Readwise Highlighter
Extension Actions
CRX ID
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Status
- Extension status: Featured
Description from extension meta
Save a page to Readwise Reader
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Description from store
This is the official Reader browser extension made by and maintained by the Readwise team.
You use the Reader Highlighter extension to:
• Save articles to Reader – the first ever read-it-later app built for power readers. If you’ve ever used Instapaper or Pocket, Reader is like those, except it’s built for the modern era and brings all your reading into one place including: web articles, email newsletters, RSS feeds, Twitter threads, PDFs, EPUBs and more. You can get started with Reader here.
• Highlight and annotate the open web.
All highlights that you make using this extension will be synced with the Readwise ecosystem and, optionally, to your note-taking app of choice such as Obsidian, Notion, Roam Research, Evernote, Logseq, and more.
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Note: You must have an existing Readwise account to use this extension.
If you are not already a subscriber, you can get a free 30-day trial with no credit card upfront. At the end of the trial, you will not be charged unless you choose to subscribe.
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Latest reviews
- Romi Viola
- Not gonna lie: I use this every day. Fantastic job!
- Andy Bryant
- Has been good until I worked out it is breaking the functionality in Edge for ScrollToTextFragment.
- Michael Sean Comerford
- "Reader is like those, except it’s built for 2023" It's 2025? This review is for set-up. I hope if I keep at it that I will understand it, maybe by 2023? More handholding please, I really need this.
- Ritesh Sonawala
- Great extension generally but doesnt work on Arc browser - Not sure if others are facing too but i just dont see Save Highlight to Readwise in context menu.
- Laszlo Stadler
- Why does it run in the background when Chrome is closed? I can't even seem to find a setting a disable this. This is creepy.
- Coleman Yu
- The Chrome version of this plugin does not automatically show the highlight I made before. Each time I need to click the plugin again to re-load it to the website to show the highlight..
- Daniel
- works quickly and effectively
- Stanley M Ndagi
- !! This extension may soon no longer be supported !! ...based on Chrome web store. Use their updated one instead: "Readwise Highlighter (Community)" Readwise is an excellent product!
- Timothy Mansfield
- Readwise Reader is an absolutely indispensable part of my knowledge system. I constantly run into interesting articles but don't have time to read them in the moment. Readwise lets me save them for when I do have time and formats them in a distraction-free way for focused reading. The Highlighter plugin is this wonderful addition to the web on top of that though – it means I can save just a paragraph or a sentence I love out of any page on the web. That highlight flows through Readwise and into my note-taking app and my link archive. Everything just stays organised for when I need it later. Indispensable!
- hao hao
- If you highlight a code block using this plugin and review in readwise review, the linebreak is missing, which means all code is in ONE LINE. This maks the plugin difficulty to use
- Guilherme Nogueira
- Have been using it with Vivaldi Browser for more than a year, not with the latest version of the browser I get a crash when opening the browser if the extension is active :(
- Fabio Scarsi
- Super useful for Readwise Reader users. I use it daily to collect and annotate the relevant pages I read while surfing.
- Matt Brockman
- super useful for tracking what im reading
- Alex Curtis
- Readwise is an awesome tool for remembering and reinforcing what you read. A lot of what we read now is from articles on the web and I love the way this extension works. It seemlessly allows you to highlight webpages and have them show up in readwise results. It also allows you to save to Readwise Reader for reading later when you come across a long article. I was on the fence with keeping my Readwise subscription when Reader was released and now I happily pay the subscription, it is very worth it now.
- Charles Kahle
- The Readers DOES NOT read highlights that are made in Foxit Phantom. I imported 20 pdf articles that I had scanned into text readable pdfs in Foxit Phantom to test out the conversion of reading my highliughts. These articles had numerous highlights and comments in them. NONE of the highlights or comments were picked up by Readwise. Further, all images abd tables imported with the article are not selectable or highlightable by Readwise either. Very disappointing. The only good news is that, now that I've already highlighted the articles, it is relatively simple to identify what needs to be highlighted in Readwise and go through and overlay highlights from Readwise on top of the existing highlights.
- Jen Hardesty
- Highlights only go to the reader and never get exported to anywhere. Can't get the highligher importer or the reader importer to show as connected and can't get them to export content either. Useless.
- Pankaj Kabra
- Reader is an amazong product! Really useful to do deep dives on papers and especially of great help in youtube videos!
- Husam ABBOUD
- Please remove the shortcut Alt+R or add an option to the extension to disable or change it, it is used by other sites inside the page operations that even when readwise not allowed for such site still this shortcut active and can't use it on that site
- Husam ABBOUD
- Please remove the shortcut Alt+R or add an option to the extension to disable or change it, it is used by other sites inside the page operations that even when readwise not allowed for such site still this shortcut active and can't use it on that site
- Patric
- One thing I really miss: Reader from Readwise has some RSS Feeds where it can not load the full article (due to paywalls). Now opening the page in the browser and press the extension button will NOT overwrite the page it loaded from the RSS feed previously. Instead I have to delete the article in reader and then re-add it with the extension again. So a button like "Update the saved version" would be great
- Abi Olvera
- The reading and voice-to-text app I've been waiting for. I used to be a Pocket Premium subscriber even though their audio was terrible, kept pausing/freezing. Reader does everything Pocket does and MORE. I love long walks now because I get to listen to my articles the same I listen to my audiobooks. I also manages my highlights and offers AI to summarize articles. It's a Feed reader too - so replaced my Feedly. LOVE.
