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Automatically finds and highlights words and phrases on the web page according to your list
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- No registration required
- Organize your search words in groups and lists
- Use Regular Expressions (Regex tokens)
- All data stored locally
- Auto-refreshes highlights on page reload and content changes
- Unlimited words and lists
- Synchronise lists between your browsers
Highlight This! comes:
- as a Free version, limited to 200 words and limited highlighting styles
- an Unlimited version with affiliate partner link highlighting https://highlightthis.net/PartnerLinks.html
- 2 paid versions.
Easy to use Chrome Extension that automatically searches for defined words in the current browser tab and marks them in a text. Many more advanced features available through settings:
- Create color-coded keyword lists
- Disable highlighting on certain sites
- Export or import your settings and keyword lists
- Define click action
- Use lists from Pastebin, Google Sheets
Privacy Statement: https://highlightthis.net/Privacy.html
EULA: https://highlightthis.net/EULA.pdf
** New in 6.3.10
- Fix: Issue with lookbehind regex
** New in 6.3.8
- Fix: Issue when extending license information
** New in 6.3.8
- Fix: Minor fix in detecting words after, or before, a forward-slash
** New in 6.3.7
- Fix: Minor fix in detecting words after lower quotation marks
- Fix: Incorrect highlighting with Regular Expressions that contain \b
** New in 6.3.6
- Fix: lists are not sorted anymore
- Fix: breaking highlights due to specific control for "flex" containers
** New in 6.3.4
- Fix: an issue with sequence of Regex words
- Fix: an issue with invalid characters in a wordlist
- New: You can now order lists of words to give priority in highlighting if there are duplicate words
** New in 6.3.3
- Fix: Complete words are not always correctly highlighted
** New in 6.3.2
- Improved: Word breaking symbols list has been extended
** New in 6.3.1
- Fix: zip file issue when installing extension
** New in 6.3
- New: Better support for languages which have no spaces or punctuation between words
- New: Better support for languages with diacritics
- Fixed: Sync with Google Sheets has been fixed
** New in 6.2.3
- New: You can now put a border around input fields if there is a matching word inside
** New in 6.2.2
- Fixed: a performance issue
** New in 6.2.1
- Fixed: an issue with highlighting in shadow-root elements
** New in 6.2
- New : Improved performance on large webpages
- Fixed: an issue whereby words could disappear while filtering the list of words
** New in 6.1
- New: Make backups automatically
- New: Open clicks on highights in new window or current tab
** New in 6.0.10
- Fixed: an issue with highlighting of web components
- Fixed: an issue with look behind regular expressions
** New in 6.0.9
- New: Now also highlighting in Shadow DOM
** New in 6.0.8
- Fixed: an issue whereby lists cannot be opened to edit
- Fixed: an issue on LinkedIn jobs
** New in 6.0.6
- Fixed: highlighting on Single Page Apps
- New: Form to send a bug to the developer
** New in 6.0.5
- Fixed: issue with corrupted synchronized lists which breaks the rendering of the lists
** New in 6.0.4
- Fixed: issue with restoring backups
- New: ability to reset all data and settings
** New in 6.0.1
- Fixed: issue with transforming Synchronized lists
** New in 6.0.0
- Extra styles for highlighting : Bold, Italic, Underline
- Ability to change highligting by selecting rounded corners, padding, shadow
- Ability to define a zone on a page for highlighting
- Switch to Manifest v3, which better protects user security
- Subscriptions
- Fixed: speed of editor
- Fixed: various small issues with remote lists
** New in 5.3.6
- Fixed: an issue with scrolling to highlight tags
** New in 5.3.5
- Fixed: Performance issues
** New in 5.2
- Define click actions for highlighted words
- Support for loading words from Google Sheets
- Define download frequency for remote lists
- Fixed: Negative reverse lookup regex
- Fixed: Issue with Highlight overview
- Fixed: Issue with download button
** New in 5.1
- Support for case sensitive matching
- Manage words from context menu
** New in 5.0
- New editor to manage your words (filter, select, delete, move)
- Support for Regex tokens
** Define words **
Easily specify words and phrases you want to be highlighted.
** Highlighting **
Highlights the words and phrases on the page
Shows how many words have been highlighted
** Works on Ajax pages **
The extension detects changes to the page and re-highlights the words.
