Highlighty: Search, Find, Multi Highlight
Searching and Multi Highlighting made effortless! It's the most efficient way to find and highlight any text on the web.
As of June 2026, Highlighty: Search, Find, Multi Highlight has 10,000 users and a 4.05/5 rating from 62 reviews in the Productivity category.
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Version
2.4.7
Manifest V3
90-day change · In the last 90 days this extension 7 version updates, changed permissions.
History
12 snapshotsTracking since Apr 5, 2026.
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| Date | Users | Rating | Reviews | Version |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 5, 2026 | 10.0K | 4.00 | 60 | 2.3.9 |
| Apr 16, 2026 | 10.0K | 4.00 | 60 | 2.4.0 |
| Apr 22, 2026 | 10.0K | 3.98 | 59 | 2.4.2 |
| Apr 27, 2026 | 10.0K | 4.00 | 60 | 2.4.2 |
| May 7, 2026 | 10.0K | 4.00 | 61 | 2.4.2 |
| May 11, 2026 | 10.0K | 4.02 | 62 | 2.4.2 |
| May 14, 2026 | 10.0K | 4.02 | 62 | 2.4.3 |
| May 18, 2026 | 10.0K | 4.02 | 62 | 2.4.4 |
| May 21, 2026 | 20.0K | 4.03 | 63 | 2.4.5 |
| May 24, 2026 | 20.0K | 4.03 | 63 | 2.4.6 |
| May 27, 2026 | 20.0K | 4.03 | 63 | 2.4.7 |
| May 31, 2026 | 10.0K | 4.03 | 63 | 2.4.7 |
| Now | 10.0K | 4.05 | 62 | 2.4.7 |
Changelog
- May 21, 2026description
Highlighty is a free PDF highlighter and multi-keyword finder for Chrome — a smarter Ctrl+F replacement that searches, highlights, and navigates dozens of words at once across webpages and PDFs. Press Cmd/Ctrl+F on any page to launch Highlighty's built-in finder — faster and more powerful than the browser's default search, with multi-query support, custom colors, RegExp, and X-Ray navigation built in. Built for researchers, students, lawyers, analysts, journalists, recruiters, and anyone who scans long documents, contracts, academic papers, or technical reports. Works in Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera, and Arc. 🔒 Privacy-first • No user tracking of any kind • No remotely injected code • Ad-free, free forever ❗ATTENTION — please refresh all currently opened webpages after installing the extension. --- ⚙️ How it works 1. Open the website or PDF you want to search 2. Type your query into the Highlighty input 3. Watch for instant found / not-found notifications 4. Scroll through the highlighted matches 5. Or press Cmd/Ctrl+F on any page to launch Highlighty's finder instantly More tutorials and videos: https://highlighty.app/how-to-use https://highlighty.app/blog --- ✨ Features ✔️ PDF highlighter — dedicated PDF viewer for searching, highlighting, and navigating one or many selectable-text PDFs with the same queries, colors, and X-Ray workflow ✔️ Ctrl+F replacement — multi-query in-page finder that beats the browser's default Find on Page ✔️ Multi-keyword search — find and highlight multiple words at once on any webpage ✔️ X-Ray minimap — draggable context panel showing snippets around your matches, including matches hidden inside collapsed sections, tabs, and layered UI ✔️ Scrollbar markers — jump between highlighted matches at a glance ✔️ Custom colors — color picker, palette, and randomizer for every query ✔️ Adaptive text color — auto-contrast based on WCAG 2.0 for accessibility ✔️ Search analytics and visualization ✔️ Bulk import — load query lists from .xlsx (Excel, Google Sheets) ✔️ RegExp toggle for advanced patterns ✔️ Backup & restore — sync your queries between computers ✔️ Found-query counter badge on the extension icon ✔️ Download / upload query lists ✔️ Manual search mode with hotkey trigger ✔️ Compact list view ✔️ Highlight and search on text select ✔️ Large highlighted font option (up to 25px) ✔️ Unlimited saved query lists ✔️ Temporary deactivation of coloring ✔️ Custom keyboard shortcuts for navigation ✔️ Auto-focus on the search input --- ▸ Why Highlighty❓ • Free and ad-free — no subscriptions, no upsells, no telemetry • No tracking, no analytics, no remotely injected code • Smarter Ctrl+F — search multiple keywords at once, apply your custom colors, and respect every filter (case, diacritics, whole word, RegExp) — everything the browser's default Find can't do • PDF support — highlight and search inside selectable-text PDFs with the exact same workflow as on webpages • X-Ray context minimap — surfaces matches hidden inside collapsed sections, tabs, accordions, or dynamic UI • Instant found / not-found notifications on any website • Works on dynamic and endless-scroll pages — Facebook, LinkedIn, Reddit, X, YouTube comments, and more • Unlimited queries and unlimited saved query lists • Powerful filtering — diacritic sensitivity, case sensitivity, whole words, RegExp • Quick disable matches with hotkeys • Search by selecting any element on a website • Website whitelist and blacklist for scoping the extension • Fully optional — every feature can be turned off at any time • Keyboard-driven navigation that scrolls to the next match • Clean, friendly interface --- ▸ Use cases (not exhaustive) • Legal — contract review, case law research, due diligence, e-discovery • Academic — literature review, citation hunting, exam prep, thesis research • Research & analysis — financial reports, technical documentation, white papers, 10-Ks • Journalism — fact-checking, source scanning, document leaks • Recruiting — resume and CV keyword screening • SEO & marketing — keyword scanning on competitor sites and SERPs • QA & engineering — log file scanning, API documentation searches • Sales — prospect research, intent signal hunting --- ▸ Performance note Scanning very large webpages with many queries is CPU-intensive. Older machines may slow down with many tabs open simultaneously. --- 📨 Info / Contact [email protected] — feature requests and bug reports welcome ▸ Tutorials: https://highlighty.app/how-to-use ▸ FAQs: https://highlighty.app/faq ▸ Privacy Policy: https://highlighty.app/privacy ▸ Terms of Service: https://highlighty.app/terms
