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Highlight Reader — Read Aloud, Highlight on the Page

Chrome extension by Rehoboth Builds · Make Chrome Yours · Accessibility

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A Chrome extension in Make Chrome Yours · Accessibility with 5 users, barely installed.

No site access is declared in the manifest, so it cannot read the pages you open on its own.

What the developer says, and 3 screenshots

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Users
5
Rating
not rated yet
Users, last 11 days
+5
Version
1.0.2
Updated in the store
2026-09-16
Published
2026-09-07
Manifest
V3
Browser access
5 permissions

How it has moved

Users
+5 since 08.09
0-5 · 6 readings
2026-09-08: appeared in the store2026-09-09: released 1.0.12026-09-16: released 1.0.2
  1. 2026-09-080appeared in the store
  2. 2026-09-091released 1.0.1
  3. 2026-09-102
  4. 2026-09-134
  5. 2026-09-155
  6. 2026-09-185
Users
+5 since 08.09
0-5 · 6 readings
2026-09-08: appeared in the store2026-09-09: released 1.0.12026-09-16: released 1.0.2
  1. 2026-09-080appeared in the store
  2. 2026-09-091released 1.0.1
  3. 2026-09-102
  4. 2026-09-134
  5. 2026-09-155
  6. 2026-09-185

A dot marks a day the store showed a different number. Between them the line carries the last one forward: we read every listing more than once a day and record a point only when something moves. History beyond ninety days is in the app.

What it can reach

No site access is declared in the manifest, so it cannot read the pages you open on its own.

  • Run its own code on the pages it can access scripting
  • Act on the current tab, but only after you click it activeTab
  • Add items to the right-click menu contextMenus
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  • Store data in your browser storage
  • Speak text out loud tts

The full permission history for this extension

Version history

  1. Version 1.0.2
  2. Version 1.0.1

What changed recently

  1. Package size changed
  2. Store description rewritten
  3. Released version 1.0.2 (was 1.0.1)
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  1. Store description rewritten
  2. Package size changed
  3. Supported languages changed (1 → 24)
  4. Released version 1.0.1 (was 1.0.0)
  5. Appeared in the store

The publisher

Rehoboth Builds publishes 2 listings we track, 12 users between them. Listed website: rehobothbuilds.com.

  1. Custom Keyboard Shortcuts — Hotkeys for Chrome Rehoboth Builds · Productivity · Workflow · published 2026-08-31 7 users

Like this one

Listings the catalog judges closest in what they say they do.

  1. Highlight & Read: Text to Speech Describes nearly the same job, smaller audience 22 users ★ 5.0
  2. Highlight Voice Reader Describes nearly the same job, smaller audience 3 users (last published figure)
  3. Narrate Describes nearly the same job, smaller audience 29 users
  4. PageLilt — Private Read Aloud Describes nearly the same job, smaller audience 18 users ★ 3.7
  5. ✅ Read Aloud – Text-to-Speech & Word Highlighting Describes nearly the same job, smaller audience 395 users ★ 1.0

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