Highlight in a click
Select text and pick a color from the small menu. You can also set up Safari extension shortcuts if you prefer using the keyboard.
A Safari extension for Mac
A beautiful way to annotate the web.
et al. is a Safari extension for Mac. Highlight text on any web page, add notes, and later find what you saved in your Library. Easily find previous highlights and notes, and ask questions and get short summaries using your Mac’s on-device Apple Intelligence model (available only on Apple Silicon Macs). Your data stays on your Mac.
Mark it up
Four colors. Notes when you need them.
Select text on a page, then choose yellow, green, blue, or pink. et al. saves the highlight so it can show up again when you come back. Because the web changes, et al. tries not to put a highlight in the wrong place. Everything you save still stays in the Library.
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Notes that stay close
Add a note to any highlight. Notes show up with the highlight and can be searched later in the Library.
Built for the keyboard
Safari lets you set shortcuts for highlighting, adding notes, and turning et al. on or off for a page.
Find it again
A Library for everything you’ve saved.
The Library is where your saved highlights live. Search your highlights, notes, tags, and page titles. You can also use folders, tags, and colors to narrow the list.
Search across everything
Search the text you highlighted, your notes, your tags, and the page titles from one field.
Folders and tags
Use folders and tags when they help. You can keep things simple or organize more as your Library grows.
Export when you need to
Export highlights as Markdown or CSV. You can also create citation exports from the Library.
Optional smart features
A little extra help from your Mac.
On supported Macs with Apple Silicon, et al. offers a few optional smart features that work with the highlights and notes you’ve saved. They run on your Mac, so nothing about your highlights is sent to a server. Powered by Apple Intelligence Foundation Models.
Ask a question or get a summary
Ask about your saved highlights and notes. On-device Apple Intelligence models provide answers and can even generate short summaries of your highlights and notes.
Suggested searches
Quickly start a search using suggested searches based on your Library.
Folder & tag name ideas
When you create a folder or tag, et al. can suggest a name. Nothing is moved or renamed unless you choose to.
Help with citations
When details for a source are missing, et al. can suggest the title, author, date, and other details from the saved page. Review before exporting.
Cite it
Citations, ready when you need them.
et al. retains page details for your highlights. Review and edit those details, then export citations in APA, MLA, BibTeX, RIS, or CSL-JSON. et al. also supports exporting your highlights to a Markdown or CSV file.
Designed for Mac
Designed for Safari on your Mac.
et al. was built for Safari on Mac from day one — a native web extension with support for light and dark modes, system fonts, keyboard shortcuts, and the familiar feel of a Mac app.
Yours, on your Mac
Local by default.
- No accounts to make. Nothing to sign up for, no password to forget.
- No tracking. I don’t collect anything about you, ever.
- No cloud. Your highlights, notes, folders, and tags all stay on your Mac.
- Smart features that stay on your Mac. On supported Macs, the optional helpers run there too.
- Pay once. When et al. arrives on the App Store, it will be a single purchase.
Hello
Greetings from Baltimore.
et al. is made by one person in Baltimore, Maryland — an independent researcher who loves the Mac and Safari and set out to build the annotation tool I’d always wanted: useful, simple, and truly native. After years of trying extensions that never fit the way I read and take notes on the web, I decided to make my own.
et al. began as a simple highlighter for the web and grew from there: folders, notes, four colors, search across everything I’ve saved, citations ready to paste. It’s the tool I use every day — designed for the slow, patient work of reading and thinking, and for the people who do that work.
If you’re a researcher, a student, a writer, or anyone who wants a simple, native way to highlight and annotate the web on your Mac, et al. is for you. Thanks for supporting independent software — and for letting me share a passion project.
Test et al.
et al. is in beta on TestFlight, getting ready for the Mac App Store.
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