# Highlighter for Safari — user reviews > 157 indexed App Store user reviews of Highlighter for Safari by Denk Alexandru, rated 4.10/5 from 15 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/highlighter-for-safari/id1385628859/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/highlighter-for-safari/id1385628859.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 11 · 4★ 1 · 3★ 0 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 3 ## Newest reviews (13 of 157) ### 3/5 — Good but needs to be more improved - increase colors - make the yellow more light. *2026-08-16* Good app - make the light highlight more yellow please ### 4/5 — Funciona bem mas… *2026-07-03* Sinto falta da função de comentar nos destaques feitos, ajuda principalmente para quem usa a ferramenta para estudar. A opção atual de notas é muito ruim e pouco funcional. ### 3/5 — Page updates highlights disappear. *2026-05-20* ⚠️ Important: If the page updates, the highlights are likely to disappear. **Developer response:** Dear user, Thank you for your review, I'm taking notes of all of them. But can you give me more details? Please send me an email to hello@alexdenk.eu and provide me with more details, and for sure, we can find a solution. Regards. ### 4/5 — Bien, mais dommage pour les iPads. *2026-01-23* L’application est plutôt bien conçue et les notes sont pratiques. Cependant, le surlignement est gênant sur iPad : on ne surligne pas comme je l’aurais pensé avec l’Apple Pencil, mais en sélectionnant le texte. Je pense donc que je ne vais pas l’utiliser beaucoup. Dommage qu’on ne puisse pas réduire ou mettre les notes sur le côté avec des couleurs différentes, afin d’en avoir plusieurs en même temps. The app is fairly well designed, and the notes are convenient. However, highlighting is awkward on the iPad: you don’t highlight as I expected with the Apple Pencil, but by selecting the text. So I don’t think I’ll use it much It’s a pity that you can’t minimize or move notes to the side with different colors, so you can have several open at the same time. ### 2/5 — Needs lots of improvements *2025-08-31* Lots of bugs: highlights automatically get deleted, some page like yt are not being removed from the pages section even after “clear all” multiple times, note keeps on moving when trying to scribble with pencil, I am noticing anew bug-wikipedia pages are only highlighting after multiple attempts Some feedback for additional things i felt missing: 1. Give option to add multiple notes in a single webpage or just add a feature to add notes to highlights like diigo 2. Try to name pages like diigo instead or just showing url in the pages section 3. If possible, add a feature to allow users to use pencil to write on the webpage and save it permanently like highlights 4. We have to open tabs from the extension to show the highlights, try to show highlights even if we open tabs from the just by searching 5. Also show option to highlight first instead of directly highlighting when using hand, i have to use the look up feature a lot, and directly highlight when using pencil 6. Add color options in the color icon inthe webpage only instead to extension ### 2/5 — Doesn’t work on all websites *2025-05-12* Paid and downloaded this to annotate my university work through Safari and it isn’t compatible - really frustrating! Waste of money as I can’t use it for what I needed it for. **Developer response:** Dear user, Thank you for your review, I'm taking notes of all of them. But can you give me more details? Please send me an email to hello@alexdenk.eu and provide me more details and for sure we can find a solution. Regards. ### 3/5 — Its good if we can change colour from page, dont want to gi inside extension every time to change. *2025-04-20* Good but you have to go inside extention at top to change colour, also at some websites it increases text size of highlighted text. ### 4/5 — Acceptable *2025-04-10, version 2.5.7* The highlight is kept after deleting the browsing history (only browsing history OR browsing history cookies), however it doesn't shown in reader view, which is a bit inconvenient. ### 4/5 — Great Highlighter Extension but some problems *2025-02-25* Overall great highlighter extension. This is a pretty stable extension with minimal issues. The only issue that I constantly run into is the icon for highlighting showing up on the screen at unexpected times. I wish there is a way to disable the hold option and hold option and command keybind features. ### 4/5 — 希望可以增加个，记笔记的时候，网页可以变黑白 *2024-09-08* 这样查看的时候，一眼就可以看到笔记记录 ### 2/5 — Only works properly on certain websites *2024-05-15* It’s good for the websites that it works on but sad that it doesn’t work properly on others. On some websites the