# The Magic Highlighter — user reviews > 32 indexed App Store user reviews of The Magic Highlighter by Herd Works Inc, rated 3.90/5 from 20 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/the-magic-highlighter/id1663033087/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/the-magic-highlighter/id1663033087.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 13 · 4★ 0 · 3★ 2 · 2★ 1 · 1★ 4 ## Newest reviews (11 of 32) ### 2/5 — Unmaintained *2024-01-23* A great concept ruined by its unfinished nature and lack of improvements. Feature requests go unanswered for months. ### 2/5 — inútil *2023-07-10* comportamiento errático (a veces marca, a veces no) e imprevisible. No hay forma de marcar adecuadamente una página ### 3/5 — Major problem detected! *2023-07-06* 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. ### 3/5 — Side effect on Safari for Mac *2023-05-31* 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. ### 2/5 — Works as expected for one page, but resets upon refresh. *2023-04-30* 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. ### 4/5 — How do I hide the highlights? *2023-04-18* 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! ### 3/5 — I like it but could use enhancements *2023-04-04* 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. ### 3/5 — Good but a few things do not work (yet) *2023-04-04* 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! ### 4/5 — Great idea but... *2023-04-04* This is a great idea and a useful utility but please **give us the option to define the keyboard-shortcut ourselves** instead of hardwiring it. ### 4/5 — Really good, needs more search engines *2023-03-15* Please add support for: mojeek qwant startpage ### 4/5 — Cool concept, tweaks would make it perfect *2023-02-17* I love this idea of introducing a visual continuity betwen my searches and the links I click on. One thing I've noticed is that the highlights can be a bit noisy depending on the search and destination. Some ideas to improve this: - Option to only activate on queries with greater than X number of words - Option to ignore stop words ("the", "a", "an", etc.) - Option to only add highlights if the query is found fewer than X times on the page ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Does not work *2024-07-02* I have tried many times of following the steps but it doesn’t work waste of the money. ### 1/5 — Wasted money on this *2024-06-19* Quite useless and misleading. ### 1/5 — Cool idea. Visually garish *2024-01-28* 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. ### 1/5 — Simply awful in ADO *2023-12-31* • 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 ### 1/5 — ARNAQUE? *2023-09-08* n'apparait pas dans les préférences de safari sur mon IMAC bon je n'ai dépensé que 2,00€ mais quand meme. a éviter ### 1/5 — dernière mise à jour👎 *2023-09-07* Plus possible de trouver l application dans safari config pourtant ok ### 1/5 — cannot open to new tab after installing this. *2023-09-02* not worth it ### 1/5 — Doesn’t Work NO SUPPORT *2023-08-25* 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. ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work *2023-04-18* This extension doesn’t work at all. I enabled the extension, restarted my phone, everything. But it doesn’t work. Don’t buy. ### 1/5 — Inutile *2023-03-25* Inutile! ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Doesn’t work on Kagi - abandoned *2024-12-25* 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. ### 5/5 — Works great *2024-01-29* Not sure why recent reviews have comment on it not working. Works great on my iPad/iPhone. ### 5/5 — Love it *2023-05-06* I really like it, now if only chosen highliter color could be saved that would be awesome ! ### 5/5 — Works as Advertised *2023-03-23* Safari is not my primary browser on the Mac, I've grown to appreciate this extension so much - that it is jarring when I go to my other browser and its not there! Also, you can't beat that once you've purchased this on the mac its now available for free on iOS and iPadOS. To the Developer - please bring this to Chromium based browsers! ### 5/5 — Thanks for the Kagi support! *2023-03-01* Great extension! Thanks so much for adding Kagi support. ### 5/5 — Great app, one recommendation *2023-03-01* Love the idea of this app, please add opacity options so it can be more transparent for times it’s needed ### 5/5 — The app you didn’t know you needed *2023-02-25, version 0.5.2* I love this app. I accidentally turned the app off and was getting upset that my words weren’t highlighted. It’s already one of those things that’s an everyday part of search for me. I love that it just works. ### 5/5 — Geniale Idee, gute Umsetzung! *2023-02-21* Dieses Add-On tut das, was ich sonst ohnehin ständig manuell tue, nachdem ich auf ein Suchergebnis klicke. Außerdem ist der Entwickler sehr kommunikativ auf Mastodon. ### 5/5 — Google Search Speed Boost 🚀 *2023-02-17* The Magic Highlighter is such a speed boost to the workflow I use most throughout the day: google search. Whether for personal or business use, having search terms highlighted on the resulting page gets you the answer you’re looking for instantly. **Developer response:** Thanks for the review! 😊 We're glad you're finding it useful! 🙌 "This is the way!" ⚡️ ### 5/5 — LOVE IT!! *2023-02-17, version 0.3.1* I love little productivity hacks like this! Bravo 👏👏👏 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. 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