Highlights: PDF Reader & Notes

Highlights: PDF Reader & Notes

Edit Research Documents/Books

App Report, Market and Ranking Data
category
price
Free (IAP)
Reviews
4.5 (1K)
United States United States
Description
Edit Research Documents/Books
"... an app that students, academics, and anyone who does substantial amounts of PDF-based research should try" - Macstories.net

"It’s the novel approach to PDF annotation that makes this app a cut above the rest"- TapSmart.com

*** "App of the Day" - App Store, US ***

USE HIGHLIGHTS FOR FREE
Highlights is a fast and lightweight PDF reader (under 10MB) packed with features to help you do your best research.

Free users have access to standard PDF reader features including document browsing, reading and annotating. There are NO ADS, time limits or tracking.

READ PDF DOCUMENTS 
• Open PDF documents from anywhere
• Browse files using the familiar document browser
• Open PDFs in Single Page or Two Page scroll mode
• Double tap to Smart Zoom in on a paragraph or figure
• Scrub smoothly to the desired page
• Search the entire document in an instant
• Navigate using any connected keyboard or mouse

STORE YOUR FILES WHERE YOU WANT
• Full support for "Open In Place" lets you make edits to the file where it is
• Access your files from iCloud Drive, Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive or Box using the document browser
• Or keep them privately on device only 

HIGHLIGHT AND ANNOTATE FASTER
• Select text with your finger, Apple Pencil or mouse pointer
• Highlight, underline, strikethrough text and make image selections
• Add comments to annotations or as individual sticky notes
• Annotate with fewer taps using context aware popovers
• Default annotation colors prevents you from having to repeatedly setting the color for the same type of annotation every time

TURN ANNOTATIONS INTO NOTES
• As you markup text and images the contents are extracted and sorted into notes
• Customize the formatting and contents of your notes
• Sort the annotations chronologically or create your own color coding

EXTRACT TABLE DATA AND RECOGNIZE TEXT
• Convert images containing text or tables to actual text and tables using machine learning - letting you get to the underlying data with a single tap

SMART COPY
Copy annotations to the desired format with one tap: 
• Text markup as text
• Image selections as images
• Tables as CSV 
• Citations as BibTex

LOOKUP CITATIONS
• Highlights will fetch DOI-links and metadata
• Markup any reference and tap the link icon to look it up
• If you have read the work already or have it in your reference manager library, Highlights will link you to it

EXPORT ANYWHERE
• Save or share your notes as portable files: Markdown, TextBundle, HTML, WebArchive or PDF
• Share them to your favorite notes app: Apple Notes, Bear, Craft, Evernote, DEVONThink, Keep It, MindNode, Notion, Obsidian, Roam Research or Ulysses
• Or send them to a colleague via mail. It's your notes, you decide where they go

MUCH MORE
• Dark mode
• Multi-window support on iPadOS
• Keyboard shortcuts and navigation
• Support for system Copy and Undo gestures
• Alternative app icons
• Custom accent colors
• Apple Pencil double-tap gestures
• Power annotation tools

For a full list of features see: highlightsapp.net/features

HIGHLIGHTS PRO
The Highlights Pro subscription unlocks advanced features on your iPhone, iPad and Mac:
• Export options for other apps and easily editable formats
• Extract information using table and text recognition
• Customize accent colors and alternative app icons
• Power annotation tools
• Citation lookups
• Smart Copy 

Highlights Pro includes a 14-day free trial. You can cancel your subscription at any time. The subscription will automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off within 24-hour prior to the end of of the current period.

Payments will be charged to your iTunes account and your account will be charged within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. Any unused portion of a free trial period will be forfeited when you purchase a subscription. 

For more information about Highlights Pro: highlightsapp.net/pro

Privacy Policy: highlightsapp.net/privacy
Terms: highlightsapp.net/terms
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Reviews

Love the concept, frequent crashes make use difficult

I love the ease of use and would make note taking for online classes so much easier, but I get frequent slowing of the app that leads to crashing after a few annotations, and the loss of some annotations. This just leads to repeating work. I’ve tried every workaround I can think of to keep it running smoothly, and even reached out to the developer for help over a month ago with no response. I’m not going to pay for the pro version if I can’t get through a 2 page pdf without multiple crashes

JananapantsThu, Feb 15, 2024
United StatesUnited States

useless

useless

noori1998Tue, Feb 13, 2024
United StatesUnited States

Tired of subscription only apps

I wish developers would offer a one-time purchase price along with the subs....

JoeRecursionjoeSun, Feb 4, 2024
United StatesUnited States

Legacy not honored

As a legacy (original) user and beta tester I was thrilled when the developer announced that original, first time supporters (legacy) users would receive the app for free once completed. This promise wasn't honoroed and worse: anyone who brought this to the developer's attn was attacked by the developer, called a liar and cut off from the app entirely. Whether this is a great app (there are better) or not, is it ok to support those who maim those who trusted and supported them? I don't want this app and I am not writing this to somehow get this app. I am also not writing this to harm anyone. I am writing this because it's true; do with it what you will. And don't complain when you experience the same thing. THINK honor Be

fox7rotSun, Feb 4, 2024
United StatesUnited States

Good product

The only thing that would be better is a formatting option on the notes section that would allow for indentation to further section out the notes. Very beneficial for PA school

Hoagie109Fri, Feb 2, 2024
United StatesUnited States

Favorite annotation app, but….

I love this app so much but on the iPad it’s buggy. It clears annotations on its own which means you miss certain highlights. If this is fixed … I’ll pay for it and give it 5 stars

SWKennySun, Jan 28, 2024
United StatesUnited States

AMAZING

BEST APP EVER

SaeeddhkTue, Dec 26, 2023
United StatesUnited States
Download & Revenue
DOWNLOAD 14.6KMar 2024Worldwide
REVENUE$471Mar 2024Worldwide
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About
Bundle Id
net.highlightsapp.universal
Min Os. Version
13.4
Release Date
Fri, Apr 10, 2020
Update Date
Thu, Nov 9, 2023
Content Rating
4+
Has IMessage
No
Support Watch
No
Support Siri
No
File Size
11.16MB
Has Game Center
No
Family Sharing
Yes
Support Passbook
No
Supported Languages
English
Featured
Apr 29, 2024
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12th
What's New
version
2023.3.3
updated
5 months ago
- Up to 5x faster conversion of image selections to images
- Up to 7x faster text recognition
- Up to 5x faster table recognition
- Up to 5x faster loading of PDF pages
- Faster writing of backup files when running OCR
- Faster opening of files

Minor improvements
Top In-App Purchases

Name

Price

Highlights Pro: Monthly
$3.99
Highlights Pro
$29.99
Highlights Pro: Legacy Upgrade
$29.99
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