Web Highlights: PDF & Web Highlighter + Notes & AI Summary icon

Web Highlights: PDF & Web Highlighter + Notes & AI Summary

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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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Web Highlights: PDF & Web Highlighter + Notes & AI Summary
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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
💬 AI Chat - Our AI understands the full context of the website, so you can chat with it and ask questions.
🔖 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

Anonymous
works amazingly!! love the tagging system
Anonymous
Constant spam and harassment with messages to review, subscribe to premium or sign up for other stuff.
Anonymous
It has helped a lot in my official and personal life . Thank you so much for giving us such an amazing tool.
Anonymous
I cannot live my internet browsing life without it!!
Anonymous
Try and let it speak for itself
Anonymous
has helped me to study so much over the years. It's super simple to use too! I always come back to marius's highlighter! thank you for helping students :]
Anonymous
one of the best extensions to use while studying and making notes at the same time. easy to navigate as welll.
Anonymous
Very helpful and easy to use.
Anonymous
works well on all websites helps a lot with research, job application and much more
Anonymous
rất tiện lợi và dễ sử dụng! tui rất thích công cụ đánh dấu này. this tool is so useful. as a student, I need something to mark, organize and help me with note-taking; and Web Highlights seems to be able to do that, which is amazing ( i prefer using highlighter over using other features, though ) i just cannot use it sometimes. i don't know if there is any error or the website itself doesnt't allow this tool? because it happened quite often to me. overall 5 stars:)
Anonymous
I use Web Highlights for work mostly, helping me keep track of important lines in documents and even add notes and more to each highlighted section! Used it so much for work, I find myself using it in my personal daily studies as well! Great web extension, I highly recommend!
Anonymous
good
Anonymous
Thank you very much for providing such a great tool. I hope to provide a fully functional native app on Android (although it is already available now)
Anonymous
I use this extension almost everyday to study and highlight researches! Love it, 10/10
Anonymous
Really good app - I use it every day.
Anonymous
Nice colours to chose from and easily highlight off of most websites. IT gets glitchy at times but overall pretty nice!
Anonymous
Writing essays personally and academically has literally never been easier. It is so easy to go through the same articles multiple times and review or reference the things that stuck out instead of printing them out or wasting time trying to find the relevant talking point.
Anonymous
simply amazing .
Anonymous
Really good, web highliter
Anonymous
Love the app Highlights at times not working Love the mark down feature to summarize Would love to see a dedicated app for android
Anonymous
Simple but so impactful. Thank you for making this.
Anonymous
unexpected donation pop up
Anonymous
this has helped me out so muchhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh in my days i recommend this
Anonymous
Way greater compared to other web highlighters I used in the past. No kidding. Why? Because, I can easily surf through passages without having to right click all the time and sometimes, in my case, it dissappears. As a student, who does a lot of reading here and there on websites and articles, I find this tool to be SUPER helpful.
Anonymous
Thanks!!! so much!!
Anonymous
This extension really helps when I'm doing research for my uni assignments!! I feel like I go crazy reading through articles and copying down whats important. It's so much easier to highlight and see the highlights listed, thanks for making this!
Anonymous
This web good. But it will better, if it entirely free. I really love this web
Anonymous
so good so far
Anonymous
It‘s really good to use, but if I could use it on a pdf file opened by the broswer would be much better
Anonymous
very useful, can highlight anything for my viewing pleasure :3
Anonymous
I have a problem — I’d like to filter my highlights by color (for example, red and so on). Could you please add that feature? Thank you for the great app!
Anonymous
Fabulous app. Super easy to use and highly flexible and adaptable. I've tried about a half dozen highlighters. This is now my go to!
Anonymous
Very useful feature!
Anonymous
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
Anonymous
best tool for researchers and students (and just anyone who loves to read online)
Anonymous
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. :)
Anonymous
It will constantly show givefreely popup and there is no way to remove it.
Anonymous
It is simple and useful it makes document also beautiful
Anonymous
Love the extention, has made my life easier. To note important stuff online.
Anonymous
very good product . my work is done very effitientlly
Anonymous
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!
Anonymous
Amazing tool for saving my highlights.
Anonymous
Perfect extension! I've been using it for months and love the feature to view your history of highlighted text, super helpful for researching.
Anonymous
I love it !!!!!❤️🌼💯It really nice to highlighter something 𓂃🖌
Anonymous
This is such a useful tool. Thank you!
Anonymous
very easy to use!!! love it
Anonymous
Very helpful, I recommend this extension to all my friends.
Anonymous
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!
Anonymous
very good
Anonymous
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....