# Weava review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Highlight and annotate web pages and PDFs, with folders and citations Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Weava is a research tool, mainly a Chrome extension, for highlighting websites and PDFs and adding notes. Highlights are organized into folders in a web dashboard and can be exported with citations. An iOS app is available, and a paid plan adds folder sharing. - **Category:** Read Later & Bookmarks - **Made by:** Weavatools Limited - **Website:** https://www.weavatools.com - **Runs on:** Browser extension, Web, iOS - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you use another browser or an Android phone: the pages name only Chrome and iOS. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, Weava has a free plan, and paid plans start at $3.99 per month. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** Unlimited highlights and notes, sync across unlimited devices and 100 MB of storage. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Free | $0 | Unlimited highlights and notes, unlimited devices, 100 MB storage and basic email support. | | Premium | $3.99 per month; billing period not shown on the page | Adds unlimited highlight colors, sub-folders, collaboration, image saving, unlimited storage and priority support. The page shows $7.99 crossed out and gives no end date. | Read from https://www.weavatools.com/premium/ on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Weava before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Cheaper yearly billing** (Annual discount): The pricing FAQ says the yearly option is always cheaper, usually by about 20%; no yearly price is shown. Source: https://www.weavatools.com/premium/ ## Key features - **Highlights on pages and PDFs:** Highlight text on any website or PDF and attach notes to each highlight. - **Folders:** Organize saved work in a dashboard; sub-folders need Premium. - **Automatic citations:** Generates citations in APA, MLA, Chicago and Harvard styles. - **Export:** Exports to Word, Excel, TXT and CSV. - **Shared folders:** Premium lets a team work in the same folders and see each other's highlights. ## Good for - Students and researchers collecting sources for papers - People who want highlights from web pages and PDFs in one place ## Worth knowing - The free plan has 100 MB of storage. - Collaboration, sub-folders, unlimited colors and saving images need Premium. - The page does not say whether $3.99 is for monthly or yearly billing; it says yearly billing is usually about 20% cheaper. - The homepage text offers a Chrome extension and an iOS app, and lists no other browser. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.6 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Weava lets you highlight and annotate web pages and PDFs, sort them into folders and generate citations. The free plan has unlimited highlights but only 100 MB of storage, and sub-folders, collaboration and saving images need Premium at $3.99 a month. - **Value for money: C.** $3.99 a month for Premium, against the reading category's $4.00 middle. The page shows $7.99 crossed out with no end date and does not say if $3.99 is monthly or yearly billing. - **Free plan and trial: B.** A free plan with unlimited highlights, notes and devices, but only 100 MB of storage. - **Features: C.** Highlights on pages and PDFs, folders, citations, export and shared folders. Sub-folders, collaboration, unlimited colors and saving images are Premium. - **Ease of use: B.** No store rating on record. You install a Chrome extension and start highlighting, with little to set up. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Chrome extension, web app and iOS app, but no Android and no other browser listed. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Weava's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among read-later and bookmark apps - Weava's GPA of 2.6 is higher than 27 of the 66 other read-later and bookmark apps we grade, and level with 9. - It stands best on ease of use (B, above 32 of 66) and worst on features (C, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $3.99 a month, against a middle price of $3.33 for the category: 20 of the 37 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4. 6 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/reading ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Weava you would be making a library of papers and sources to search. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It costs $47.88 a year. - You could make: Highlights and web clipper: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: A library of papers and sources to search. - You could not: Citation records for millions of papers. - You could not: A real app for iOS. Something home-made would be a web page. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. **Tags:** Highlights, Citations, Research, Web clipper ## Alternatives - [Hypothesis](https://toolgpa.com/tools/hypothesis): Social annotation for web pages and PDFs, built for courses. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/hypothesis-vs-weava) - [Diigo](https://toolgpa.com/tools/diigo): Bookmarking with highlights and sticky notes on web pages and PDFs. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/diigo-vs-weava) - [Glasp](https://toolgpa.com/tools/glasp): Social web highlighter with AI summaries of videos and articles. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/glasp-vs-weava) - [Web Highlights](https://toolgpa.com/tools/web-highlights): Highlighter for web pages and PDFs with notes and sync. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/weava-vs-web-highlights) - [Readwise](https://toolgpa.com/tools/readwise): Highlight library with a daily review and a read-later app. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/readwise-vs-weava) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://www.weavatools.com - https://www.weavatools.com/premium/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/weava Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).