Latest reviews
- (2024-11-03) Hany Aloum: Good alternative for Multi-highlight plugin since it had no support for over 2 years. Edit: 5/5 but please update firefox version so we can import/export our backups
- (2024-06-11) DL17: Original review (Aug 2022): I would give this a higher rating, but there's been a recurring issue of words disappearing from a list. All lists are set to sync so it's not due to changing computers. This issue is making me consider using another extension. I really like this extension and its functionality but the disappearing words is making this too unreliable. Dec 2023 Update: I still enjoy using this extension and find it very helpful, but the disappearing words is still an ongoing issue. The workaround is to backup frequently so you can revert but ideally this bug could be fixed. June 2024 Update: I contacted the developer regarding disappearing words and he was able to find the root cause of the issue and it was fixed in a later update. One outstanding issue is using this on LinkedIn Jobs. When viewing jobs, the title of the job postings you look at seem to merge with the title of the previous postings you viewed. For example, if you view a job with the title "Senior Analyst" and then view one called "Marketing Associate", this marketing posting will display as something like "Marketing Associate Senior Analyst". The titles get clumped together for some reason.
- (2023-11-15) Aleks: Not working
- (2023-11-07) Taylor Goddard: This is an amazing extension, one of the best I've ever used. I believe adding an "Exclusion of Word Combinations" feature would take this extension to the next level. Let me give an example to clarify. Example: Lets say I want to highlight the words "Address", "City" and "State". On the same page however, those same words are included in "Mailing Address", "Mailing City" and "Mailing State" but I do not wish for those to be highlighted. It would be amazing to have and exclusion list where I could add those word combinations to not be highlighted. I would most certainly return to this review and change it to 5 stars if this feature was added.
- (2023-10-18) Ricky: The backup feature is just broken and doesn't work. Using this on the latest Vivaldi browser (which is Chromium based) and it just doesn't backup the settings to my Downloads folder, or to any folder (I monitored the process using Process Monitor from Microsoft sysinternals). I also tried doing a backup from here (chrome-extension://fgmbnmjmbjenlhbefngfibmjkpbcljaj/v3migration.html) and it didn't do anything. My downloads folder is not in the typical C:\Users\.... path. It's redirected to D:\ drive and the redirection is simply using the properties of the Downloads folder and adjusting the Location to D:\Downloads. I don't know whether this extension has a problem recognizing redirected folders, but none of the other browser extensions, nor the other Windows apps that I use, have any problems. UPDATE: Fixed the bug using ChatGPT. Update this function "downloadObjectAsJson" to this: function downloadObjectAsJson(exportObj, exportName, callback) { var jsonData = JSON.stringify(exportObj); var blob = new Blob([jsonData], { type: 'application/json' }); var url = URL.createObjectURL(blob); chrome.downloads.download({ url: url, filename: exportName + '.json' }, function(downloadId) { if(chrome.runtime.lastError) { console.error(chrome.runtime.lastError); } else { notify.backupCompleted(); callback(); } }); } and make sure the manifest has the downloads permission, like this: "permissions": ["tabs","contextMenus","notifications","alarms","storage","offscreen","downloads"], OR, just download my modified extension below and sideload this into any Chromium based browsers. Make sure to delete the original extension before you sideload this one. I've included the fix for the issue above, as well as increased the subscription trial to 99999 days: https://imgur.com/NIoTmpY https://fastupload.io/DZfhQDiBcJvSNZv/file
- (2023-10-13) Eric: UPDATE: HIGHLIGHTS ARE NOW LIMITED YOU ARE FORCED TO BUY A SUBSCRIPTION. I have also removed all my previous troubleshooting contributions because I am not getting paid by the developers to fix their problems.
- (2023-10-07) Stephanie McKenzie: Would be fantastic if not for the force open changelog in a new tab, and that tab has a bunch of third party advertising cookies that aren't easy to opt out of. It's just so unnecessary, include the change log in the app in an about tab or something. I appreciate the developer and the hard work he's put in, I just wish it didn't bug me every time it updates. There's no way to opt out of it.
- (2023-09-09) Phúc Nguyễn: a lot of bugs.
- (2023-08-30) Javier Mascherano: Güncelleme sonrası çöp oldu... Auto Highlight kullanmaya devam...
- (2023-08-26) Sean Flanigan: Upgrade lost all keywords, and the backup just contains a useless empty group with no keywords inside.
