The Magic Highlighter User Reviews

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Doesn’t work on Kagi - abandoned

The app doesn’t work on Kagi, despite claiming it does. I filed a support ticket a year ago. The developer hasn’t updated the app since, or responded, so it appears abandoned. I recommend folks stay away.

I’ll note that the highlighting still seems to work fine with other search engines.

Does not work

I have tried many times of following the steps but it doesn’t work waste of the money.

Wasted money on this

Quite useless and misleading.

Works great

Not sure why recent reviews have comment on it not working. Works great on my iPad/iPhone.

Cool idea. Visually garish

The idea is smart, but it makes your webpages look awful.

Especially if you search for tiny words and it highlights every “a” and “the” etc on the page.

You can’t customize the highlight color with a transparency to try to tone it down that way.

I believe the app has not received an update since it came out.
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Unmaintained

A great concept ruined by its unfinished nature and lack of improvements. Feature requests go unanswered for months.

Simply awful in ADO

‱ Only a single colour can be applied per web-page
‱ enabled search strings only (seem to) apply to _some_ strings that are in view, after scrolling all strings are highlighted regardless of whether they are enabled

ARNAQUE?

n'apparait pas dans les prĂ©fĂ©rences de safari sur mon IMAC bon je n'ai dĂ©pensĂ© que 2,00€ mais quand meme.
a éviter

derniùre mise à jour👎

Plus possible de trouver l application dans safari config pourtant ok

cannot open to new tab after installing this.

not worth it

Doesn’t Work NO SUPPORT

I’ve followed the instructions to the letter and found that this app does NOT WORK. There’s not much more to say other than I’ve reached out to support and gotten no response. I guess I wasted my money on this one.

inĂștil

comportamiento errĂĄtico (a veces marca, a veces no) e imprevisible. No hay forma de marcar adecuadamente una pĂĄgina

Major problem detected!

It works great on my website, which made me very happy until I discovered a major problem (hijacking my Google Search). So, I contacted the developer directly. When this is fixed, it’s back to 5 stars.

Side effect on Safari for Mac

When the extension enabled in Safari for MacOS, a Command-click on a link no longer opens the link on a new tab. The page will open in the current tab.

Love it

I really like it, now if only chosen highliter color could be saved that would be awesome !

Works as expected for one page, but resets upon refresh.

I was hoping to use this extension to find multiple ingredient names across multiple pages of my supermarket, but upon refreshing I found that the list I had worked so hard to compile and refine disappeared after refreshing the page. This makes it useless for both my purposes and many others I'm sure that other users would have.
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How do I hide the highlights?

Great concept. Seems like there should be a simple way to hide ALL the highlights. I see that you can click each individual word from the search query to hide each individually, but if you have a long search query, this is tedious. Seems to me that the "Highlighted Phrases (##)" should be a clickable toggle that hides/shows ALL of the highlighted words.

If this feature already exisits, please let me know!
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Doesn’t work

This extension doesn’t work at all. I enabled the extension, restarted my phone, everything. But it doesn’t work. Don’t buy.

I like it but could use enhancements

This app works as advertised, but I find myself being annoyed with it because I can't quickly turn it off (or set it to be off by default and just turn it on when needed). I don't want to have to disable to whole plugin or click each word in my search terms to turn it off each time. I would love it if there was a toggle switch that I could default to the off position, and when I want to it on I can flip to see everything just like it works now. Or even if I could snooze it for a while. There are times I do searches that I don't need terms hightlighted to see what I am looking for. If these ideas (or something similar) get added, I'll update this to 5 stars.
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Good but a few things do not work (yet)

This is great app that helps become more productive. However it has lingering bugs that I am sure the developer will be able to fix without much trouble:
1) on ipados, the keyboard shortcut does not work (and in my case it is already assigned to another app)
2) the "tap to highlight" shown in the pop up does not seem to work

Looking forward to seeing an update!
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