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Auto Highlight

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View in Chrome Web Store Data as of 15 Oct 2026

*Auto Highlight* automatically highlights the important content on article pages.

Users
30K
+10K in 30 days
Rating
3.6 / 5
unchanged in 30 days
Ratings
25
0 in 30 days
Store rank
#4,964
#4,316 among extensions
Version
3.6.0
updated 19 Mar 2024

Users

monthly, 3 years
3,00016K30KAug 2023Apr 2025Oct 2026
Latest, 15 Oct 2026: 30,000 usersMove the mouse over the chart for any month

Ratings count

monthly, 3 years
71727Aug 2023Apr 2025Oct 2026
Latest, 15 Oct 2026: 25 ratingsMove the mouse over the chart for any month

The Chrome Web Store rounds user counts down to the leading digit, so the user line moves in steps. The ratings count is exact and is the better signal of real adoption.

About Auto Highlight

This extension automatically highlights the important content on article pages. It addresses *tl;dr* in a similar way to an article summarizer. To use, click the highlighter icon in the location bar. Clicking multiple times changes the highlighting coverage. As the page receives more highlighting from clicking the icon, the icon will show less available ink in the highlighter. Please let me know if you find particular pages where the extension does not work well. *Auto Highlight* currently uses an algorithm for picking important sentences based on term frequencies in the entire article. With examples of problematic pages, I can possibly improve the technology. I would also like to incorporate more advanced techniques from extraction-based article summarization research. The source code is available on GitHub: https://github.com/dstein64/highlight Privacy Policy: This extension does not collect user data nor transmit user data remotely. Options for the extension are saved locally.

Growth

WindowUsersChangeRatingsRating
7 days0+0.0%00.00
30 days+10K+50.0%00.00
6 months0+0.0%−1−0.01
1 year0+0.0%−2−0.03

Chrome Web Store search rankings

Where Auto Highlight appears when people search the store, with the 30 day change
Search phrasePosition30 days
auto#59+30

Version history

18 versions recorded
3.6.019 Mar 2024
3.5.03 Jun 2022
3.4.1131 May 2022
3.4.1024 Feb 2022
3.4.918 Feb 2022
3.4.816 Feb 2022
3.4.71 Nov 2021
3.4.630 Oct 2021

Details

Category
Workflow & Planning
First seen
27 Mar 2020
Size
229 KB
Languages
en
Pricing
Free
Support
github.com
Extension ID
dnkdpcbijfnmekbkchfjapfneigjomhh

Permissions and risk

Minimal riskimpact 0, likelihood 0
Permissions
activeTabcontextMenusscriptingstorage

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