Growth signalNo paid features detectedMedium-risk permissions

PastReads Web Highlighter

Save Web Article Highlights Instantly

Users333Current public install base

Rating5.0Store average score

Reviews1Public review volume

Manifest versionV3Extension platform version

7-day growth+1Net users gained this week

7-day growth rate+0.3%Relative weekly velocity

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2026年6月25日2026年6月25日

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1-day growthGrowing

+1+0.3%

7-day growthGrowing

+1+0.3%

30-day growthGrowing

+3+0.89%

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Version1.0.2

ManifestV3

Size26.55KiB

Languages1English

Published--

Store updated--

Last crawled--

Overview

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Remember Everything You Read

🚀 KEY FEATURES:

The PastReads Chrome Extension is your FREE instant web highlighter that seamlessly captures valuable insights from articles, blog posts, books, and web content. With just a right-click, save any selected text directly to your PastReads library, complete with automatic metadata capture including article title, author, URL, and timestamp.

✨ One-Click Highlighting - Right-click any selected text and choose "Save to PastReads"

🔄 Real-time Sync - Highlights instantly appear in your PastReads library

📚 Automatic Metadata Capture - Article title, author, URL, and date automatically saved

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Store average score5.0Chrome Web Store aggregate rating, including ratings without synced review text

Synced text average5.0Average computed only from synced review bodies below

Reviews with text1Synced review bodies

Total ratings / reviews1Chrome Web Store public rating/review count

Store average score: 5.0. The bars below are calculated from synced review text only, so they may be empty for extensions that have public ratings but no synced comments yet.

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AI product read

Web Article Highlighter

Helps users save and organize text highlights from web articles, blogs, and books to prevent losing valuable insights.

User selects text on a webpage -> Right-clicks and selects 'Save to PastReads' -> Extension captures text and metadata -> Sends data to PastReads API -> User can view/edit highlights in the PastReads library.

Target users: Readers / Researchers / Students / Knowledge workers

The extension relies on the PastReads web service for storage and authentication. Analysis is based on static code and store description; runtime behavior of the auth flow was not tested.

Monetization

No paid features detected

The extension description explicitly states it is a 'FREE instant web highlighter'. The source code contains no references to payment gateways, subscription management, premium feature gating, or billing logic. The extension simply saves highlights to the PastReads service. While the PastReads service itself may have paid plans, the extension does not implement or gate any paid features.

Confidence: 90
Payment platform: --
Source: AI / High
Login required: Yes
Reason: The extension requires a valid authentication token to perform any core function (saving highlights, viewing library, managing tags). The popup explicitly shows a 'Sign in to PastReads' button when no token is present (popup.html:67, popup.js:1325). The login flow redirects to the destination service's auth page (pastreads.com/extension-auth) via handleLogin() (popup.js:384-388). All API calls require an Authorization header with the user's token (background.js:433, popup.js:77). Without login, the extension cannot save highlights or access the library.

Permission risk

Medium-risk permissions

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扩展能力较强：storage、activeTab、scripting

Publisher

PastReads.com

J Alblas

Email: [email protected]
Phone: +31611250450
Address: Bisschopsweg 17 Amersfoort 3817BP NL

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