Highlighty is a free PDF highlighter and multi-keyword finder for Chrome — a smarter Ctrl+F replacement that searches, highlights, and navigates dozens of words at once across webpages and PDFs. Press Cmd/Ctrl+F on any page to launch Highlighty's built-in finder — faster and more powerful than the browser's default search, with multi-query support, custom colors, RegExp, and X-Ray navigation built in. Built for researchers, students, lawyers, analysts, journalists, recruiters, and anyone who scans long documents, contracts, academic papers, or technical reports. Works in Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera, and Arc. Also available on Firefox 109+. 🔒 Privacy-first • No user tracking of any kind • No remotely injected code • Ad-free, free forever ❗ATTENTION — please refresh all currently opened webpages after installing the extension. --- ⚙️ How it works 1. Open the website or PDF you want to search 2. Type your query into the Highlighty input 3. Watch for instant found / not-found notifications 4. Scroll through the highlighted matches 5. Or press Cmd/Ctrl+F on any page to launch Highlighty's finder instantly More tutorials and videos: https://highlighty.app/how-to-use https://highlighty.app/blog --- ✨ Features ✔️ PDF highlighter — dedicated PDF viewer for searching, highlighting, and navigating one or many selectable-text PDFs with the same queries, colors, and X-Ray workflow ✔️ OCR for scanned PDFs — on-device English OCR makes scanned and image-only PDFs searchable, with no upload to any server ✔️ Ctrl+F replacement — multi-query in-page finder that beats the browser's default Find on Page ✔️ Multi-keyword search — find and highlight multiple words at once on any webpage ✔️ Highlight inside text inputs and textareas — your saved-query matches also light up inside form fields as you type, without ever modifying the field's real value (copy, paste, undo, form submission all see the literal text) ✔️ Highlight inside rich-text editors — Lexical (Reddit composer), ProseMirror, Tiptap, Monaco, CodeMirror, Quill, Notion, and any contenteditable surface, painted via the browser's native Custom Highlight API so the editor's own behaviour is never disturbed ✔️ Highlight inside modern web-component inputs — Reddit's navbar search and reply controls, Material Web text fields, and other shadow-DOM-based form controls are now in scope ✔️ X-Ray minimap — draggable context panel showing snippets around your matches, including matches hidden inside collapsed sections, tabs, and layered UI ✔️ Scrollbar markers — jump between highlighted matches at a glance ✔️ Custom colors — color picker, palette, and randomizer for every query ✔️ Adaptive text color — auto-contrast based on WCAG 2.0 for accessibility ✔️ Search analytics and visualization ✔️ Bulk import — load query lists from .xlsx (Excel, Google Sheets) ✔️ RegExp toggle for advanced patterns ✔️ Backup & restore — sync your queries between computers ✔️ Found-query counter badge on the extension icon ✔️ Download / upload query lists ✔️ Manual search mode with hotkey trigger ✔️ Compact list view ✔️ Highlight and search on text select ✔️ Large highlighted font option (up to 25px) ✔️ Unlimited saved query lists ✔️ Temporary deactivation of coloring ✔️ Custom keyboard shortcuts for navigation ✔️ Auto-focus on the search input --- ▸ Why Highlighty❓ • Free and ad-free — no subscriptions, no upsells, no telemetry • No tracking, no analytics, no remotely injected code • Smarter Ctrl+F — search multiple keywords at once, apply your custom colors, and respect every filter (case, diacritics, whole word, RegExp) — everything the browser's default Find can't do • PDF support — highlight and search inside selectable-text PDFs with the exact same workflow as on webpages • X-Ray context minimap — surfaces matches hidden inside collapsed sections, tabs, accordions, or dynamic UI • Instant found / not-found notifications on any website • Works on dynamic and endless-scroll pages — Facebook, LinkedIn, Reddit, X, YouTube comments, and more • Unlimited queries and unlimited saved query lists • Powerful filtering — diacritic sensitivity, case sensitivity, whole words, RegExp • Quick disable matches with hotkeys • Search by selecting any element on a website • Website whitelist and blacklist for scoping the extension • Fully optional — every feature can be turned off at any time • Keyboard-driven navigation that scrolls to the next match • Clean, friendly interface --- ▸ Use cases • Legal — contract review, case law research, due diligence, e-discovery • Academic — literature review, citation