows me to highlight any part of any page. Or I can highlight just the title for use as a bookmarking system. The search feature in the online app allows me to find my highlights and bring up the page again. Best app of its kind.
- (2025-09-10) As a law student, this extension has been a huge help. I often read cases online, and with Web Highlight, I no longer need to download the full text just to add my notes and highlights. It saves me both time and storage space. Truly a very useful tool!
- (2025-09-08) This web extension has been extraordinarily helpful to me both in Academia and in my personal life. Although it doesn't work everywhere, more often than not that's merely the fault of the website I'm trying to highlight.
- (2025-09-08) perfect for highlighting my online college textbook. and it's free! thank you!
- (2025-09-08) excelent! easy and effective. Thanks.
- (2025-09-07) AMAZING! THANKS!
- (2025-09-07) nice extension
- (2025-09-07) 100% recommended!
- (2025-09-06) Very useful and helpful! Love this tool very much
- (2025-09-05) Good. but it would be great if the commented highlight was presented in a unique way so that it can be easily recognized.
- (2025-09-05) easy to use, great functionality
- (2025-09-04) Excellent. Very helpful.
- (2025-09-04) Been using this just a few days ago but I'm already satisfied with the utility; makes reading cases easier.
- (2025-09-04) Fantastic extension. Finally being able to highlight important words and sentences is very useful. The fact that the highlights remain even after a system restart is absolutely fantastic. I haven't tested all the features yet, but it looks very promising.
- (2025-09-04) AMAZING!!!
- (2025-09-03) Ultra useful app even the free version, highly recommend it for students who are working on internet ressources without the possibility to download it
- (2025-09-03) Just wow! especially when you solve question in web like Leetcode.
- (2025-09-02) very helpfull. Really appreciate it friend.
- (2025-09-02) So far so good, but for some reason it doesn't work properly on Wikibooks. It either doesn't show the highlight (but still registers them), or it shows for half a second and then disappears
- (2025-09-02) love this app
- (2025-09-02) This is an excellent tool, It helps me in my studies. I am happy and grateful for it.
- (2025-09-01) it good for me to highlight things for my education and essays and if it combines with grammerly its broken i mean powerful
- (2025-09-01) love it!!!
- (2025-09-01) The best web highlighter i've used. Super lightweight.
- (2025-08-31) absolute cinema
- (2025-08-31) This is the best extension, I use it every day for highlighting important words, so I don't miss them.
- (2025-08-31) so nice!
- (2025-08-31) This highlighter is great help in my study ^^ the highlighter app summarize key notes from my readings immediately giving me more time to digest it more
- (2025-08-30) Super useful
- (2025-08-30) Must Try
- (2025-08-30) Really needed this. One stop solution. Thanks a lot
- (2025-08-29) Really useful, easy to use and literally free
- (2025-08-28) Excellent.
- (2025-08-28) really great not limited like other study tools like grammarly or quizlet
- (2025-08-28) Does exactly what it's meant to do. Very simple and easy to work with.
- (2025-08-27) INSANE! Just insanely good! I can not be without anymore! Ty sososo much for it. <3
- (2025-08-27) THANKS FOR THIS. I REALLY NEED TO HIGHLIGHT PDF FILE I'M VERY NERVOUS BUT WHEN I USE THIS SOURCE I'M VERY COMFORTABLE .
- (2025-08-27) Really enjoying the app so far, no issues and runs so cleanly
- (2025-08-25) Very easy to use. Works with a lot of sites.
- (2025-08-24) great extension, if they add a shortcut for highlighting with mouse in a toggle mode, it would be better!
- (2025-08-24) My thanks to the people who made this convenient app.
- (2025-08-23) Yeah really great. It works and well designed. I wish I could highlight by keyword or across websites, instead of having to select text. Also wish it worked with labels because you can't select labels.
- (2025-08-23) student tool!!! minus use on pdfs :c