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 every word you care about, gives each one its own color, and highlights all of them on the page (and any open PDFs) at once.
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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 all of them at once. That's usually a 2–5× speed-up on real scanning work — and a much better mental model, because you can see the relative density of each term across the page.
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. Repeat for as many terms as you need.
- 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 surfacing matches inside collapsed sections.
- 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
PDF Search opens local or remote PDFs in a Highlighty workspace and runs your same query list across every open document. Searchable PDFs work out of the box; scanned English PDFs are read on your device via on-device OCR — no upload, no third-party service.
Frequently asked questions
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