- (2023-08-23) behrouz 40: should be free
- (2023-08-18) Carlos Vargas: Ya no funciona como antes, malware ni lo instalen
- (2023-08-16) Mariya Chesnokova: Постоянно слетает подсветка
- (2023-08-09) Niel Ricketts: Wow! What an amazing extension... This has made my life so much easier! Thanks, Wim! By the way, currently, when you add a custom Hyperlink to your highlighted text, it opens in a New Tab, which works in most cases. It would be a major improvement, if on a per-list basis, we could pick whether the clickable links open in a New Tab, New Window, or the Current Tab. At least speaking for myself, if you added that, I would start using that instantly, and this would become 10x more useful! But I'm sure there are others who feel similarly and may just not have articulated it. Any interest?
- (2023-08-07) Michael Auslander: Was once a great app for allergy users, but not sure since the new update. The update limits the number of highlightable words to 200. What we don't know is if that limit is on configurable words, or highlighted words per page. Even still, the alternative to unlock unlimited highlights is to edit all amazon.com links to include the author's affiliate tag - thereby granting the author the ability to view all purchases made using their link. I'll probably keep using the 200 limited version. 20 euro per year for an extension that simply highlights text seems quite overpriced.
- (2023-08-07) JT Taylor (JT): Went from 5 stars to 1 star. Been using this for years, have absolutely loved it, and now making it a paid service? No thanks, I'll go elsewhere.
- (2023-08-06) Medran Tol: Lost all my highlights in the "automatic update". Even worst, what was free, now is a paid feature. Beware of the malware of the new "free" version.
- (2023-08-04) Omar XD: Ya no lo recomiendo, no te deja marcar nada...
- (2023-08-03) Ykzir Polyglot: thank you Mr Wim Deboel, it seems like very helpful. I will definitely subscribe.
- (2023-08-01) Joe Seterman: They made it worse with the new update, they now want to charge to highlight more than 200 words where as previously it was free. DO NOT UPDATE
- (2023-08-01) Damian Borja: The extension worked wonders, but now they want to charge you for using the extension. I remember always seeing that this extension will always be free in full context. Bring back the extension without pay that we all loved.
- (2023-08-01) Keenan: Should be a free and pro model
- (2023-07-31) vaux a: Will be finding an alternative. Out of nowhere and with no warning its now a subscription based extension and I'm not going to subscribe to something like this. I get it, the creator wants to profit, but a subscription is ridiculous.
- (2023-07-31) Thim Hansen: As many others, I have enjoyed the extension for a long time. I'm not gonna deal with the headache of having a thousand small subscriptions, so I'm not going to pay. Not to misunderstand, that I would certainly pay for a one time purchase, if that was the case.
- (2023-07-30) Greg Jobber: Glad to see the silent link insertion has now been disclosed. It has now graduated from malware to adware (slash payware - best of luck with that).
- (2023-07-28) sevenreasons: bye
- (2023-07-23) Andrew Wilson: I've used this extension for years and built numerous lists that are all gone now, without warning. I wouldn't of minded paying a few dollars, but not when I lose everything over night.
- (2023-07-20) Rozzy Mabalahibo: Used to work well but now requires a subscription and has been causing issues redirecting links in web browsing.
- (2023-07-19) MY GMAIL: LOL. They charge now up to 20 euro... I've used it for years, and brought more users to it than can count but they suddenly want me to pay over 20 euro for this super simple extension that not always works. There are hundreds of the same ones that are FREE so time to move on. You have to be insane to chanrge 20 euro per year for this. Previously also all my lists were gone without any warning, as the dev changed only the style of the extensions (but not functionality) and messed up something in the process..
- (2023-07-12) Влад «bloodvlad» Стариченко: После обновления просит подписку, до этого работало нормально с неограниченным количеством слов. Прошлая версия 5 звёзд. Новая версия 1 звезда.
- (2023-07-10) Emiliia Ashanina: После обновления перестало работать. Все папки были удалены.
- (2023-07-09) Fred Wachtel: I have been using this product for years, and have raved about it to everybody. Now, in one update and NO warning, all of my lists (which were very comprehensive) are gone! Plus, you want me to pay for it. Now I am not against paying, but not when you F over your customer base like this.
- (2023-07-07) Green AI: 5 stars 1 month ago, today, i woke up, and all highlights gone
- (2023-07-06) света ивановна: Пишет пробная версия просит денег
- (2023-06-28) shamsul arefin: Bug report: if you activate rehighlight option in settings, then it creates a blank space at the end of each line of the webpage. this goes on and on.