hunting, exam prep, thesis research • Research & analysis — financial reports, technical documentation, white papers, 10-Ks • Journalism — fact-checking, source scanning, document leaks • Recruiting — resume and CV keyword screening • SEO & marketing — keyword scanning on competitor sites and SERPs • QA & engineering — log file scanning, API documentation searches • Sales — prospect research, intent signal hunting --- ▸ Performance note Scanning very large webpages with many queries is CPU-intensive. Older machines may slow down with many tabs open simultaneously. --- 📨 Info / Contact [email protected] — feature requests and bug reports welcome ▸ Tutorials: https://highlighty.app/how-to-use ▸ FAQs https://highlighty.app/faq ▸ Privacy Policy: https://highlighty.app/privacy ▸ Terms of Service: https://highlighty.app/terms
- May 14, 2026description
An easy-to-use multi finder, multi highlighter, and navigator browser extension with powerful searching functionalities to enhance your productivity across webpages and PDFs. Use numerous filtering options, set unique colors, and enjoy searches without language limits. With Highlighty, you'll get instant notifications about found or not found search queries on webpages and in selectable-text PDFs. Now also includes a dedicated PDF viewer for searching, highlighting, and navigating one or more PDFs with the same Highlighty queries, colors, and X-Ray workflow. Press Cmd/Ctrl+F to open Highlighty's built-in finder — a faster, smarter replacement for the browser's default search that works across webpages and PDFs with all your saved queries, colors, and filters. - Privacy-first approach - No user tracking of any kind - No remotely injected code - Ad-free experience ❗ATTENTION❗ Please refresh all your currently opened webpages after installing the extension. --- ⚙️ How it works (simplest) : 1. Navigate the browser to the website/websites you wish to search on 2. Use the text field of the extension to introduce your query 3. Pay attention to the notifications shown by Highlighty 4. If the query/queries have been found, scroll through the website to see the results 5. Or simply press Cmd/Ctrl+F on any page to launch Highlighty's finder instantly More information and video tutorials about the features: https://highlighty.app/how-to-use https://highlighty.app/blog ✔️ Cmd/Ctrl+F finder — instant in-page search with multi-query, color highlighting, and X-Ray navigation built in ✔️ Dedicated PDF viewer for searching, highlighting, and navigating multiple selectable-text PDFs ✔️ Accessibility enhancing text decoration with colors ✔️ X-Ray shows match context in a draggable minimap for faster scanning and navigation. ✔️ Scrollbar Markers (Navigate Highlighted Content with Ease) ✔️ Adaptive text color based on WCAG 2.0 specification ✔️ Search analytics, visualisation ✔️ Bulk .xlsx (Excel, Google Sheets) file import ✔️ RegExp query toggler ✔️ Backup & restore (sync with another computer) ✔️ Sum of found queries on extension icon ✔️ Download/upload queries ✔️ Manual search mode with hotkey function ✔️ Compact list view ✔️ Highlight and search on word select ✔️ Found query font size change to 25px ✔️ Saving infinite query lists ✔️ Temporary deactivation of coloring ✔️ Focus extension input on open ✔️ Navigation custom key setup ✔️ Color picker, color palette, color randomizer ▸ Why Highlighty❓ • NO TRACKING/ANALYTICS OF ANY KIND • ADS-FREE • Cmd/Ctrl+F shortcut opens an upgraded finder that searches multiple queries at once, applies your custom colors, and respects all your filters (case, diacritics, whole word, RegExp) everything the browser's default Find can't do. • X-Ray adds a draggable context minimap that shows snippets around your matches, surfaces matches hidden inside collapsed sections, tabs, or layered page UI. • Instant notification about found or not found queries on any website. • Found query counter on extension badge • Quick disable matches through hotkeys • Search query by selecting element on website • Customly assigned colors for the queries with color picker • Works on dynamic (endless) pages like Facebook, LinkedIn, Reddit, etc. It's automatically searching for new queries • Unlimited queries • Many filtering features. (Diacritic sensitivity, Case sensitivity, find only Complete words, etc.) • Full compliance with privacy and data security • Website whitelist and blacklist for limiting the extension's scope. • Multiple saved query lists • A highly flexible tool. All the settings are optional, you can turn every function off anytime you wish to • Quick-find function achieved by keyboard buttons. The extension will scroll to the found queries on the currently active website • An easy-to-use, friendly interface makes searching a pleasure ------------------- ▸ Scanning big webpages with excessive amount of queries, is a CPU intensive task. Older computers may lag if multiple tabs are open at the same time. 📨 Info / Contact Us: [email protected] - Send your requests and bug reports here. We appreciate your contribution! ▸ Tutorials: https://highlighty.app/how-to-use ▸ FAQs: https://highlighty.app/faq ▸ Privacy Policy: https://highlighty.app/privacy ▸ Terms of Service: https://highlighty.app/terms
