Highlighty: Search, Find, Multi Highlight

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

Highlighty is a multi-keyword finder for Chrome — a Ctrl+F replacement that searches, highlights, and navigates multiple words at once on supported webpages. PDF search and highlighting are available during a trial or with PRO. Press Cmd/Ctrl+F on a supported page to launch Highlighty's built-in finder, with multi-query support, custom colors, and X-Ray navigation. RegExp is available during a trial or with PRO. Built for anyone who scans long documents, contracts, academic papers, or technical reports. Available for Chrome and other supported browsers. See our website for browser compatibility. 🔒 Privacy-first • PDF parsing, matching, and OCR run in the extension; local documents are not uploaded for these tasks • No remotely injected code • Ad-free, with a free plan and optional PRO subscription • Account, subscription, and some service functions can contact Highlighty’s servers; see our Privacy Policy ❗ATTENTION — please refresh all currently opened webpages after installing the extension. --- ⚙️ How it works 1. Open a supported website, or open a PDF in the PDF workspace during a trial or with PRO 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 a supported page to launch Highlighty's finder More tutorials and videos: https://highlighty.app/how-to-use https://highlighty.app/blog --- ✨ Features ✔️ PDF highlighter — during a trial or with PRO, use the dedicated PDF viewer to search, highlight, and navigate selectable-text PDFs. Password-protected PDFs are not currently supported ✔️ OCR for scanned PDFs — during a trial or with PRO, on-device English OCR recognizes text in scanned and image-only PDFs without uploading the documents; results depend on scan quality ✔️ Ctrl+F replacement — multi-query in-page finder with match navigation ✔️ Multi-keyword search — find and highlight multiple words at once on supported webpages ✔️ 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 — highlight matches in supported editors while you write ✔️ Highlight inside modern web-component inputs — find matches in supported embedded search, reply, and form controls ✔️ 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 spreadsheets within your plan’s limits ✔️ RegExp toggle for advanced patterns — available during a trial or with PRO ✔️ 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) ✔️ Saved query lists — the free plan includes two saved lists; trial and PRO offer expanded limits ✔️ Temporary deactivation of coloring ✔️ Custom keyboard shortcuts for navigation ✔️ Auto-focus on the search input --- ▸ Why Highlighty❓ • Free and ad-free — start with up to five active queries per list and two saved lists; an optional PRO subscription unlocks more features • Local PDF processing — documents stay in the extension during parsing, matching, and OCR • Multi-query Ctrl+F — search multiple keywords at once, apply custom colors, and filter by case, diacritics, or whole words • PDF support — highlight and search selectable-text PDFs during a trial or with PRO • X-Ray context minimap — surfaces matches hidden inside collapsed sections, tabs, accordions, or dynamic UI • Found / not-found notifications on supported websites • Works on supported dynamic and endless-scroll pages as new content appears • Larger query lists during a trial or with PRO — see current limits and pricing at https://highlighty.app/pricing • Advanced patterns — RegExp matching is available during a trial or with PRO • 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