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Best alternatives to Selection Highlighter (2026)

10 Chrome extensions that do a similar job to Selection Highlighter, closest first. Each shows real store users, its rating, how recently it was updated and how many permissions it asks for.

Selection Highlighter: reviews, users and permissionsBest Developer Tools extensions

Selection Highlighter today

≈8K users4.5★ from 96 ratingsUpdated 5 months ago1 permissions

Selection Highlighter alternatives, compared

  1. 1

    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 13× more users than Selection Highlighter
    • Rated 1.0 stars lower
    • Updated less recently
    • Asks for more permissions (4 vs 1)
    • Listed under Workflow & Planning
    Highlighter alternativesCompare side by side
  2. 2

    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
    • About 8.0× fewer users than Selection Highlighter
    • Rated 0.3 stars higher
    • Updated less recently
    • Asks for more permissions (3 vs 1)
    • Listed under Workflow & Planning
    Highlighter alternativesCompare side by side
  3. 3

    Highlighter for Google Chrome™

    Highlight your text right in the webpage.

    ≈40K users3.6★ from 14.4K ratingsNot updated for 3+ years2 permissions
    • About 5.0× more users than Selection Highlighter
    • Rated 0.8 stars lower
    • Updated less recently
    • Asks for more permissions (2 vs 1)
    • Listed under Workflow & Planning
    Highlighter for Google Chrome™ alternativesCompare side by side
  4. 4

    Super Highlighter

    Highlight text on web page with a simple right-click and keyboard shortcut. Custom highlight color. Saves highlights on your device.

    ≈4K users4.0★ from 23 ratingsNot updated for 2+ years4 permissions
    • About 2.0× fewer users than Selection Highlighter
    • Rated 0.5 stars lower
    • Updated less recently
    • Asks for more permissions (4 vs 1)
    • Listed under Workflow & Planning
    Super Highlighter alternativesCompare side by side
  5. 5

    Search Highlighter

    Search and highlight keywords in any webpage via toolbar popup.

    ≈3K users2.9★ from 14 ratingsUpdated 7 weeks ago3 permissions
    • About 2.7× fewer users than Selection Highlighter
    • Updated more recently
    • Asks for more permissions (3 vs 1)
    • Listed under Tools
    Search Highlighter alternativesCompare side by side
  6. 6

    Super Simple Highlighter

    Make permanent, private highlights on any web page.

    ≈200K users4.0★ from 1.3K ratingsUpdated 5 months ago4 permissions
    • About 25× more users than Selection Highlighter
    • Rated 0.4 stars lower
    • Asks for more permissions (4 vs 1)
    • Listed under Workflow & Planning
    Super Simple Highlighter alternativesCompare side by side
  7. 7

    Highlighter

    Make creating ,viewing and managing highlight easier

    ≈1K users3.7★ from 25 ratingsNot updated for 5+ years3 permissions
    • About 8.0× fewer users than Selection Highlighter
    • Rated 0.8 stars lower
    • Updated less recently
    • Asks for more permissions (3 vs 1)
    • Listed under Accessibility
    Highlighter alternativesCompare side by side
  8. 8

    Link Highlighter Pro

    Highlight and scrape links from current page or entire website

    ≈2K users5.0★ from 4 ratingsUpdated 17 months ago4 permissions
    • About 4.0× fewer users than Selection Highlighter
    • Updated less recently
    • Asks for more permissions (4 vs 1)
    • Listed under Tools
    Link Highlighter Pro alternativesCompare side by side
  9. 9

    Sheets Row Highlighter

    Highlight a row (and column) of current cell in Google Sheets and Microsoft Excel Online.

    ≈80K users5.0★ from 137 ratingsNot updated for 2+ years2 permissions
    • About 10× more users than Selection Highlighter
    • Rated 0.5 stars higher
    • Updated less recently
    • Asks for more permissions (2 vs 1)
    • Listed under Tools
    Sheets Row Highlighter alternativesCompare side by side
  10. 10

    Auto Highlight

    Auto Highlight is text highlighter with RegExp support

    ≈30K users4.6★ from 104 ratingsNot updated for 2+ years6 permissions
    • About 3.8× more users than Selection Highlighter
    • Updated less recently
    • Asks for more permissions (6 vs 1)
    • Listed under Tools
    Auto Highlight alternativesCompare side by side

Selection Highlighter alternatives: questions

What is the best alternative to Selection 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.

Which Selection Highlighter alternative has the best rating?

Sheets Row Highlighter has the highest rating of these alternatives with 50+ ratings: 5.0 out of 5 from 137 ratings.

How many alternatives to Selection Highlighter are there?

We list 10 close alternatives to Selection Highlighter on the Chrome Web Store, picked by what they do and ranked by how close they are.

Users and ratings are the figures shown on the Chrome Web Store, re-checked continuously. Alternatives are matched on name, description, category and topic. Browse best-of lists by niche.