Highlighty is a free PDF highlighter and multi-keyword finder for Chrome — a smarter Ctrl+F replacement that searches, highlights, and navigates dozens of words at once across webpages and PDFs. Press Cmd/Ctrl+F on any page to launch Highlighty's built-in finder — faster and more powerful than the browser's default search, with multi-query support, custom colors, RegExp, and X-Ray navigation built in. Built for researchers, students, lawyers, analysts, journalists, recruiters, and anyone who scans long documents, contracts, academic papers, or technical reports. Works in Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera, and Arc. 🔒 Privacy-first • No user tracking of any kind • No remotely injected code • Ad-free, free forever ❗ATTENTION — please refresh all currently opened webpages after installing the extension. --- ⚙️ How it works 1. Open the website or PDF you want to search 2. Type your query into the Highlighty input 3. Watch for instant found / not-found notifications 4. Scroll through the highlighted matches 5. Or press Cmd/Ctrl+F on any page to launch Highlighty's finder instantly More tutorials and videos: https://highlighty.app/how-to-use https://highlighty.app/blog --- ✨ Features ✔️ PDF highlighter — dedicated PDF viewer for searching, highlighting, and navigating one or many selectable-text PDFs with the same queries, colors, and X-Ray workflow ✔️ Ctrl+F replacement — multi-query in-page finder that beats the browser's default Find on Page ✔️ Multi-keyword search — find and highlight multiple words at once on any webpage ✔️ X-Ray minimap — draggable context panel showing snippets around your matches, including matches hidden inside collapsed sections, tabs, and layered UI ✔️ Scrollbar markers — jump between highlighted matches at a glance ✔️ Custom colors — color picker, palette, and randomizer for every query ✔️ Adaptive text color — auto-contrast based on WCAG 2.0 for accessibility ✔️ Search analytics and visualization ✔️ Bulk import — load query lists from .xlsx (Excel, Google Sheets) ✔️ RegExp toggle for advanced patterns ✔️ Backup & restore — sync your queries between computers ✔️ Found-query counter badge on the extension icon ✔️ Download / upload query lists ✔️ Manual search mode with hotkey trigger ✔️ Compact list view ✔️ Highlight and search on text select ✔️ Large highlighted font option (up to 25px) ✔️ Unlimited saved query lists ✔️ Temporary deactivation of coloring ✔️ Custom keyboard shortcuts for navigation ✔️ Auto-focus on the search input --- ▸ Why Highlighty❓ • Free and ad-free — no subscriptions, no upsells, no telemetry • No tracking, no analytics, no remotely injected code • Smarter Ctrl+F — search multiple keywords at once, apply your custom colors, and respect every filter (case, diacritics, whole word, RegExp) — everything the browser's default Find can't do • PDF support — highlight and search inside selectable-text PDFs with the exact same workflow as on webpages • X-Ray context minimap — surfaces matches hidden inside collapsed sections, tabs, accordions, or dynamic UI • Instant found / not-found notifications on any website • Works on dynamic and endless-scroll pages — Facebook, LinkedIn, Reddit, X, YouTube comments, and more • Unlimited queries and unlimited saved query lists • Powerful filtering — diacritic sensitivity, case sensitivity, whole words, RegExp • Quick disable matches with hotkeys • Search by selecting any element on a website • Website whitelist and blacklist for scoping the extension • Fully optional — every feature can be turned off at any time • Keyboard-driven navigation that scrolls to the next match • Clean, friendly interface --- ▸ Use cases (not exhaustive) • Legal — contract review, case law research, due diligence, e-discovery • Academic — literature review, citation hunting, exam prep, thesis research • Research & analysis — financial reports, technical documentation, white papers, 10-Ks • Journalism — fact-checking, source scanning, document leaks • Recruiting — resume and CV keyword screening • SEO & marketing — keyword scanning on competitor sites and SERPs • QA & engineering — log file scanning, API documentation searches • Sales — prospect research, intent signal hunting --- ▸ Performance note Scanning very large webpages with many queries is CPU-intensive. Older machines may slow down with many tabs open simultaneously. --- 📨 Info / Contact [email protected] — feature requests and bug reports welcome ▸ Tutorials: https://highlighty.app/how-to-use ▸ FAQs: https://highlighty.app/faq ▸ Privacy Policy: https://highlighty.app/privacy ▸ Terms of Service: https://highlighty.app/terms
- May 11, 2026description
