Is Highlight free to use?
Yes. Highlight is free for personal use, does not require an account and does not add a watermark to your exported PDF.
Mark passages in five reading colors.
Highlight text in PDFs using five reading colors. Mark important passages, add notes and export a clean annotated PDF. Free, browser-based, no sign-up.
Mark key passages in five colors to distinguish priorities or categories.
Highlight directly on any PDF — scanned or text-based — without conversion.
Download the marked-up PDF ready to share with colleagues or students.
Yes. Highlight is free for personal use, does not require an account and does not add a watermark to your exported PDF.
Core PDF actions run in the browser whenever possible. When a conversion needs a worker, files are processed through encrypted temporary storage and cleaned automatically.
Yes. The tool works in modern mobile and desktop browsers, so you can upload, adjust and download PDFs without installing a desktop app.
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