Highlight Magic

Enables user to highlight words

As of June 2026, Highlight Magic has 8,000 users and a 4.10/5 rating from 39 reviews in the Workflow & Planning category.

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Version
1.1.5
Manifest V3

History

2 snapshots

Tracking since Apr 21, 2026.

8.1K8.0K7.9KApr 21, 2026Jun 1, 2026
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DateUsersRatingReviewsVersion
Apr 21, 20268.0K4.11381.1.5
May 6, 20268.0K4.11381.1.5
Now8.0K4.10391.1.5

Permissions & access

Permissions
tabsstoragecontextMenus
Host access
None declared

Screenshots

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About

A simple highlight tool which enables anyone to highlight words on any website.

*The tool went through a slight overhaul, please check the "What's new 1.1.3" below!

Features:

- Assign color for each word
- Import from raw list or text file
- Group your words into lists for easier organization
- Sync function to transfer your lists across devices.
- Import/Export your lists.
- Sort your lists *new*
- Quickfind, ctrl-shift-f to bring up quickfind and search instantly, save later. 
- Each word in the list can be case sensitive
- Can use regular expression tokens
- Blacklist sites and pages
- Can match complete words or part of a word
- Stylize your words in Style tab
- Dark mode

To enable Regex tokens, blacklist a site, toggle complete words on or off, go to settings.

If you have any issues please ask & I will help you out!
If you found a bug report it and I'll fix it as soon as possible!
Ideas how to make the extension better are encouraged!

What's new:
1.1.5:
Features
 - Added expand button on lists to view highlight stats
 - Added a save button that enables you to store changes without having to press enter
 - Added sorting methods (Ascending, Descening, By background color, By text color)
 - Added a warning in custom settings that when enabled the global settings are overriden
 - Removed character limit in excluded/exclusive lists

Bug Fixes
 - Badge indicating number of words highlighted now works more consistently and less prone to              breaking
 - Fixed issue where if single color is selected you couldn't change the color individually for each word
 - Effectively inform users that global settings won't be enabled for lists with custom settings enabled 
 - Clear filter when closing lists
 - Toggling the tool or a list off will less likely break a page and also work a bit faster
 - Fixed a bug where changing the title of a list, returning to list menu and clicking the same list, the sheet would show the old one

1.1.4: Some bug fixes that manifested when updating from 1.1.2 to 1.1.3.
1.1.3: 
-Optimized highlighting and fix slowdowns when new elements are added to the page.
- Added import options for raw lists and text files
- Can copy (crtl-c) & paste (ctrl-v) words directly to the list editor
- Press ctrl-a to select all visible words
- Filter words
- Made all lists a single random color by default, can be changed in style settings
- New style tab that let's you customize your highlighted words
- Dark mode!
- Made some stylistic changes to the GUI to make it a bit more modern looking

1.1.2: Bug fix: Replaced additional event paths that broke the mass action option when ticking the a word's checkbox.
 - Toggling a list on/off now disables/enables the highlighting in the active tab.
1.1.1: Bug Fix - event path property is undefined, replaced event paths with composedPath method.

1.1.0: -  Lists are now available! Group your words into lists.
           -  Sync function to transfer your lists across devices.
           -  Import/Export your lists.
           -  Quickfind, ctrl-shift-f to bring up quickfind.
           - Bug Fix: contentEditable incompatibility elements no longer crash page.
           - Highlights in iframes.

1.0.3 - Bug Fix: Text nodes & characterData changes succesfully forwarded to highlighter.
1.0.2 - Bug Fix: Text is no longer removed from textareas.

Extension icon and promotional tiles by Maria Gregoriou behance.net/MariaGregoriou

Icons By Font Awesome https://fontawesome.com/license

Technical

Version
1.1.5
Manifest
V3
Size
421KiB
Min Chrome
88
Languages
1
Featured
Yes

Metadata

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Developer ID
ue93177bf8f9c11f1659d5f76ca6711b7
Developer Email
[email protected]
Created
Sep 22, 2020
Last Updated (Store)
May 30, 2025
Last Scraped
Jun 1, 2026
Website
Support URL
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