Work · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to highlight.cool – add Medium-like highlights to your own blog
Hey y'all! I want to share my weekend project https://highlight.cool with you. highlight.cool lets your blog readers highlight what they find interesting, where the more interesting parts are bolder and the less interesting parts are lighter. As a reader, I've always enjoyed seeing the highlighted parts of Medium, but wasn't a fan of all the paywalls and that it only showed the top highlight. I'd love to see this feature on more blogs both as a way to be part of the community of readers, as well as give kudos to the writer for parts that I enjoyed reading. I've tried to make it so…
Highlight.cool is a tool that lets blog readers highlight interesting passages, with more-highlighted sections appearing bolder. The feature works across any blog and shows highlights in real-time from other readers.… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. highlight.cool – add Medium-like highlights to your own blog launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Cool Backgrounds▲505Create fast, one-of-a-kind hero images for blogs & websites
2018 · coolbackgrounds.io · its alternatives →
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With social media and now AI, its important to keep the indie web alive. There are many people who write frequently. Blogosphere tries to highlight them by fetching the recent posts from personal blogs across many categories. There are two versions: Minimal (HN-inspired, fast, static): https://text.blogosphere.app/ Non-minimal: https://blogosphere.app/ If you don't find your blog (or your favorite ones), please add them. I will review and approve it.
Apr 2026 · text.blogosphere.app · its alternatives →
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TL;DR for Medium top highlights
2015 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Highly▲127A Medium style tooltip to make your blog stand out
2021 · wordpress.org · its alternatives →
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Collaboration on Highlight makes debugging faster than ever
2022 · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, maker here. It was a serious 4-6 months of effort to build this. I have never poured as much love, attention and detail into a project before. So I really appreciate you having a looksie! The homepage has a fresh list of articles every hour and is open to all. Still, I recommend signing up so you can add stuff to your reading list and follow blogs. My initial plan was to monetize this with subtle ads, but that didn't work out as the traffic to the site isn't nearly enough for that. That said, I have a fair bit invested in this and I need your help figuring out a way to make this…
2023 · boredreading.com · its alternatives →
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Highlight▲318See and act on your webapp's issues and interactions
2021 · launchdarkly.com · its alternatives →
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Simple & easy syntax highlighting for Medium articles.
2019 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Extension that allows to share highlights to Buffer
2016 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Notate.so▲101Hey all :) I noticed the development on the Notion web clipper chrome extension is kinda slow, so I built a better one. It works on any web page, any youtube video, and any PDF. Features: - highlight + note + collections - auto-scrollback to your highlights (page automatically scrolls to the text you highlighted and it works on LLMs web interfaces) - automatic sync to Notion (+page+dbs creation) - reminders: the app pings you with an email to review and delete your already-checked highlights (you set the ping period) Let me know what you think. Denis
Nov 2025 · notate.so · its alternatives →
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Briefly▲75TL;DR highlight the internet and share on social media
2020 · briefly.co · its alternatives →
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Highlight and tag your friends on Hacker News. Contribute to veggiedefender/hn-friends development by creating an account on GitHub.
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Chrome extension to collect & email highlights on Medium
2018 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Highlight as you read and create a personal knowledge repo
2019 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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A beautiful selection of cool backgrounds
2020 · coolbackgrounds.io · its alternatives →
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Annotate and discuss web pages in real time.
2022 · webhighlighter.com · its alternatives →
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Blink and your graph is ready
Dec 2025 · ascii-graphs.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! This is a personal project I finally got round to completing and shipping. It’s a simple feed of articles written by real people with interesting things to say. I wanted to explore some new technologies I haven't had a chance to try before, mostly rust and LLMs. As I browse HN each day I find myself most drawn to the content on personal blogs: people who have interesting things to say, from their own point-of-view, on a whole range of topics. Rather than being interested in particular topics, I’m more interested in reading from interesting people. This isn't a particularly new idea,…
2024 · 100kb.danhill.is · its alternatives →
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