An easy-to-use multi finder, multi highlighter, and navigator browser extension with powerful searching functionalities to enhance your productivity across webpages and PDFs. Use numerous filtering options, set unique colors, and enjoy searches without language limits. With Highlighty, you'll get instant notifications about found or not found search queries on webpages and in selectable-text PDFs. Now also includes a dedicated PDF viewer for searching, highlighting, and navigating one or more PDFs with the same Highlighty queries, colors, and X-Ray workflow. - Privacy-first approach - No user tracking of any kind - No remotely injected code - Ad-free experience ❗ATTENTION❗ Please refresh all your currently opened webpages after installing the extension. --- ⚙️ How it works (simplest) : 1. Navigate the browser to the website/websites you wish to search on 2. Use the text field of the extension to introduce your query 3. Pay attention to the notifications shown by Highlighty 4. If the query/queries have been found, scroll through the website to see the results More information and video tutorials about the features: https://highlighty.app/how-to-use https://highlighty.app/blog ✔️ Dedicated PDF viewer for searching, highlighting, and navigating multiple selectable-text PDFs ✔️ Accessibility enhancing text decoration with colors ✔️ X-Ray shows match context in a draggable minimap for faster scanning and navigation. ✔️ Scrollbar Markers (Navigate Highlighted Content with Ease) ✔️ Adaptive text color based on WCAG 2.0 specification ✔️ Search analytics, visualisation ✔️ Bulk .xlsx (Excel, Google Sheets) file import ✔️ RegExp query toggler ✔️ Backup & restore (sync with another computer) ✔️ Sum of found queries on extension icon ✔️ Download/upload queries ✔️ Manual search mode with hotkey function ✔️ Compact list view ✔️ Highlight and search on word select ✔️ Found query font size change to 25px ✔️ Saving infinite query lists ✔️ Temporary deactivation of coloring ✔️ Focus extension input on open ✔️ Navigation custom key setup ✔️ Color picker, color palette, color randomizer ▸ Why Highlighty❓ • NO TRACKING/ANALYTICS OF ANY KIND • ADS-FREE • X-Ray adds a draggable context minimap that shows snippets around your matches, surfaces matches hidden inside collapsed sections, tabs, or layered page UI. • Instant notification about found or not found queries on any website. • Found query counter on extension badge • Quick disable matches through hotkeys • Search query by selecting element on website • Customly assigned colors for the queries with color picker • Works on dynamic (endless) pages like Facebook, LinkedIn, Reddit, etc. It's automatically searching for new queries • Unlimited queries • Many filtering features. (Diacritic sensitivity, Case sensitivity, find only Complete words, etc.) • Full compliance with privacy and data security • Website whitelist and blacklist for limiting the extension's scope. • Multiple saved query lists • A highly flexible tool. All the settings are optional, you can turn every function off anytime you wish to • Quick-find function achieved by keyboard buttons. The extension will scroll to the found queries on the currently active website • An easy-to-use, friendly interface makes searching a pleasure ------------------- ▸ Scanning big webpages with excessive amount of queries, is a CPU intensive task. Older computers may lag if multiple tabs are open at the same time. 📨 Info / Contact Us: [email protected] - Send your requests and bug reports here. We appreciate your contribution! ▸ Tutorials: https://highlighty.app/how-to-use ▸ FAQs: https://highlighty.app/faq ▸ Privacy Policy: https://highlighty.app/privacy ▸ Terms of Service: https://highlighty.app/terms
An easy-to-use multi finder, multi highlighter, and navigator browser extension with powerful searching functionalities to enhance your productivity across webpages and PDFs. Use numerous filtering options, set unique colors, and enjoy searches without language limits. With Highlighty, you'll get instant notifications about found or not found search queries on webpages and in selectable-text PDFs. Now also includes a dedicated PDF viewer for searching, highlighting, and navigating one or more PDFs with the same Highlighty queries, colors, and X-Ray workflow. Press Cmd/Ctrl+F to open Highlighty's built-in finder — a faster, smarter replacement for the browser's default search that works across webpages and PDFs with all your saved queries, colors, and filters. - Privacy-first approach - No user tracking of any kind - No remotely injected code - Ad-free experience ❗ATTENTION❗ Please refresh all your currently opened webpages after installing the extension. --- ⚙️ How it works (simplest) : 1. Navigate the browser to the website/websites you wish to search on 2. Use the text field of the extension to introduce your query 3. Pay attention to the notifications shown by Highlighty 4. If the query/queries have been found, scroll through the website to see the results 5. Or simply press Cmd/Ctrl+F on any page to launch Highlighty's finder instantly More information and video tutorials about the features: https://highlighty.app/how-to-use https://highlighty.app/blog ✔️ Cmd/Ctrl+F finder — instant in-page search with multi-query, color highlighting, and X-Ray navigation built in ✔️ Dedicated PDF viewer for searching, highlighting, and navigating multiple selectable-text PDFs ✔️ Accessibility enhancing text decoration with colors ✔️ X-Ray shows match context in a draggable minimap for faster scanning and navigation. ✔️ Scrollbar Markers (Navigate Highlighted Content with Ease) ✔️ Adaptive text color based on WCAG 2.0 specification ✔️ Search analytics, visualisation ✔️ Bulk .xlsx (Excel, Google Sheets) file import ✔️ RegExp query toggler ✔️ Backup & restore (sync with another computer) ✔️ Sum of found queries on