- Abi Olvera
- The reading and voice-to-text app I've been waiting for. I used to be a Pocket Premium subscriber even though their audio was terrible, kept pausing/freezing. Reader does everything Pocket does and MORE. I love long walks now because I get to listen to my articles the same I listen to my audiobooks. I also manages my highlights and offers AI to summarize articles. It's a Feed reader too - so replaced my Feedly. LOVE.
- Lin Gos
- 很多中文网站抓取后，排版错误，图片丢失 例如: https://www.volcengine.com/docs/6731/106488，https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/Wf5-9dK61pdWyOAi79ye6Q，https://help.aliyun.com/document_detail/99949.html?spm=a2c4g.99948.0.0.27c11c75kXlFyL，https://help.aliyun.com/document_detail/310912.html?spm=a2c4g.99949.0.0.33cd67cbzfvKx8
- Aaron G
- Outrageously amazing service, great extension which lets you highlight in the context of viewing the actual page! I actually subscribed before my free trial was over because it was so great I wanted to support them more.
- Aaron G
- Outrageously amazing service, great extension which lets you highlight in the context of viewing the actual page! I actually subscribed before my free trial was over because it was so great I wanted to support them more.
- Po-Jung Chen
- This is an awesome app among all the highlight Apps I've ever used. However, one thing that annoys me is that when the website is in dark mode, I can no longer see the marked text. Please support highlighting text that is in dark mode.
- Po-Jung Chen
- This is an awesome app among all the highlight Apps I've ever used. However, one thing that annoys me is that when the website is in dark mode, I can no longer see the marked text. Please support highlighting text that is in dark mode.
- Dan Balcauski
- I love Readwise, but their support is atrocious. This extension mysteriously stopped working a couple of months ago and they won't respond to any support requests. It seems like their new company strategy is to focus all their effort on the new Reader platform and give up on the original product.
- Dan Balcauski
- I love Readwise, but their support is atrocious. This extension mysteriously stopped working a couple of months ago and they won't respond to any support requests. It seems like their new company strategy is to focus all their effort on the new Reader platform and give up on the original product.
- Eric John
- Have never had so many good things to say about not just one, but both of their apps. Absolutely worth trying it out for so many reasons.
- Eric John
- Have never had so many good things to say about not just one, but both of their apps. Absolutely worth trying it out for so many reasons.
- Ricardo Bustos
- Readwise has made my reviews a lot easier
- Ricardo Bustos
- Readwise has made my reviews a lot easier
- Dmitry Shvetsov
- it is an amazing app, 5 starts, love it, even if not everything is smooth. It is all inclusive readers app that replace many outdated, not evolving apps. Readwise team please keep making it even better! Love you!
- Dmitry Shvetsov
- it is an amazing app, 5 starts, love it, even if not everything is smooth. It is all inclusive readers app that replace many outdated, not evolving apps. Readwise team please keep making it even better! Love you!
- Kevin Weatherwalks
- Love this so much, but did something change recently that affects being able to highlight text on a website and right-clicking to find "highlight and save to Readwise"? That option disappeared for me. Hoping to find it again since it saved a couple clicks.
- Kevin Weatherwalks
- Love this so much, but did something change recently that affects being able to highlight text on a website and right-clicking to find "highlight and save to Readwise"? That option disappeared for me. Hoping to find it again since it saved a couple clicks.
- Maarten van der Hout
- Great app and extension!
- Maarten van der Hout
- Great app and extension!
- Jorge Simarro Villar
- Definitily, The highlighting extension all we¡ve been waiting for.
- Jorge Simarro Villar
- Definitily, The highlighting extension all we¡ve been waiting for.
- Mark Modesti
- The option to open in reader gets stuck on asking me to install the extension. I've already done that in Chrome, but when I click to try and move forward it takes me to the extension manager and asks if I want to remove the extension.
- Mark Modesti
- The option to open in reader gets stuck on asking me to install the extension. I've already done that in Chrome, but when I click to try and move forward it takes me to the extension manager and asks if I want to remove the extension.
- Tong WU
- Well, I guess this official highlighter extension has some discoverability issue. It doesn't appear in the Chrome web store search results, & the #1 result is the one built by community, which is really confusing.
- Tong WU
- Well, I guess this official highlighter extension has some discoverability issue. It doesn't appear in the Chrome web store search results, & the #1 result is the one built by community, which is really confusing.
- Ale Vigilante
- One of the best tools out there (if not THE best) if you're a professional researcher.
- Ale Vigilante
- One of the best tools out there (if not THE best) if you're a professional researcher.
- Helen Lee
- This web highlighter is EXACTLY what I needed!!! It syncs IMMEDIATELY to my Readwise dashboard - fantastic! 👍
- Helen Lee
- This web highlighter is EXACTLY what I needed!!! It syncs IMMEDIATELY to my Readwise dashboard - fantastic! 👍
- Misho Zghuladze
- Absolutely fantastic!