The multi-highlighter Chrome extension for finding multiple words at once
Add every keyword you care about, give each one its own color, and Highlighty highlights all of them in parallel across webpages and PDFs. No more running Ctrl+F one word at a time.
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What is a multi-highlighter?
A multi-highlighter is a browser extension that highlights more than one word or phrase on the same page at the same time. Each query gets its own color, so you can see every relevant term side by side without switching between Find queries or losing your place in a long article.
Highlighty was built for the workflows that single-keyword tools can't handle: contract review with ten flagged clauses, CV screening for a list of required skills, comparative reading across news articles, log scanning, or scoring a long research paper against a set of concepts.
How to highlight multiple words on a Chrome page
- Install Highlighty from the Chrome Web Store and pin it to the toolbar.
- Open the page you want to scan and click the Highlighty icon to open the popup.
- Type a word or phrase into the query input, pick a color, and press Enter. Repeat for each keyword.
- Highlighty colors every match on the page in parallel and reports which queries were found or missed.
- Use scrollbar markers, X-Ray, or the navigation hotkeys to jump between matches.
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Highlighter features designed for multi-keyword work
- Per-query colors — slider, opacity, randomizer (free); full color picker and palette on PRO.
- Text decoration alternatives — underline, overline, strikethrough, wavy, dotted, or double underline when a background color is too heavy or clashes with the page.
- X-Ray context panel — surfaces matches inside collapsed sections, tabs, accordions, and dynamic UI so you stop missing hits hidden behind UI.
- Scrollbar markers — a quick visual map of where each highlight lives on long pages.
- Ctrl+F takeover — single-press opens Highlighty's bar with saved-highlight chips and modifier toggles; double-press falls through to native Find.
- Search modifiers — case sensitivity, whole word, diacritics, regex (PRO), fuzzy / typo tolerance (PRO).
- Bulk import — load query lists from .xlsx (Excel or Google Sheets) when you have dozens of terms to track.
- PDF Search — reuse the same query list on searchable PDFs, including scanned English PDFs via on-device OCR with no upload.
Why a multi-highlighter beats running Ctrl+F many times
Chrome's built-in Find can only chase one string at a time. Every additional keyword means typing it in, scrolling, then doing it again — and you lose the ability to compare matches across terms. A multi-highlighter shows you all of them at once, in distinct colors, with persistent state when you scroll or switch tabs.
For long documents and dense pages, that switch from sequential to parallel search is usually a 2–5× speedup on scanning tasks. Recruiters, analysts, researchers, lawyers, and engineers all use this pattern.
Frequently asked questions
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