extension icon ✔️ Download/upload queries ✔️ Manual search mode with hotkey function ✔️ Compact list view ✔️ Highlight and search on word select ✔️ Found query font size change to 25px ✔️ Saving infinite query lists ✔️ Temporary deactivation of coloring ✔️ Focus extension input on open ✔️ Navigation custom key setup ✔️ Color picker, color palette, color randomizer ▸ Why Highlighty❓ • NO TRACKING/ANALYTICS OF ANY KIND • ADS-FREE • Cmd/Ctrl+F shortcut opens an upgraded finder that searches multiple queries at once, applies your custom colors, and respects all your filters (case, diacritics, whole word, RegExp) everything the browser's default Find can't do. • X-Ray adds a draggable context minimap that shows snippets around your matches, surfaces matches hidden inside collapsed sections, tabs, or layered page UI. • Instant notification about found or not found queries on any website. • Found query counter on extension badge • Quick disable matches through hotkeys • Search query by selecting element on website • Customly assigned colors for the queries with color picker • Works on dynamic (endless) pages like Facebook, LinkedIn, Reddit, etc. It's automatically searching for new queries • Unlimited queries • Many filtering features. (Diacritic sensitivity, Case sensitivity, find only Complete words, etc.) • Full compliance with privacy and data security • Website whitelist and blacklist for limiting the extension's scope. • Multiple saved query lists • A highly flexible tool. All the settings are optional, you can turn every function off anytime you wish to • Quick-find function achieved by keyboard buttons. The extension will scroll to the found queries on the currently active website • An easy-to-use, friendly interface makes searching a pleasure ------------------- ▸ Scanning big webpages with excessive amount of queries, is a CPU intensive task. Older computers may lag if multiple tabs are open at the same time. 📨 Info / Contact Us: [email protected] - Send your requests and bug reports here. We appreciate your contribution! ▸ Tutorials: https://highlighty.app/how-to-use ▸ FAQs: https://highlighty.app/faq ▸ Privacy Policy: https://highlighty.app/privacy ▸ Terms of Service: https://highlighty.app/terms
- Apr 16, 2026description
An easy-to-use multi finder, multi highlighter, and navigator browser extension with powerful searching functionalities to enhance your productivity. Use numerous filtering options, set unique colors, and enjoy searches without language limits. With Highlighty, you'll get instant notifications about the found or not found search queries on every webpage you search on. - Privacy-first approach - No user tracking of any kind - No remotely injected code - Ad-free experience ❗ATTENTION❗ Please refresh all your currently opened webpages after installing the extension. --- ⚙️ How it works (simplest) : 1. Navigate the browser to the website/websites you wish to search on 2. Use the text field of the extension to introduce your query 3. Pay attention to the notifications shown by Highlighty 4. If the query/queries have been found, scroll through the website to see the results More information and video tutorials about the features: https://highlighty.app/how-to-use https://highlighty.app/blog ✔️ Accessibility enhancing text decoration with colors ✔️ X-Ray shows match context in a draggable minimap for faster scanning and navigation. ✔️ Scrollbar Markers (Navigate Highlighted Content with Ease) ✔️ Adaptive text color based on WCAG 2.0 specification ✔️ Search analytics, visualisation ✔️ Bulk .xlsx (Excel, Google Sheets) file import ✔️ RegExp query toggler ✔️ Backup & restore (sync with another computer) ✔️ Sum of found queries on extension icon ✔️ Download/upload queries ✔️ Manual search mode with hotkey function ✔️ Compact list view ✔️ Highlight and search on word select ✔️ Found query font size change to 25px ✔️ Saving infinite query lists ✔️ Temporary deactivation of coloring ✔️ Focus extension input on open ✔️ Navigation custom key setup ✔️ Color picker, color palette, color randomizer ▸ Why Highlighty❓ • NO TRACKING/ANALYTICS OF ANY KIND • ADS-FREE • X-Ray adds a draggable context minimap that shows snippets around your matches, surfaces matches hidden inside collapsed sections, tabs, or layered page UI. • Instant notification about found or not found queries on any website. • Found query counter on extension badge • Quick disable matches through hotkeys • Search query by selecting element on website • Customly assigned colors for the queries with color picker • Works on dynamic (endless) pages like Facebook, LinkedIn, Reddit, etc. It's automatically searching for new queries • Unlimited queries • Many filtering features. (Diacritic sensitivity, Case sensitivity, find only Complete words, etc.) • Full compliance with privacy and data security • Website whitelist and blacklist for limiting the extension's scope. • Multiple saved query lists • A highly flexible tool. All the settings are optional, you can turn every function off anytime you wish to • Quick-find function achieved by keyboard buttons. The extension will scroll to the found queries on the currently active website • An easy-to-use, friendly interface makes searching a pleasure ------------------- ▸ Scanning big webpages with excessive amount of queries, is a CPU intensive task. Older computers may lag if multiple tabs are open at the same time. 📨 Info / Contact Us: [email protected] - Send your requests and bug reports here. We appreciate your contribution! ▸ Tutorials: https://highlighty.app/how-to-use ▸ FAQs: https://highlighty.app/faq ▸ Privacy Policy: https://highlighty.app/privacy ▸ Terms of Service: https://highlighty.app/terms
