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Highlighter

by Jérôme Parent-Lévesque · Workflow & Planning
FeaturedManifest V3 Free
View in Chrome Web Store Data as of 15 Oct 2026

Highlight text on websites with a simple right-click or keyboard shortcut. Saves highlights on your device.

Users
100K
0 in 30 days
Rating
3.5 / 5
−0.23 in 30 days
Ratings
317
0 in 30 days
Store rank
#1,852
#1,619 among extensions
Version
4.0.5
updated 26 Jun 2023

Users

monthly, 3 years
30K65K100KAug 2023Apr 2025Oct 2026
Latest, 15 Oct 2026: 100,000 usersMove the mouse over the chart for any month

Ratings count

monthly, 3 years
70194318Aug 2023Apr 2025Oct 2026
Latest, 15 Oct 2026: 317 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 Highlighter

Easiest way to highlight text on any webpage! Simply select text, then right click it to select the "Highlight" option. Alternatively, use the default keyboard shortcut 'Alt+H' (^H on Mac). All highlighted texts are saved so that your highlights are not lost when exiting a page! Simply re-opening that page will bring back all the highlights. NOTE: This does not work on very dynamic webpages like Facebook and most email clients. Support for these might be added in the future. ➪ View and copy all highlights on a page ➪ Copy all your highlights to your clipboard easily. ➪ Select existing highlights with a simple click to either delete them or to copy their content. ➪ Customize your highlight colors (and text color). ➪ Change the keyboard shortcut through Chrome settings at 'chrome://extensions/shortcuts'. The code for this project is fully open-source and is available on GitHub: https://github.com/jeromepl/highlighter Help this project by reporting issues and contributing there! --------- Disclaimer: This extension uses Google Analytics to gather non-personal user information and usage information. We DO NOT collect browsing information such as the contents of highlights or accessed URLs. For more information, consult our privacy policy at the link below. The privacy policy for this extension can be found here: https://github.com/jeromepl/highlighter/blob/master/privacy_policy.md

Growth

WindowUsersChangeRatingsRating
7 days0+0.0%0−0.23
30 days0+0.0%0−0.23
6 months0+0.0%−1−0.24
1 year0+0.0%+11−0.23

Chrome Web Store search rankings

Where Highlighter appears when people search the store, with the 30 day change
Search phrasePosition30 days
highlighter#10

Version history

7 versions recorded
4.0.525 Jun 2023
4.0.420 Nov 2022
4.0.216 May 2022
4.0.117 Feb 2022
3.1.210 Feb 2021
3.0.010 Jul 2020
2.2.027 Oct 2019

Details

Category
Workflow & Planning
First seen
27 Oct 2019
Size
90 KB
Languages
en
Pricing
Free
Support
github.com
Extension ID
fdfcjfoifbjplmificlkdfneafllkgmn

Permissions and risk

Minimal riskimpact 2, likelihood 0
Permissions
contextMenusscriptingstorage
Site access
<all_urls>
Can read and change data on every website you visit.

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