Best alternatives to Highlighter (2026)
10 Chrome extensions that do a similar job to Highlighter, closest first. Each shows real store users, its rating, how recently it was updated and how many permissions it asks for.
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Highlighter alternatives, compared
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Highlighter for Google Chrome™
Highlight your text right in the webpage.
≈40K users3.6★ from 14.4K ratingsNot updated for 3+ years2 permissions- About 40× more users than Highlighter
- Updated more recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (2 vs 3)
- Listed under Workflow & Planning
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Highlighter
Highlight selected text in webpages, add notes and visit the webpage again to see highlighted text and saved notes.
≈1K users4.7★ from 91 ratingsUpdated 11 months ago3 permissions- A similar number of users to Highlighter
- Rated 1.1 stars higher
- Updated more recently
- Listed under Workflow & Planning
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Highlighter
Highlight text on websites with a simple right-click or keyboard shortcut. Saves highlights on your device.
≈100K users3.5★ from 317 ratingsNot updated for 3+ years4 permissions- About 100× more users than Highlighter
- Rated 0.2 stars lower
- Updated more recently
- Asks for more permissions (4 vs 3)
- Listed under Workflow & Planning
- 4
Highlighter Plus
✨ A powerful text highlighter that helps you highlight and organize text. Perfect for research and study!
213 users5.0★ from 12 ratingsUpdated 23 months ago5 permissions- About 4.7× fewer users than Highlighter
- Updated more recently
- Asks for more permissions (5 vs 3)
- Listed under Workflow & Planning
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Tab Highlighter
This Chrome extension displays a custom message and color bar at the top of the screen based on the host of the open web page.…
175 users2.3★ from 4 ratings2 permissions- About 5.7× fewer users than Highlighter
- Asks for fewer permissions (2 vs 3)
- Listed under Tools
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Super Simple Highlighter
Make permanent, private highlights on any web page.
≈200K users4.0★ from 1.3K ratingsUpdated 5 months ago4 permissions- About 200× more users than Highlighter
- Rated 0.4 stars higher
- Updated more recently
- Asks for more permissions (4 vs 3)
- Listed under Workflow & Planning
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Cat Highlighter
Web highlights, annotations, page notes, and export tools for AI chats and web reading.
176 users5.0★ from 14 ratingsUpdated 8 weeks ago6 permissions- About 5.7× fewer users than Highlighter
- Updated more recently
- Asks for more permissions (6 vs 3)
- Listed under Tools
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Link Highlighter Pro
Highlight and scrape links from current page or entire website
≈2K users5.0★ from 4 ratingsUpdated 17 months ago4 permissions- About 2.0× more users than Highlighter
- Updated more recently
- Asks for more permissions (4 vs 3)
- Listed under Tools
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SERP-Highlighter
SERP-Highlighter!
218 users3.0★ from 4 ratingsNot updated for 3+ years3 permissions- About 4.6× fewer users than Highlighter
- Updated more recently
- Listed under Social Networking
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Highlighter Guru
Highlight and save text easily in Chrome! This extension helps you mark important stuff and store it neatly in folders for later.
112 users4.2★ from 11 ratingsUpdated 21 months ago5 permissions- About 8.9× fewer users than Highlighter
- Updated more recently
- Asks for more permissions (5 vs 3)
- Listed under Workflow & Planning
Highlighter alternatives: questions
What is the best alternative to Highlighter?
By users, the most popular alternative is Super Simple Highlighter with ≈200K users and a 4.0-star rating. The closest match by what it does is Highlighter for Google Chrome™.
Which Highlighter alternative has the best rating?
Highlighter has the highest rating of these alternatives with 50+ ratings: 4.7 out of 5 from 91 ratings.
Is there a Highlighter alternative that asks for fewer permissions?
Highlighter for Google Chrome™ asks for 2 permissions, against 3 for Highlighter.
How many alternatives to Highlighter are there?
We list 10 close alternatives to Highlighter on the Chrome Web Store, picked by what they do and ranked by how close they are.
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