Find multiple words on a page in Chrome — in parallel, in different colors
Chrome's Ctrl+F can only chase one keyword at a time. Highlighty lets you add several chosen terms, gives each one its own color, and highlights them together on supported pages. PRO PDF Search extends the workflow to PDFs.
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The problem with Ctrl+F when you need more than one word
Native Find is great when you have a single search term. The moment you need to compare candidates — three skills on a CV, ten clauses in a contract, every variant of a brand name in a long article — it stops scaling. You retype, re-scroll, and lose the spatial picture of where each term lives on the page.
A multi-keyword search lets you see chosen terms together and inspect where each appears on the page. Check the surrounding text before deciding what a match means.
How Highlighty finds multiple words at the same time
- Install and pin Highlighty from the Chrome Web Store. Refresh any tabs that were already open before install.
- Open the popup and add each keyword to the active query list — type, pick a color, press Enter. The free plan allows up to five active terms per list; PRO allows larger lists.
- Highlighty colors every match in parallel across the current page, with on-page alerts telling you which queries were found, scrollbar markers showing where they live, and an X-Ray panel for additional match context.
- Jump between matches with navigation hotkeys, by clicking saved-highlight chips in the Ctrl+F bar, or by clicking scrollbar markers directly.
Need more depth? Read the full how-to guide or see How to search multiple keywords in a PDF in Chrome.
A smarter Ctrl+F when you want it
Highlighty's saved-highlight workflow is the main event, but you don't lose Ctrl+F. Single-press Ctrl+F (Cmd+F on Mac) opens Highlighty's bar with modifier toggles for case, whole word, and diacritics — and on PRO, regex pattern matching, fuzzy typo-tolerant search, persistent search history, and find across all open tabs. Double-press the same shortcut to fall through to the browser's native Find for the rare case you need it.
Works on PDFs too
With a PRO trial or subscription, PDF Search opens local or remote PDFs in a Highlighty workspace and applies your query list to each document. It searches selectable text and uses on-device English OCR for image-only pages. Local PDFs are not uploaded to Highlighty for search or OCR processing.
See a practical workflow
Start with a few terms you already know, then read each match in context.
Recruiting and sourcing
Locate chosen skills and credentials on candidate pages. PDF Search extends the workflow to CVs with PRO.
Read the recruiter workflowLegal documents
Locate chosen names and defined terms on pages or, with PRO, in searchable and scanned English PDFs.
Read the legal workflowFrequently asked questions
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