An easy-to-use multi finder, multi highlighter, and navigator browser extension with powerful searching functionalities to enhance your productivity across webpages and PDFs. Use numerous filtering options, set unique colors, and enjoy searches without language limits. With Highlighty, you'll get instant notifications about found or not found search queries on webpages and in selectable-text PDFs. Now also includes a dedicated PDF viewer for searching, highlighting, and navigating one or more PDFs with the same Highlighty queries, colors, and X-Ray workflow. - Privacy-first approach - No user tracking of any kind - No remotely injected code - Ad-free experience ❗ATTENTION❗ Please refresh all your currently opened webpages after installing the extension. --- ⚙️ How it works (simplest) : 1. Navigate the browser to the website/websites you wish to search on 2. Use the text field of the extension to introduce your query 3. Pay attention to the notifications shown by Highlighty 4. If the query/queries have been found, scroll through the website to see the results More information and video tutorials about the features: https://highlighty.app/how-to-use https://highlighty.app/blog ✔️ Dedicated PDF viewer for searching, highlighting, and navigating multiple selectable-text PDFs ✔️ Accessibility enhancing text decoration with colors ✔️ X-Ray shows match context in a draggable minimap for faster scanning and navigation. ✔️ Scrollbar Markers (Navigate Highlighted Content with Ease) ✔️ Adaptive text color based on WCAG 2.0 specification ✔️ Search analytics, visualisation ✔️ Bulk .xlsx (Excel, Google Sheets) file import ✔️ RegExp query toggler ✔️ Backup & restore (sync with another computer) ✔️ Sum of found queries on extension icon ✔️ Download/upload queries ✔️ Manual search mode with hotkey function ✔️ Compact list view ✔️ Highlight and search on word select ✔️ Found query font size change to 25px ✔️ Saving infinite query lists ✔️ Temporary deactivation of coloring ✔️ Focus extension input on open ✔️ Navigation custom key setup ✔️ Color picker, color palette, color randomizer ▸ Why Highlighty❓ • NO TRACKING/ANALYTICS OF ANY KIND • ADS-FREE • X-Ray adds a draggable context minimap that shows snippets around your matches, surfaces matches hidden inside collapsed sections, tabs, or layered page UI. • Instant notification about found or not found queries on any website. • Found query counter on extension badge • Quick disable matches through hotkeys • Search query by selecting element on website • Customly assigned colors for the queries with color picker • Works on dynamic (endless) pages like Facebook, LinkedIn, Reddit, etc. It's automatically searching for new queries • Unlimited queries • Many filtering features. (Diacritic sensitivity, Case sensitivity, find only Complete words, etc.) • Full compliance with privacy and data security • Website whitelist and blacklist for limiting the extension's scope. • Multiple saved query lists • A highly flexible tool. All the settings are optional, you can turn every function off anytime you wish to • Quick-find function achieved by keyboard buttons. The extension will scroll to the found queries on the currently active website • An easy-to-use, friendly interface makes searching a pleasure ------------------- ▸ Scanning big webpages with excessive amount of queries, is a CPU intensive task. Older computers may lag if multiple tabs are open at the same time. 📨 Info / Contact Us: [email protected] - Send your requests and bug reports here. We appreciate your contribution! ▸ Tutorials: https://highlighty.app/how-to-use ▸ FAQs: https://highlighty.app/faq ▸ Privacy Policy: https://highlighty.app/privacy ▸ Terms of Service: https://highlighty.app/terms
- Apr 16, 2026host_permissions
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- Apr 16, 2026permissions
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Permissions & access
- Permissions
- storageunlimitedStorageactiveTab
- Host access
- http://*/*, https://*/*, file:///*
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About