highlighter doesn’t display properly unfortunately **Developer response:** Dear user, Thank you for your review, I'm taking notes of all of them.But can you give me more details? For example, on what websites are you trying to use the app? Please send me an email to hello@alexdenk.eu and provide me more details and for sure we can find a solution.Regards. ### 2/5 — Notes are getting lost and misplaced. *2024-03-28* Notes are getting lost and misplaced. **Developer response:** Dear user, Thank you for your review, I'm taking notes of all of them. Highlights can disappear if the page updates the paragraphs you highlighted. If highlighted paragraphs change, of course the highlights will change as well, since the original content is not there anymore. You can also send me an email to hello@alexdenk.eu and I will gladly provide you with more details. Regards. ### 5/5 — Useful Extension *2023-11-24* I like the extension it helps me with my daily workflow 😊 However, I hope that the existing features will be easier/more intuitive to use in the future. For example, it should be easier to switch between colors. Also, before deleting all the highlights, there should be a confirmation whether the desired action should really be taken. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — 非常糟糕的产品 *2026-07-04* 搞高亮的文本是需要导出来的，作为摘抄笔记，却让让我使用PDF方式导出整个网页。像AI聊天工具左侧带导航区的，效果更是奇差无比。 **Developer response:** Dear user, Thank you for your review, I'm taking notes of all of them. But can you give me more details? Please send me an email to hello@alexdenk.eu and provide me with more details, and for sure, we can find a solution. Regards. ### 1/5 — Muito lento pra marcar *2026-03-09* Dificuldade ao selecionar a frase, ou marca tudo ou não marca nada Deveria ser mais rápido para mudar de cores **Developer response:** Dear user, Thank you for your review, I'm taking notes of all of them. But can you give me more details? Please send me an email to hello@alexdenk.eu and provide me with more details, and for sure, we can find a solution. Regards. ### 1/5 — Nighlighter *2026-01-08* This is bad highlighter absolute scam!!! Give me my money back **Developer response:** Dear user, Thank you for your review, I'm taking notes of all of them. But can you give me more details? Please send me an email to hello@alexdenk.eu and provide me more details and for sure we can find a solution. Regards. ### 1/5 — Worst app ever seen *2025-10-01, version 2.5.9* Don’t wast your money and time in this app ### 1/5 — Terrible UI *2024-08-19, version 2.5.0* To activate highlighter you have to use a shortcut in every single page. To deactivate it there is no shortcut and you have to use click menu every single time. And while it is active, there is always a colorful dot moving with your cursor. So distracting! It should be like that: when you select a part of the text, a small symbol should appear at the end of the selected text and when you click it the selected part should be highlighted. It's that simple. I think they have spent lots of hours to make it unuseful. ### 1/5 — buggy *2024-02-23* tapping disable pen seems to be buggy. i'm unable to enable the pen again! also the extension is causing issues with the little popup bubble where it is sometimes not showing. happy to update my review if the issue is fixed **Developer response:** Dear user, Thank you for your review, I'm taking notes of all of them. The app is compatible with Apple Pencil - since Apple Pencil can highlight text on websites, so goes Highlighter. Can you tell me on what site are you using the app? You can also send me an email to hello@alexdenk.eu and I will gladly provide you with more details. Regards. ### 1/5 — Highlighting does not work *2024-01-10* Does not highlight. I even tried it on wikipedia as it was advertised on that page. I activated the extension and also the marker, it showed the selected colour in the corner but highlighting did not work. **Developer response:** Dear user, Thank you for your review, I'm taking notes of all of them.I think you just need a page refresh, after activation the extension cannot initiate on old pages, so you need a refresh. Or you can try a browser restart (swipe up).You can also send me an email to hello@alexdenk.eu and I will gladly provide you with more details.Regards. ### 1/5 — So disappointed *2023-10-26* I was very excited for this app. It would not highlight anything anywhere. Not on my mac. Not on my phone. Not any kind of webpage in any color at all. The extension showed up and gave me the options, but the highlight function simply did not work. Sad. **Developer response:** Dear user, Thank you for your review, I'm taking notes of all of them.Maybe the extension was not active in your browser or a browser refresh could make the app start fresh.Please send me an email to hello@alexdenk.eu and provide me more details and for sure we can find a solution.Regards. ### 1/5 — Buyer beware *2023-10-11* Paid for the extension, installed on my safari toolbar, and it doesn't work at all. Tried the short cut etc. to no avail. Wasted money. **Developer response:** Dear user, Thank you for your review.  