# Web Highlights review (2026): is it worth it? > Highlighter for web pages and PDFs with notes and sync Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Web Highlights is a browser extension that highlights text on web pages, PDFs and YouTube, with notes, tags and collections. It also works as a bookmark and read-later tool and can turn highlights into flashcards. Highlighting is free; cloud sync, the web app and the phone apps need a paid plan. - **Category:** Read Later & Bookmarks - **Made by:** Web Highlights GmbH - **Website:** https://web-highlights.com - **Runs on:** Web, iOS, Android, Browser extension - **Who should skip it:** Tight if you want sync, since cloud sync, the web app and phone sync need a paid plan. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing Web Highlights's current pricing could not be confirmed from its own site. ## Key features - **Highlight web pages and PDFs:** Select text and pick a color, or use the Alt+S shortcut. PDFs can be downloaded with the highlights embedded as annotations. - **Notes and tags:** Attach a formatted note and tags to any highlight, or write a note about a whole page. - **Bookmarks and collections:** Save a page with one click and file it in a collection, so the extension doubles as a bookmark manager. - **Export to Notion and Capacities:** Send highlights and notes to a Notion database or Capacities, or copy Markdown for Obsidian. - **Flashcards:** Highlights can become flashcards, which the iPhone app schedules for review with spaced repetition. - **Sync across devices:** With a paid plan, highlights sync to a web app and to the Android and iPhone apps. ## Good for - Students and researchers who mark up articles and PDFs - Sending highlights into Notion or Obsidian - People who want highlights to stay on a page between visits ## Worth knowing - Cloud sync, the web app and phone sync need Premium or Ultimate; the site says sync needs a paid plan. - Notion and Capacities exports are one a day each on Free and Premium; PDF and HTML export files need Ultimate or the trial. - Highlighting images from websites is an Ultimate plan feature. - Plan prices could not be read because the pricing page loads them with a script, so none are recorded. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Web Highlights marks up web pages and PDFs, with notes, tags and exports to Notion and Capacities. Cloud sync and the web app need Premium or Ultimate, exports are one a day on the lower plans, and the plan prices could not be read. - **Value for money: C.** Plan prices load by script and could not be read, so none are on record and value sits at the default. - **Free plan and trial: B.** The extension has unlimited highlights, notes and tags, with a 7-day Ultimate trial. A person could live on it, without sync. - **Features: C.** Highlights, notes, bookmarks, flashcards and exports. Sync, PDF and HTML files and image highlights need paid plans. - **Ease of use: C.** An extension to install and start, though notes and tags take building. App Store rating not on record. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, iPhone, Android and an extension, with Notion, Capacities and Obsidian exports. No desktop app. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Web Highlights'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 - Web Highlights's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 12 of the 66 other read-later and bookmark apps we grade, and level with 14. - It stands best on free plan and trial (B, above 26 of 66) and worst on features (C, above 0). The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/reading ## Keep it, or make your own? **Your call.** A read-later list at its plainest is saved links with tags. You could make the core of Web Highlights for yourself: highlights, web clipper, bookmarks, read later and notes. What you would give up is listed below. Whether that is worth the price is your call. - You could make: Highlights, web clipper, bookmarks, read later and notes: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: A real app for iOS and Android. 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. ## Works with Notion, Capacities, Obsidian **Tags:** Highlights, Web clipper, Bookmarks, Read later, Notes ## Alternatives - [Hypothesis](https://toolgpa.com/tools/hypothesis): Social annotation for web pages and PDFs, built for courses. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/hypothesis-vs-web-highlights) - [Glasp](https://toolgpa.com/tools/glasp): Social web highlighter with AI summaries of videos and articles. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/glasp-vs-web-highlights) - [Diigo](https://toolgpa.com/tools/diigo): Bookmarking with highlights and sticky notes on web pages and PDFs. 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