Highlight This: finds and marks words
Automatically finds and highlights words and phrases on the web page according to your list
As of June 2026, Highlight This: finds and marks words has 100,000 users and a 3.78/5 rating from 429 reviews in the Education category.
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429 reviews
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429
Version
6.3.12
Manifest V3
History
7 snapshotsTracking since Apr 14, 2026.
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| Date | Users | Rating | Reviews | Version |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 2026 | 100.0K | 3.79 | 425 | 6.3.12 |
| May 7, 2026 | 100.0K | 3.79 | 425 | 6.3.12 |
| May 15, 2026 | 100.0K | 3.79 | 426 | 6.3.12 |
| May 19, 2026 | 100.0K | 3.78 | 427 | 6.3.12 |
| May 23, 2026 | 100.0K | 3.78 | 428 | 6.3.12 |
| Jun 2, 2026 | 100.0K | 3.78 | 431 | 6.3.12 |
| Jun 24, 2026 | 100.0K | 3.78 | 430 | 6.3.12 |
| Now | 100.0K | 3.78 | 429 | 6.3.12 |
Permissions & access
- Permissions
- tabscontextMenusnotificationsalarmsstorageoffscreen
- Host access
- None declared
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About
- No registration required - Organize your search words in groups and lists - Use Regular Expressions (Regex tokens) - All data stored locally - Auto-refreshes highlights on page reload and content changes - Unlimited words and lists - Synchronise lists between your browsers Highlight This! comes: - as a Free version, limited to 200 words and limited highlighting styles - an Unlimited version with affiliate partner link highlighting https://highlightthis.net/PartnerLinks.html - 2 paid versions. Easy to use Chrome Extension that automatically searches for defined words in the current browser tab and marks them in a text. Many more advanced features available through settings: - Create color-coded keyword lists - Disable highlighting on certain sites - Export or import your settings and keyword lists - Define click action - Use lists from Pastebin, Google Sheets Privacy Statement: https://highlightthis.net/Privacy.html EULA: https://highlightthis.net/EULA.pdf ** New in 6.3.10 - Fix: Issue with lookbehind regex ** New in 6.3.8 - Fix: Issue when extending license information ** New in 6.3.8 - Fix: Minor fix in detecting words after, or before, a forward-slash ** New in 6.3.7 - Fix: Minor fix in detecting words after lower quotation marks - Fix: Incorrect highlighting with Regular Expressions that contain \b ** New in 6.3.6 - Fix: lists are not sorted anymore - Fix: breaking highlights due to specific control for "flex" containers ** New in 6.3.4 - Fix: an issue with sequence of Regex words - Fix: an issue with invalid characters in a wordlist - New: You can now order lists of words to give priority in highlighting if there are duplicate words ** New in 6.3.3 - Fix: Complete words are not always correctly highlighted ** New in 6.3.2 - Improved: Word breaking symbols list has been extended ** New in 6.3.1 - Fix: zip file issue when installing extension ** New in 6.3 - New: Better support for languages which have no spaces or punctuation between words - New: Better support for languages with diacritics - Fixed: Sync with Google Sheets has been fixed ** New in 6.2.3 - New: You can now put a border around input fields if there is a matching word inside ** New in 6.2.2 - Fixed: a performance issue ** New in 6.2.1 - Fixed: an issue with highlighting in shadow-root elements ** New in 6.2 - New : Improved performance on large webpages - Fixed: an issue whereby words could disappear while filtering the list of words ** New in 6.1 - New: Make backups automatically - New: Open clicks on highights in new window or current tab ** New in 6.0.10 - Fixed: an issue with highlighting of web components - Fixed: an issue with look behind regular expressions ** New in 6.0.9 - New: Now also highlighting in Shadow DOM ** New in 6.0.8 - Fixed: an issue whereby lists cannot be opened to edit - Fixed: an issue on LinkedIn jobs ** New in 6.0.6 - Fixed: highlighting on Single Page Apps - New: Form to send a bug to the developer ** New in 6.0.5 - Fixed: issue with corrupted synchronized lists which breaks the rendering of the lists ** New in 6.0.4 - Fixed: issue with restoring backups - New: ability to reset all data and settings ** New in 6.0.1 - Fixed: issue with transforming Synchronized lists ** New in 6.0.0 - Extra styles for highlighting : Bold, Italic, Underline - Ability to change highligting by selecting rounded corners, padding, shadow - Ability to define a zone on a page for highlighting - Switch to Manifest v3, which better protects user security - Subscriptions - Fixed: speed of editor - Fixed: various small issues with remote lists ** New in 5.3.6 - Fixed: an issue with scrolling to highlight tags ** New in 5.3.5 - Fixed: Performance issues ** New in 5.2 - Define click actions for highlighted words - Support for loading words from Google Sheets - Define download frequency for remote lists - Fixed: Negative reverse lookup regex - Fixed: Issue with Highlight overview - Fixed: Issue with download button ** New in 5.1 - Support for case sensitive matching - Manage words from context menu ** New in 5.0 - New editor to manage your words (filter, select, delete, move) - Support for Regex tokens ** Define words ** Easily specify words and phrases you want to be highlighted. ** Highlighting ** Highlights the words and phrases on the page Shows how many words have been highlighted ** Works on Ajax pages ** The extension detects changes to the page and re-highlights the words.
Technical
- Version
- 6.3.12
- Manifest
- V3
- Size
- 4.24MiB
- Min Chrome
- 88
- Languages
- 5
- Featured
- Yes
Metadata
- ID
- fgmbnmjmbjenlhbefngfibmjkpbcljaj
- Developer ID
- ue85d90215ea5b6a9f4db0ad3707fa09b
- Developer Email
- [email protected]
- Created
- Apr 27, 2014
- Last Updated (Store)
- Mar 22, 2026
- Last Scraped
- Jun 24, 2026
- Website
- highlightthis.net
- Support URL
- —
- Privacy Policy
- —
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