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Multi Highlight

FeaturedManifest V3 Free
View in Chrome Web Store Data as of 15 Oct 2026

Efficiently and flexibly highlight your online reading.

Users
50K
0 in 30 days
Rating
3.6 / 5
+0.16 in 30 days
Ratings
90
0 in 30 days
Store rank
#3,527
#3,074 among extensions
Version
2.11.1
updated 18 Feb 2023

Users

monthly, 3 years
10K30K50KAug 2023Apr 2025Oct 2026
Latest, 15 Oct 2026: 50,000 usersMove the mouse over the chart for any month

Ratings count

monthly, 3 years
105090Aug 2023Apr 2025Oct 2026
Latest, 15 Oct 2026: 90 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 Multi Highlight

Are you tired of losing track of important information in your online reading? Multi Highlight is here to help! With this powerful and efficient chrome extension, you can easily highlight all your user-specified words in webpages with beautiful colors. Multi Highlight can do real-time highlighting as you type, automatically re-highlight your word list when the webpage content changes or when the page is loaded, and it accepts custom word separators. You can save your user-specified word list, do whole word and case-sensitive searches, and even group words by colors. With Multi Highlight, you can stay focused and efficient while reading online. It's perfect for students and professionals who regularly read online content for studying or work. Try Multi Highlight today and take your online reading to the next level! Features: ✔️ Real-time Highlight ✔️ Auto-ReHighlight ✔️ Customizable word separator ✔️ Whole word, Case-sensitivity Search ✔️ Group words by colors 2023 February * Adapt to manifest V3 * Refresh words (1) when textbox is focused but inactive for short a period (2) when popup is closed * Fix style broke in browser's built-in page and in pages that loaded before extension installation. In these pages, disable textbox and show notification * Update UI 2022 September * Feature Auto-Rehighlight * Bug fix: rehighlight words when extension is softly disabled * Bug fix: webpage broke if website customize <span> element 2022 June * Improve adaptability -- add support to highlight asynchronous text (e.g. AJAX content) * Fix option page's saving issue 2022 January * Support nested highlight * Bug fix: innerHTML deleted unintentionally * Bug fix: Word boundary not working for keyword-list * DEV Change keyword data structure and update the version to "2.8.0" due to * Feature Re-highlighting. * Feature Toggle highlighting. * Improve stability * Adjust interface * Fix bug (show current keyword list right after popup; properly remove highlights when NewLineNewColor mode is on) 2021 December * Add options: Whole words only, Casesensitive * Update the highlight lib from [npmjs](https://www.npmjs.com/package/jquery-highlight) * Modified: Handle the options change in one callback function. * Modified: Use 2D array to store the keywords in `NewColorNewLine` mode. * Bugfix: Keywords removal should not remove the container. * Add keywords display zone * Check wheter the page contains the keyword(s) or not, if not, gray it * `Ctrl+Click` to delete the correspond keyword 2021 August * Fix user settings reset after browser update 2021 May * Improve UI * Change Logo * Add "Always highlight" feature * Add "Change color after newline" feature * Fix unstable typesetting issue when typing * Add 10 more highlight colors (now contains 20 colors) 2019 October * Customizable window size * Add 4 more colors (now contains 10 colors) 2019 June * Add "paste keywords to new pages" mode 2019 May * Minimize extension size 2019 January * Highlight any strings (not just full word) * Add Instant Search (highlight on-the-fly) * Add customizable delimiter * Make Highlight Words individual to each tab * UI changes * Add Ctrl+Shift+F as default shortcut 2018 December * Organize code * Change UI (based on Multi-Highlight) * Change extension icon

Growth

WindowUsersChangeRatingsRating
7 days0+0.0%0+0.16
30 days0+0.0%0+0.16
6 months0+0.0%+6+0.17
1 year0+0.0%+9+0.12

Chrome Web Store search rankings

Where Multi Highlight appears when people search the store, with the 30 day change
Search phrasePosition30 days
options#16+11
contain#19+6
change color#46+7
improve#80+14

Version history

9 versions recorded
2.11.117 Feb 2023
2.10.019 Sep 2022
2.9.026 Jun 2022
2.8.022 Jan 2022
2.7.310 Jan 2022
2.75 Jan 2022
2.526 Aug 2021
2.420 May 2021

Details

Category
Workflow & Planning
First seen
31 Oct 2019
Size
112 KB
Languages
en-US
Pricing
Free
Extension ID
ghinpogonpmlphfkmnjfapdaoaainejn

Permissions and risk

Minimal riskimpact 2, likelihood 0
Permissions
activeTabstoragecontextMenusscripting
Site access
https://*/*http://*/*
Can read and change data on every website you visit.

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