Productivity Highlighter for any Website or PDF. Free and easy to use without signing up.

Latest Version

Version
10.5.1
Update
November 25, 2024
Size
4.4MiB
Developer
web-highlights.com
Category
Users
100,000+
Rating
4.83202 ★
Manifest Version
3
Web Store Status
Languages Support
English
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Permissions
Tabs
ContextMenus
Storage
Scripting
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Web Highlights - PDF & Web Highlighter Extension

Stay organized on the internet with Web Highlights, the must-have productivity tool for students, bloggers, programmers, and avid online readers.

Highlight websites, take notes, and save websites as bookmarks. Choose between offline mode or seamless sync with our web app at web-highlights.com. Enjoy efficient access to your research, highlights, notes, and bookmarks with tags and full-text search. Receive email reminders, daily highlights, and easily export to Notion, Obsidian, and more for enhanced learning and productivity.

⭐ EXCITING FEATURES ⭐

🟢 Highlight websites and PDFs
🎨 Multiple colors
🔖 Save bookmarks
✍️ Take notes
🏷️ Create tags
📷 Highlight images *
𝐓 Highlight in various formats (paragraphs, headings, etc.) *
🧠 Daily highlights recap & learning
⚡ Keyboard shortcuts for highest efficiency
📄 Export to Notion, Obsidian, and more
📑 Copy to HTML and Markdown
📁 Export to PDF and HTML files *
🔄 Sync your highlights and access from any device *
📱 Save pages as bookmarks from your mobile phone *
⏰ Set email reminders *
📚 Import your Kindle highlights & notes
💾 Backup your research
🔗 Share your highlights *
👥 Explore what others shared
🔍 Find your highlights with powerful full-text search

* Available with a 7-day free trial in the Premium/Ultimate plan. More info here: https://web-highlights.com/pricing

🔥 Enjoy all features 🔥

Web Highlights can be used for free without signing up. The offline features will always be available for you to use at no charge. No account is needed for that. To fully enjoy the benefits of Web Highlights, including accessing your highlights and bookmarks from anywhere with automatic cloud-sync, you'll need to sign up. During a 7-day trial, you can explore all the features. After the trial, certain functionalities like automatic cloud backup and exporting may have some restrictions. To continue using these features without limitations, you can upgrade to the PREMIUM or ULTIMATE version of the extension. You can find the current pricing here: https://web-highlights.com/pricing

💡 GOOD TO KNOW 💡

➤ You can enable/disable the highlighter pop-up by clicking on the settings-icon at the bottom of the left sidebar.

➤ Web Highlights usually works on most websites, but it's essential to be aware that there are some websites where it might not function correctly due to conflicting code.

➤ There are several keyboard shortcuts to use the extension more efficiently. You can customize your Web Highlights shortcuts in your Google Chrome settings (chrome://extensions/shortcuts)

➤ You can freely install and use the Web Highlights Extension without any cost. The offline features will always be available for you to use at no charge. No account is needed for that. To fully enjoy the benefits of Web Highlights, including accessing your highlights and bookmarks from anywhere with automatic cloud-sync, you'll need to sign up. During a 7-day trial, you can explore all the features. After the trial, certain functionalities like automatic cloud backup and exporting may have some restrictions. To continue using these features without limitations, you can upgrade to the PREMIUM or ULTIMATE version of the extension.

➤ You can highlight both local PDFs from your computer and online PDFs. To enable local PDF highlighting, you'll need to grant the extension access to file URLs. You can find more information about it here: https://web-highlights.com/blog/how-to-highlight-pdfs-using-web-highlights

➤ You can export your research as PDF or HTML files, or copy it in Markdown or HTML format. This way, you can easily synchronize your work by pasting it into a tool of your preference, like Notion or Oblivion. Additionally, you can share your research with others and explore highlights, articles, and notes from other users on various topics.

➤ Our Chrome online highlighter comes with a fantastic tagging feature that makes it easy to locate and revisit the information and research you've done in the past. You can filter for specific pages, take notes, and search for particular terms within the search bar to quickly access the content you need.


🔒 YOUR DATA BELONGS TO YOU 🔒

At Web Highlights, we prioritize data privacy. Your highlights, notes, and tags are visible only to you by default unless you decide to share them with others. Your data is solely yours and can only be accessed either from your computer or through secure authorization with your account.

We also ensure that your data is:

➤ Not being sold to third parties
➤ Not being used or transferred for purposes that are unrelated to the item's core functionality
➤ Not being used or transferred to determine creditworthiness or for lending 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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Source Manifest.json

{
"update_url": "https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx",
"name":"Web Highlights - PDF & Web Highlighter",
"description":"Productivity Highlighter for any Website or PDF. Free and easy to use without signing up.",
"short_name":"Web Highlights",
"version":"10.5.1",
"manifest_version":3,
"content_scripts":[{"matches":[""],
"js":["node_modules/@webhighlights/extension-components/dist/content.js"]}],
"icons":{"16":"./assets/marker-icon.png",
"128":"./assets/marker-icon.png"},
"action":{},
"background":{"service_worker":"node_modules/@webhighlights/extension-components/dist/background.js",
"type":"module"},
"web_accessible_resources":[{"resources":["pdf/*"],
"matches":["https://web-highlights.com/*",
"https://pre.web-highlights.com/*",
"http://localhost:8081/*"]}],
"permissions":["tabs",
"contextMenus",
"storage",
"scripting"],
"host_permissions":["http://*/",
"https://*/",
"*://*/*"],
"commands":{"highlight-text":{"suggested_key":{"default":"Alt+S",
"mac":"Alt+S"},
"description":"Highlight Text"},
"highlight-last-format":{"suggested_key":{"default":"Alt+A",
"mac":"Alt+A"},
"description":"Highlight (Same format)"},
"toggle-sidebar":{"suggested_key":{"default":"Alt+W",
"mac":"Alt+W"},
"description":"Toggle Sidebar"},
"toggle-bookmark":{"suggested_key":{"default":"Alt+B",
"mac":"Alt+B"},
"description":"Save Bookmark"}}}
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User reviews

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Γιώργος Παναγιωτόπουλος (ID: 000000ab23d80d10) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 11/16/2024 This extension has the right balance of features and just doing what it says on the box.

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Claudia Lee (ID: 000000f9ef362694) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 06/16/2024 the most simple and useful , Iike it !

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Diêgo Araújo (ID: 00000019fae83715) Voted 1 ★ - Updated 03/19/2024 Horrível.

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Youran Li (ID: 000000bf0e9e9416) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 01/18/2024 -updated: used it for half a year. Kept as great as it is! great web highlighter so far! works on academic papers that need VPN access.

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I (ID: 000000742e31b5e1) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 12/09/2023 This tool is awesome ! It's so useful because once you direct the area, you only have to press one button to highlight. How easy! I'm soooo helped by this tool, thank you so much :) 使いやすくてめっちゃ役に立っています、おすすめです!どうもありがとう^^