Highlighter

Local-first web highlighter for Microsoft Edge — no account, no tracking, data stays in your browser.

Free, with no feature locks and no in-app purchases in this version.

Watch the 51-second demo on YouTube — creating a highlight, adding a note, and seeing it restored in place after the page reloads.

Highlight, annotate, find later

Four colors; add a note to any highlight.
Select text to get a floating toolbar, or use the right-click menu.
Side panel lists all highlights grouped by page, with a color filter and full-text search (quote, note, page title, folder, tags). Click a highlight to jump back to its spot on the page.

Each highlight is restored by matching the quoted text plus a short snippet of surrounding context — not character offsets or XPath, which break when a page is edited.
If a highlight can no longer be located, it is never silently dropped: it stays in the side panel marked “not found”, and you can re-locate it by selecting the text on the page and clicking Bind.

Weava CSV import: a preview shows per-page counts plus duplicate and unusable-row tallies before anything is written. Imported highlights re-anchor when you open the page.
Export your data at any time to JSON, CSV, or Markdown. Your data is never held hostage.

No account, no sign-up. Highlights, notes and settings are stored only in your browser’s local storage (chrome.storage.local) and are never uploaded. The one exception is optional Pro activation: the license key you paste is sent to Gumroad (api.gumroad.com) to verify it — at activation and on a re-check about every 30 days — and nothing else is sent. If you never activate Pro, the extension makes no network requests at all.
No analytics, no tracking, no ads.

No PDF highlighting in this version.
It cannot run on browser-internal pages (chrome://, edge://), other extensions’ pages, or the extension stores themselves.
Re-anchoring is text matching, not magic: heavy rewrites may need a manual Bind.