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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
- (2025-08-29) 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
- (2025-08-23) Great extension
- (2025-08-23) useful
- (2025-08-23) This extension is spamming users. I kept getting this huge "Your Purchase Can Make a Difference" popup that asks for donations to some charities that I do not know when I'm browsing online shopping websites. At first I thought it was a non-profit organization that convinced these companies to add this popup. Today I finally had it enough, so I went into developer tools to remove this popup. To my surprise, I discovered that the popup's html element has an attribute: `data-extension-name="Web Highlights: PDF & Web Highlighter + Notes & Annotations"`. So...It's a spam from this web highlighting extension..? I'd rather you just pop up a new web page like Ad Blocker than adding a huge pop-up that hides half of the webpage to force people to donate. Spamming is just wrong and you are violating users' consents. Update: confirmed the annoying popup is from this extension, because when I removed this extension, the popup finally disappeared.
- (2025-08-22) Amazing tool! Still use it after some years. Also, reaaally good colors :) loved it
- (2025-08-22) amazing, i am making the best out of the free trial given it'd be the best if completely free!! anyways, deeply grateful for this thing!!
- (2025-08-22) sometime when i highlight, this colour will move to the different place, but it is not far from the initial so this problem can be accepted
- (2025-08-21) works good enough for me. highlighting pdf's a lil difficult tho. recommend microsoft edge for that. thanks for this.
- (2025-08-21) Very useful extension.
- (2025-08-20) Hands down ;one of the best online tools for researchers and students!!! Truly appreciate your effort, will make dua'a (prayer) for the developer 💕
- (2025-08-20) nc web br
- (2025-08-20) very useful extension
- (2025-08-19) good to use
- (2025-08-19) Must have
- (2025-08-19) This is my first time using a web highlighter, and this tool is by far my favorite. It’s incredibly convenient and very easy to use.
- (2025-08-18) good app man use it for research papers and website articles, recommended
- (2025-08-18) an amazing extension!! highly recommend
- (2025-08-17) I use this to highlight important information for the cases I read for law school, and I love how reliable it is. The features of the highlighter having different colors and the highlights syncing even if I already left the website are gamechangers! Thank you for this :))
- (2025-08-17) This extension has saved me a TON of time. Usually I would copy and paste or screen important info to my notes but sometimes it's not as useful since it's away from the original context. Then, I would end up copying over even more info from the webpage which basically made my notes 1:1 copies of the webpage (my ADHD was not a fan of this). But, now I can just revisit the website and get straight to the important parts. My notes are a lot cleaner because of it!
- (2025-08-17) This web highlighter is very efficient and easy to use.
- (2025-08-16) convenient
- (2025-08-15) amazing
- (2025-08-15) bro, Why can't I highlight on some web pages? I have been reading https://math.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Linear_Algebra/A_First_Course_in_Linear_Algebra_(Kuttler)/05%3A_Linear_Transformations/5.01%3A_Linear_Transformations and couldn't highlight anything :(
- (2025-08-15) Very useful tool
- (2025-08-14) Amazing tool for all students! I use this one over others as it works properly without bugs.
- (2025-08-14) Great extension!!!
- (2025-08-13) I have found this feature has continuously improved and proven to be reliable.
- (2025-08-13) good
- (2025-08-13) amazing tool. just wao!
- (2025-08-13) I think it's one of the best in the sense of combining interface design, user account and sync options. Nonetheless, I have encountered some problems. I am needing it mainly for Wikipedia. While trying to mark some pages, in most cases it's fine, but in some cases it wouldn't show the coloured background. You can see the marked page and element in the account, but when reloading the Wikipedia page the background appears just for in a split of a second and then disappears (sometimes not even that). If you try to mark it again, it would duplicate the same instance in the account, as many times as you try (so you have the same marked elements duplícate in your account), but the result on the WP page is the same. In these paging, when opening the side bar, it reloads again and again as if it was stuck in a loop (and I think you can't see a list of the tagged elements, just the recently opened). Maybe it's due to the fact I have another highlighter installed (simpler one, with lesser functionality and no sync account, but it always works). It's a shame, real nice app, thanks for your work!
- (2025-08-12) Super thanks for making it. It helps me for my exams.
- (2025-08-12) Very useful extension for highlighting text across the web.
- (2025-08-12) good app, easy used for users
- (2025-08-11) Simple and easy, it's just what I needed, a way to easily highlight text on websites
- (2025-08-10) This app is very useful for me when reading stories I really like it!
- (2025-08-08) SO reliable and keeps my highlighted notes
- (2025-08-08) cool
- (2025-08-08) Really helpful for students
- (2025-08-07) super easy to use, a perfect extension for highlighting and taking notes on websites