Are you sure the app was active? Please make a test on a simple site (like wikipedia.org) just to make sure everything is in place. Click a colour and start highlighting. ### 1/5 — can't even Highlight on any website *2023-07-05* I bought this hoping it will be a really helpful tool but when I bought I tried highlighting and it didn't work. I tried and played with to see if it works for a while, but then I realized maybe it's because I'm using it on PDF. I tried on other webstie that is not a PDF, but stil it didn't work. I NEED my money back ASAP or help me fix it ASAP **Developer response:** Dear user, Thank you for your review. The application does not work on PDF documents, only on websites. In your website case, are you sure the app was active? Please make a test on a simple site (like wikipedia.org) just to make sure everything is in place. Click a colour and start highlighting. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — superbe *2026-05-29* très bonne app que je recommande. cependant j’aimerais un système plus pratique pour les notes. j’aimerais qu’elles fonctionnent de la même manière que l’app Livres… ### 5/5 — Great Extension *2026-02-20* For the longest time, I was looking for a simple to use highlighter app for safari, but couldn’t find a good one at a reasonable price. This is by far one of my fav extensions of all time. ### 5/5 — Great! *2025-11-29* Simple and Usuful app ### 5/5 — It’s cool for web-based material learning *2025-07-27, version 2.9.2* But I no longer see option Permanent and the highlight is not saved after reload. I have to go to list of pages and choose the relevant link to display and see the part that was highlighted before. This is quite inconvenient compares to the option Permanent in the Preview. Moreover, when the page list increases the length, it is hard to get the newest highlighted page when it is not neither on top nor at the bottom but rather in alphabet order (because it is not as Permanent function then have to copy the page to other place for easier later use) ### 5/5 — Please update the app for iOS 18 *2024-09-24* I really depend on this app for my daily reading and researching. Please update the app for ios 18. Thank you so much! **Developer response:** Dear user, Thank you for your review, I'm taking notes of all of them.Please check the latest update of the app (version 2.8.5), it solved a lot of problems.You can also send me an email to hello@alexdenk.eu and I will gladly provide you with more details.Regards. ### 5/5 — Well enough *2024-04-16, version 2.5.0* the only missing part of it is not being able to highlight pdfs on safari. Execpt that, its all good enough ### 5/5 — Nice! *2024-03-24, version 2.5.0* I've been looking for a simpler highlighter for Safari / Browser for years — not a read later app but something that lives inside the browser. This is perfect and hope its still under development! ### 5/5 — Semplice ma UTILISSIMA *2024-02-22, version 2.5.0* Un'app che non sai di volere finche non la installi nel tuo Mac / ipad ... a quel punto da studente non ne puoi più fare a meno. Semplice ed intuitiva, singolo pagamento, nessun abbonamento, permette di evidenziare i vari siti e studiare come su un normale PDF. Ci sarebbero diverse cose da perfezionare tipo: - inserire un pulsante "indietro" per eliminare l'ultima parte evidenziata (purtroppo capita di sbagliare con il mouse e se erroneamente catturi il bordo pagina evidenzia tutto irriversibilmente, obbligando l'utente a cancellare e ripartire da capo) - sistemare la funzione turn on - off che quando cambi colore si setta automaticamente su ON quando sarebbe piu comodo mantenesse la modalità usata fino a quel momento - inserire un eventuale sync tra dispositivi MAC, macbook ma soprattutto estenderla anche ai dispositivi mobili (ipad) sui quali il backup da mac non è supportato. L'app vale assolutamente i soldi chiesti e con questi accorgimenti sarei ben disposto ad agigungere qualcosa. ### 5/5 — Bella app *2024-02-22, version 2.5.0* Bella app, sarebbe ancora meglio se si riuscissero a sincronizzare le evidenziazioni tra i dispositivi. ### 5/5 — Great tools！ *2024-02-02* It is a really great tools! I wonder if the author could add exporting highlighted text function. It would be wonderful. Guanghui Chen --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-08.*