Highlightly is a web highlighter for Chrome. Highlight text on any page or PDF, add notes, search one library, then summarize with AI and send it straight to Notion or Claude. No login, and your highlights never disappear.
Built for students, researchers, and writers who highlight to learn, then need to actually use what they read.
Text-quote matching with prefix, suffix, and position fallback re-anchors every highlight, so it survives re-renders and minor page edits. No more lost highlights when you come back.
Highlight on any website in a single click, with four colors you can rename and trigger by keyboard shortcut, plus a right-click "Highlight selection." No account and no setup, ever.
One searchable library with full-text search across both the highlighted text and your notes, plus tags and on-page navigation to jump between every highlight on a page.
Turn a page's highlights into clean bullet points, then send them to Notion or a Markdown file, or copy them formatted and ready to paste into Claude or ChatGPT. Three summaries are free.
Highlight PDFs with the same anchoring engine as web pages, and keep every PDF and web highlight, note, and tag together in one place you can search.
Your highlights live on your device. Cloud sync is opt-in and encrypted, you can delete all your data in one click, and you cancel Pro yourself anytime.
The big highlighters keep tripping on the same things: lost highlights, surprise paywalls, and billing you cannot cancel. Highlightly fixes those by design.
Robust re-anchoring means your highlights come back when you revisit a page, instead of quietly vanishing like users report with other extensions.
Highlighting, notes, library, and export never cost anything, and we never lock highlights you already saved. AI is the only paid part, and we say so up front.
Manage everything in the Stripe billing portal. No emails, no app to download, and no 100-question onboarding before your first highlight.
Highlight, summarize, then send straight to Notion or Claude. Highlightly is built to move what you read into the tools where you actually work.
No sign-in, no account, no setup. Highlight in one click and the rest follows.
Select text on any page or PDF and pick a color, or right-click and choose "Highlight selection." Add a note if you want. Everything saves automatically.
Open your library and search across highlights and notes, filter by tag, and jump between every highlight on a page. Highlights re-appear when you revisit.
Turn a page's highlights into AI bullet points, then send them to Notion or a Markdown file, or copy them ready to paste into Claude or ChatGPT.
The free plan covers unlimited highlighting, notes, library, and export. Pro adds the AI workflow: unlimited summaries, export to Notion and Claude, PDF, and sync.
No. Highlightly stores each highlight with a text-quote anchor plus prefix, suffix, and position fallback, modeled on the W3C and Hypothesis approach. When you return to a page, the highlights re-anchor to the matching text, so they survive re-renders and minor edits instead of vanishing.
Yes. Highlighting, notes, tags, the searchable library, and Markdown export are free forever, with no page limit and no account. We never lock highlights you have already saved. AI summaries, export to Notion and Claude, PDF highlighting, and cloud sync are the Pro features, and the upgrade page says exactly what costs money.
No. There is no signup wall, no app to download, and no onboarding questionnaire. Install Highlightly, select some text, pick a color, and your first highlight is saved.
Open a page's highlights and click Summarize. Highlightly sends only the highlighted text to summarize it into bullet points, which you can then export to Notion or Markdown, or copy formatted for Claude or ChatGPT. Three summaries are free so you can try the workflow before upgrading.
Yes, with Pro. Highlightly opens PDFs in a built-in reader and highlights them with the same robust anchoring as web pages, so your PDF and web highlights live together in one searchable library.
You can cancel anytime in one click through the Stripe billing portal, no email required. If you cancel, your highlights, notes, and library stay exactly where they are, because the core highlighter is free forever. You only lose the Pro features like new AI summaries and sync.
Free, unlimited highlighting. No sign-in. Highlights that never disappear.
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