Highlighty: Search, Find, Multi Highlight

Description

Searching and Multi Highlighting made effortless! It's the most efficient way to find and highlight any text on the web. 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 hey@highlighty.app — 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

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