Highlights
Highlights is a PDF reader and annotation app for Mac that helps users read documents, capture highlights, and turn markup into organized notes.
What is Highlights?
Highlights is a native PDF reader and annotation app for Mac designed for research, study, and document-heavy reading workflows. It helps users read PDFs, highlight text, underline or strike through passages, add comments, and collect those annotations into notes they can review later. The app is especially useful for students, academics, writers, and professionals who work with articles, books, papers, or reference material and want to move from reading to note-taking with less manual copying. Highlights also includes OCR and table extraction tools, citation lookup features, and export options for sending notes to other apps and formats. It is available on Mac as well as iPhone and iPad, making it a practical choice for people who read and annotate across Apple devices.
Key features
- Read PDF documents in single-page or two-page modes
- Highlight, underline, strike through, and comment on PDF content
- Turn annotations into organized notes automatically
- Recognize text and extract table data from images in PDFs
- Look up citation metadata from marked references
- Export notes to formats such as Markdown, HTML, PDF, and TextBundle
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Safety overview
Status: Safe
Highlights is a legitimate document-reading and annotation app. Access to your files is expected for opening, marking up, and exporting PDFs and notes, and OCR features may process document content for text recognition. Keep it if you use it for reading or research, and review what documents you open or export if they contain sensitive information.
Recommendation: Keep Highlights if you read or annotate PDFs on your Mac, especially for study, research, or reference work. Remove it only if you no longer use its reading and note-export features, knowing that uninstalling the app may leave you without its annotation and workflow tools for existing documents.
Common paths
/Applications/Highlights.app
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