Highlights: PDF Reader & Notes
Highlights: PDF Reader & Notes
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Highlights: PDF Reader & Notes

Stop the copy-paste fatigue. Automatically extract annotations, tables, and citations into structured notes, then export instantly to Obsidian, Notion, or Markdown.

Key Figures

Downloads

246K+

User Rating

4.5/5

Total Ratings

5K+

Publisher

Jonas Myren Ribe

Category

Productivity

Locales

1

Latest Version

2025.1.5

Size

33.4 MB

First Released

Apr 10, 2020
Features

Fuel Your Research Workflow

Stop fighting with static documents. Highlights helps you extract data, manage citations, and export insights directly to your favorite productivity tools.

Automatic Insights Extraction

Stop the manual copy-paste fatigue. As you highlight, your text, images, and tables are instantly extracted into a clean, formatted note for your research.

Smart Citation & Data Tools

Built for academic rigor. Automatically fetch DOI metadata, format BibTex citations, and convert complex PDF tables into CSV data with a single tap.

The following screenshots and description are sourced directly from the app's official store listing and are the property of the app developer.

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Screenshots

Highlights: PDF Reader & Notes - Highlights PDF Reader app on iPhone showing a research paper and Apple App of the Day recognition.

Highlights PDF Reader app on iPhone showing a research paper and Apple App of the Day recognition.

Highlights: PDF Reader & Notes - Infographic showing how the Highlights app converts PDF annotations into images text and tables

Infographic showing how the Highlights app converts PDF annotations into images text and tables

Highlights: PDF Reader & Notes - Highlights PDF Reader app showing powerful notes extracted from a research paper including a data table.

Highlights PDF Reader app showing powerful notes extracted from a research paper including a data table.

Highlights: PDF Reader & Notes - Smartphone screen showing Highlights app export menu with options for Markdown, PDF, and direct integration with productivity apps like Evernote and Ulysses.

Smartphone screen showing Highlights app export menu with options for Markdown, PDF, and direct integration with productivity apps like Evernote and Ulysses.

Highlights: PDF Reader & Notes - Highlights app on iPhone showing a scientific PDF with yellow text highlights and an annotation menu.

Highlights app on iPhone showing a scientific PDF with yellow text highlights and an annotation menu.

Highlights: PDF Reader & Notes - Highlights PDF Reader interface showing research tools for grabbing figures, extracting tables, and looking up citations with a DOI link

Highlights PDF Reader interface showing research tools for grabbing figures, extracting tables, and looking up citations with a DOI link

Highlights: PDF Reader & Notes - A screenshot of the Highlights app interface in dark mode displaying an academic research paper with medical diagrams and a data table

A screenshot of the Highlights app interface in dark mode displaying an academic research paper with medical diagrams and a data table

Highlights: PDF Reader & Notes - Highlights app Smart Copy feature displaying export options for BibTex PNG and CSV with an integrated spreadsheet view

Highlights app Smart Copy feature displaying export options for BibTex PNG and CSV with an integrated spreadsheet view

Highlights: PDF Reader & Notes - File organization interface in Highlights PDF Reader app showing research papers with cloud sync options

File organization interface in Highlights PDF Reader app showing research papers with cloud sync options

Highlights: PDF Reader & Notes - Highlights PDF Reader app interface shown on iPad, MacBook, and iPhone for research and note-taking.

Highlights PDF Reader app interface shown on iPad, MacBook, and iPhone for research and note-taking.

Description

"... 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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This page is not an official page of the app or its developer, but an independent editorial publication created for informational and commentary purposes. Unless expressly stated otherwise, neither the app nor its developer is affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, authorized by, or otherwise officially connected with MWM, Apple, Google Play, the app publisher, or the app's developer, and nothing on this page implies that the app was developed using MWM's services. Any trademarks, logos, screenshots, and other content remain the property of their respective owners.