Highlighty is a free PDF highlighter and multi-keyword finder for Chrome — a smarter Ctrl+F replacement that searches, highlights, and navigates dozens of words at once across webpages and PDFs. Press Cmd/Ctrl+F on any page to launch Highlighty's built-in finder — faster and more powerful than the browser's default search, with multi-query support, custom colors, RegExp, and X-Ray navigation built in. Built for researchers, students, lawyers, analysts, journalists, recruiters, and anyone who scans long documents, contracts, academic papers, or technical reports. Works in Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera, and Arc. Also available on Firefox 109+. 🔒 Privacy-first • No user tracking of any kind • No remotely injected code • Ad-free, free forever ❗ATTENTION — please refresh all currently opened webpages after installing the extension. --- ⚙️ How it works 1. Open the website or PDF you want to search 2. Type your query into the Highlighty input 3. Watch for instant found / not-found notifications 4. Scroll through the highlighted matches 5. Or press Cmd/Ctrl+F on any page to launch Highlighty's finder instantly More tutorials and videos: https://highlighty.app/how-to-use https://highlighty.app/blog --- ✨ Features ✔️ PDF highlighter — dedicated PDF viewer for searching, highlighting, and navigating one or many selectable-text PDFs with the same queries, colors, and X-Ray workflow ✔️ OCR for scanned PDFs — on-device English OCR makes scanned and image-only PDFs searchable, with no upload to any server ✔️ Ctrl+F replacement — multi-query in-page finder that beats the browser's default Find on Page ✔️ Multi-keyword search — find and highlight multiple words at once on any webpage ✔️ Highlight inside text inputs and textareas — your saved-query matches also light up inside form fields as you type, without ever modifying the field's real value (copy, paste, undo, form submission all see the literal text) ✔️ Highlight inside rich-text editors — Lexical (Reddit composer), ProseMirror, Tiptap, Monaco, CodeMirror, Quill, Notion, and any contenteditable surface, painted via the browser's native Custom Highlight API so the editor's own behaviour is never disturbed ✔️ Highlight inside modern web-component inputs — Reddit's navbar search and reply controls, Material Web text fields, and other shadow-DOM-based form controls are now in scope ✔️ X-Ray minimap — draggable context panel showing snippets around your matches, including matches hidden inside collapsed sections, tabs, and layered UI ✔️ Scrollbar markers — jump between highlighted matches at a glance ✔️ Custom colors — color picker, palette, and randomizer for every query ✔️ Adaptive text color — auto-contrast based on WCAG 2.0 for accessibility ✔️ Search analytics and visualization ✔️ Bulk import — load query lists from .xlsx (Excel, Google Sheets) ✔️ RegExp toggle for advanced patterns ✔️ Backup & restore — sync your queries between computers ✔️ Found-query counter badge on the extension icon ✔️ Download / upload query lists ✔️ Manual search mode with hotkey trigger ✔️ Compact list view ✔️ Highlight and search on text select ✔️ Large highlighted font option (up to 25px) ✔️ Unlimited saved query lists ✔️ Temporary deactivation of coloring ✔️ Custom keyboard shortcuts for navigation ✔️ Auto-focus on the search input --- ▸ Why Highlighty❓ • Free and ad-free — no subscriptions, no upsells, no telemetry • No tracking, no analytics, no remotely injected code • Smarter Ctrl+F — search multiple keywords at once, apply your custom colors, and respect every filter (case, diacritics, whole word, RegExp) — everything the browser's default Find can't do • PDF support — highlight and search inside selectable-text PDFs with the exact same workflow as on webpages • X-Ray context minimap — surfaces matches hidden inside collapsed sections, tabs, accordions, or dynamic UI • Instant found / not-found notifications on any website • Works on dynamic and endless-scroll pages — Facebook, LinkedIn, Reddit, X, YouTube comments, and more • Unlimited queries and unlimited saved query lists • Powerful filtering — diacritic sensitivity, case sensitivity, whole words, RegExp • Quick disable matches with hotkeys • Search by selecting any element on a website • Website whitelist and blacklist for scoping the extension • Fully optional — every feature can be turned off at any time • Keyboard-driven navigation that scrolls to the next match • Clean, friendly interface --- ▸ Use cases • Legal — contract review, case law research, due diligence, e-discovery • Academic — literature review, citation hunting, exam prep, thesis research • Research & analysis — financial reports, technical documentation, white papers, 10-Ks • Journalism — fact-checking, source scanning, document leaks • Recruiting — resume and CV keyword screening • SEO & marketing — keyword scanning on competitor sites and SERPs • QA & engineering — log file scanning, API documentation searches • Sales — prospect research, intent signal hunting --- ▸ Performance note Scanning very large webpages with many queries is CPU-intensive. Older machines may slow down with many tabs open simultaneously. --- 📨 Info / Contact [email protected] — feature requests and bug reports welcome ▸ Tutorials: https://highlighty.app/how-to-use ▸ FAQs https://highlighty.app/faq ▸ Privacy Policy: https://highlighty.app/privacy ▸ Terms of Service: https://highlighty.app/terms
Technical
- Version
- 2.4.7
- Manifest
- V3
- Size
- 33.49MiB
- Min Chrome
- 88
- Languages
- 1
- Featured
- Yes
Metadata
- ID
- migdhldfbapmodfbmgpofnikfbfpbbon
- Developer ID
- u53249552c59028205ed447afed22119d
- Developer Email
- [email protected]
- Created
- Oct 19, 2020
- Last Updated (Store)
- May 22, 2026
- Last Scraped
- Jun 18, 2026
- Website
- https://www.highlighty.app/
- Support URL
- https://highlighty.app/support-redirect
- Privacy Policy
- https://www.highlighty.app/privacy
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