Best alternatives to Web Annotator – Web Highlighter & Notes (2026)
10 Chrome extensions that do a similar job to Web Annotator, closest first. Each shows real store users, its rating, how recently it was updated and how many permissions it asks for.
Web Annotator – Web Highlighter & Notes today
Web Annotator alternatives, compared
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Annotator – Web Highlighter & Notes
Highlight text and add private notes on any website. Everything stays on your device.
293 users5.0★ from 3 ratingsUpdated 6 days ago7 permissions- About 3.4× fewer users than Web Annotator
- Asks for more permissions (7 vs 6)
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Web Highlighter - Highlight Text, Annotate & Take Notes with AI
Highlight & annotate any web page, save notes, and turn them into AI summaries, flashcards & quizzes. Free, private, no sign-up.
≈2K users4.5★ from 24 ratingsUpdated 2 months ago8 permissions- About 2.0× more users than Web Annotator
- Updated less recently
- Asks for more permissions (8 vs 6)
- Listed under Workflow & Planning
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Highlight Buddy - Highlighter & Notes
Highlight text on any website, add notes with comments, and manage everything in one dashboard.
102 users5.0★ from 4 ratingsUpdated 13 months ago5 permissions- About 9.8× fewer users than Web Annotator
- Updated less recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (5 vs 6)
- Listed under Workflow & Planning
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Notion Highlighter
A chrome extension for saving highlighs to your notion
253 users3.0★ from 2 ratings8 permissions- About 4.0× fewer users than Web Annotator
- Asks for more permissions (8 vs 6)
- Listed under Workflow & Planning
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Web Highlights: PDF & Web Highlighter + Notes & AI Summary
Productivity Highlighter & Annotation Tool for Websites & PDFs with AI Summary - free, easy to use, no sign-up required.
≈200K users4.8★ from 5.2K ratingsUpdated 3 days ago6 permissions- About 200× more users than Web Annotator
- 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 Web Annotator
- Updated less recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (4 vs 6)
- Listed under Workflow & Planning
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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 Web Annotator
- Updated less recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (2 vs 6)
- Listed under Workflow & Planning
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Footprints – Side Note,Web Highlighter, Annotation
a tool that helps you highlight text, add contextual notes, and record your thoughts directly on any webpage.
131 users4.3★ from 7 ratingsUpdated 8 months ago5 permissions- About 7.6× fewer users than Web Annotator
- Updated less recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (5 vs 6)
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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 Web Annotator
- Updated less recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (3 vs 6)
- Listed under Workflow & Planning
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markerNote - web, PDF highlighter & notes
Persistent PDF highlighter. Highlight text & insert into notes in markdown format. Auto-organize notes by date, domain. sync Gdrive
≈2K users4.2★ from 13 ratingsUpdated 19 months ago6 permissions- About 2.0× more users than Web Annotator
- Updated less recently
Web Annotator alternatives: questions
What is the best alternative to Web Annotator?
By users, the most popular alternative is Web Highlights: PDF & Web Highlighter + Notes & AI Summary with ≈200K users and a 4.8-star rating. The closest match by what it does is Annotator – Web Highlighter & Notes.
Which Web Annotator alternative has the best rating?
Web Highlights: PDF & Web Highlighter + Notes & AI Summary has the highest rating of these alternatives with 50+ ratings: 4.8 out of 5 from 5.2K ratings.
Is there a Web Annotator alternative that asks for fewer permissions?
Highlighter for Google Chrome™ asks for 2 permissions, against 6 for Web Annotator.
How many alternatives to Web Annotator are there?
We list 10 close alternatives to Web Annotator 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.