- (2023-06-28) Asya Enu: This is horrible. It worked yesterday but today I logged in and all of my lists were just gone bc they decided to update it and add a paid subscription. I understand if you want to do it but WHY you delete all of my lists and don't even give me a chance to save them?? This is a terrible way to treat your users
- (2023-06-26) Vanny Tiongson: Wim, the creator, was super helpful with my issues. When I saw the new version, I immediately purchased a 1 year subscription. The extension had helped me a lot and it is definitely worth paying for.
- (2023-06-22) Sergey Yunapuu: После утреннего обновления исчезли все старые списки и невозможно создать новые. По сути приложение больше не работает
- (2023-06-21) Moth: as already said above - redirecting traffic to some websites through affiliate links. plus the last update to the extension completely broke it, to say nothing of the fact that ~1000 of my added words are gone (thanks that i'm saving them locally)
- (2023-06-20) Нина Воротникова: было все ок. Теперь непонятно что хочет - You are on a trial subscription with all features enabled. Your trial expires in 30 days. Change your subscription Придется искать другие варианты
- (2023-06-15) Luca Buratto: Was a great extension, till the last update that despite adding a revenue model (fine, business is business), brought also a lot of bugs. - I lost all my list of keywords - If I try to add any new one it seems it's added but I don't see, neither I can edit it Basically it's useless. I'm happy to pay for the extension if it works. In this case, it just created a lot of problems, out of the blue. Please fix it (Chrome Version 114.0.5735.133 (Official Build) (arm64) - OSX 13.3 (22E8252))
- (2023-06-14) Ethan Moles: this extension was really great, until the new version that just rolled out where they are requiring subscriptions to have more than 200 words. i have used this extension for a long time, and suddenly out of nowhere, without any prompting or any previous notice, i am being required to pay for a subscription if i want my word lists to work...every single thing on the internet seems to force you to pay a 'subscription' to use it. the subscription model is ridiculous. i would be more willing to pay a flat fee up front of a reasonable amount, but the ongoing subscription forever model is terrible and really shows how little companies care about the people who use their service. the extension itself works great for what i need it for, and i would ahve been willing to pay a flat fee to use it for life on my devices given the option and some notice about the change. but the sudden abrupt change to a subscription-based model with no notice is pretty frustrating.
- (2023-06-12) Mahmoud Elleithy: i usually dont leave reviews but i had to give whoever made this some credit it is amazing extension
- (2023-06-11) lawrence d'Aniello: Thanks for your great extension! Could you add the possibility to not have the voice of the extension in context menu (right click)? Thanks again!
- (2023-06-09) Dylan Julian: I have been using the Google extension this for years, and I must say it continues to impress me. This extension, developed by a very friendly developer, has become an essential part of my browsing routine.Cannot live without it! The extension has a straightforward and efficient way of finding and marking specific words on webpages. Whether I'm researching, studying, or reading articles, it enhances my ability to quickly locate and comprehend important information. Its reliability and consistent performance have made it my go-to tool. I cannot stress enough how great the developer is. Their commitment to this extension's quality is evident in the seamless integration and user-friendly interface. They have done an incredible job of ensuring a smooth and intuitive experience, allowing me to focus on the content rather than struggling with the extension itself. Also the developer's attentiveness to bug fixes and updates deserves applause. Over the years, I have witnessed consistent improvements that have further refined the functionality and performance. Dank je!
- (2023-06-03) cy y: 新版快捷键不能用了
- (2023-05-27) Indomys Detmer: I want to highlight question marks, but this extension decided to include TWO wildcards where both * and ? are used for any letters. Now, how am I going to specifically find keywords/phrases that contain question marks?
- (2023-05-20) Mc AbadBoy: Findind text in editable textboxes is not working no matter what I do. What about a update?
- (2023-04-25) Yu Chen Huang: Hi is that possible to support such function like storage or something?
- (2023-04-21) Владимир Подосинников: Вмешивается в код страницы. Конкретно ломает работу отдельных рабочих страниц. Ложные срабатывания. Может вставлять хайлайты с предыдущих страниц в последующие, где их нет по факту. Впрочем, все подобные расширения, которые я использовал, грешили этим. Редиректа, о котором многие пишут, не заметил. Долго пользовался этим расширением, но оно стало ломать мой рабочий процесс.