⚠️Not updated in over a year
Description
Find information faster, while you browse! Add and classify keywords or phrases relevant to you. Multi highlight. ReadLayer will highlight similar terms automatically each time you open a website or PDF.
Check the updates in our changelog: https://docs.readlayer.com/changelog
Features:
* Free
The free version of ReadLayer can be used standalone, and it includes a very complete and robust set of features:
• Multi-highlight, choose a color or assign it randomly
• Regular expressions (Regex)
• Similar terms: find similar phrases or terms, e.g., "fatally injured" also highlights "fatalities as a result of work-related injury", "Gartenstraße" also highlights "Gartenstrasse".
• Proximity: highlight only terms that are close to other terms - 1 or more (e.g., money values AND "Exxon")
• Highlights summary where you can navigate across the highlights
• You can display a note on a highlights when the mouse hovers on it
• Granular classification: add items to themes and activate/deactivate themes depending on you current research.
• Synonyms: each item can have more than one terms to represent it, e.g., "Jon Snow" and "King Crow" (the same person) are highlighted under the same item.
• Fine tune your search: case sensitivity, whole words, regex, diacritics sensitivity
• Support dynamic sites: highlights auto refresh on content changes (e.g., live news, online chat, etc.)
• Works in SVG text
• Multi-language
• Unlimited keywords, phrases or themes
• Import/Export your whole collection of terms in JSON
• Import terms from Excel file
• Export the highlights for easy processing
• Domain whitelisting/blacklisting: automatically highlight only the sites you want
• Add new items directly from the context menu
• No registration required
• Privacy: all your data is stored in your browser locally, only
• Privacy: all your collections are encrypted and compressed locally
• Sync your collections across your devices
• No ads, no noise
• Regular updates
• Free of charge
* Premium
ReadLayer Premium includes everything available for free, plus:
• Multi-highlighting in PDFs directly in your browser
Visit https://readlayer.com for more information, or the documentation at https://docs.readlayer.com.
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Permissions (6)
Permissions
activeTabℹ Can access the current tab when you click the extension alarmsℹ Can schedule periodic background tasks contextMenusℹ Can add items to the right-click menu downloadsℹ Can manage and monitor downloads storageℹ Can store data locally in your browser webNavigationℹ Can monitor navigation events
Details
| Version | 0.4.2 |
| Updated | Apr 18, 2024 |
| Size | 5.55MiB |
| First Seen | Mar 28, 2026 |
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