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Highlights: PDF Reader & Notes
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ASO score
Text
74/100
Reviews
50/100
Graphic
60/100
Other
0/100
App Rating
4.5
Votes
5.99K
App Age
5y 9m
Last Update
Nov 03, 2025
iAP
$1.99 - 14.99
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4.5
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4.68
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5.9K
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3.3M
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App Age
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5y 9m
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7y 9m
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-26%
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In-app Purchases Price
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$17
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$66
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Update Frequency
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29d
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28d
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Title Length
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30
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23
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Subtitle Length
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29
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28
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Description Length
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3 960
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3 048
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2340
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1378
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Size
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33MB
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283MB
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-88
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Highlights: PDF Reader & Notes
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"... 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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Additional Information
| Rating: | |
| Voted: | 5.99K |
| App Store Link: | |
| Website: | |
| Email: | - |
| Privacy Policy: | |
| Categories: | Productivity, Education |
| Size: | 33MB |
| iAP: | 1.99 - 14.99 $ |
| App Age: | 5 years 9 months |
| Release Date: | Apr 06, 2020 |
| Last Update: | Nov 03, 2025 |
| Version: | 2025.1.5 |
Version history
2025.1.5
Nov 03, 2025
Liquid Glass design on iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 with new app icons, transparent toolbars and a floating thumbnail sidebar.
The iPad version gains even more desktop-class features with freely resizable windows with window controls, a menu bar and a new sidebar floating above the content. Navigation has been improved and now resemble the macOS version in even more ways. The new menu bar makes it easy to find functionality or the correct window, thanks to the new window titles. The document browser has also been improved and now lets you set the default app for opening PDFs (long press on a file and go to Get Info)!
New languages are also available for OCR and text recognition in image selections: Turkish, Indonesian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Malay, Polish, Romanian and Swedish.
Minor improvements:
- Updated the Introduction Guide
- Fixed an issue preventing certain types of internal links and URL-schemes in comments from working
- Alert the user when trying to export to apps that are not installed
- Tapping on links inside paragraphs of notes no longer toggle the visibility of toolbars
- Alert the user when tapping on links using a URL-scheme that have no response
- The menu bar can now open Tutorials, What's New and Send Feedback from the document browser
- Removed separator line between thumbnails on iOS 26
- Fixed centering of tables in notes
- Fixed an edge-case where the bottom toolbar on iOS 18 and earlier would show up without a background color when changing to a compact layout with a document open
- The markup palette now hides automatically when the view is not tall enough to fit it
- The squeeze tool palette no longer displays underneath the sidebar when close to the left edge
- Fixed an issue where the document scanner on an iPhone would not launch if a document was displayed
- Fixed a crash related to grabbing image selections on first parse
- It is no longer possible to scroll a PDF while dismissing it with an edge swipe
2025.1.4
Oct 23, 2025
Liquid Glass design on iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 with new app icons, transparent toolbars and a floating thumbnail sidebar.
The iPad version gains even more desktop-class features with freely resizable windows with window controls, a menu bar and a new sidebar floating above the content. Navigation has been improved and now resemble the macOS version in even more ways. The new menu bar makes it easy to find functionality or the correct window, thanks to the new window titles. The document browser has also been improved and now lets you set the default app for opening PDFs (long press on a file and go to Get Info)!
New languages are also available for OCR and text recognition in image selections: Turkish, Indonesian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Malay, Polish, Romanian and Swedish.
Minor improvements:
- Fixed an issue preventing certain types of internal links and URL-schemes in comments from working
- Alert the user when trying to export to apps that are not installed
- Tapping on links inside paragraphs of notes no longer toggle the visibility of toolbars
- Alert the user when tapping on links using a URL-scheme that have no response
- The menu bar can now open Tutorials, What's New and Send Feedback from the document browser
- Removed separator line between thumbnails on iOS 26
- Fixed centering of tables in notes
- Fixed an edge-case where the bottom toolbar on iOS 18 and earlier would show up without a background color when changing to a compact layout with a document open
- The markup palette now hides automatically when the view is not tall enough to fit it
- The squeeze tool palette no longer displays underneath the sidebar when close to the left edge
- Fixed an issue where the document scanner on an iPhone would not launch if a document was displayed
- Fixed a crash related to grabbing image selections on first parse
- It is no longer possible to scroll a PDF while dismissing it with an edge swipe