ScreenFeel vs Highlight AI

Highlight is a desktop app with broad system reach. ScreenFeel is a browser extension with a narrower blast radius and a capture library you own.

Highlight AI: A desktop application that can see your screen and answer questions about it. Paid from $20/mo — Paid tier is credit-metered (about 2,000 credits). Free tier: Unlimited use on base models. Researched in August 2026.

	ScreenFeel	Highlight AI
Can it see your screen?	Yes — a region, an element, the visible tab, a full scrolling page, or any window on your desktop.	Yes, across the whole desktop as a native application.
Where do captures live?	In your browser, in IndexedDB. There is no server-side gallery to breach, because none was built.	Cloud-resident.
What does the AI provider keep?	Nothing. Lenses run on open-weight models under zero data retention, and a build check fails if a configured model is not marked private.	Standard commercial AI terms; not a zero-retention guarantee.
Annotate and redact before sharing?	Eleven-tool editor. Redaction is flattened into the exported pixels, not a removable overlay.	No annotation or redaction editor.
Searchable history of what you captured?	Yes — full-text search across titles, tags and text read out of the images, all local.	No local, searchable capture library of the ScreenFeel kind.
Tools for live screen sharing?	Cursor glow, spotlight boxes and arrows drawn locally, plus a warning when your other tab titles are about to be exposed.	None.
What you install	A Chrome extension with no dependencies, no build step and no remote code — the whole bundle is auditable.	A native desktop application with system-level access.
Price	€9.99/mo, or a free tier that runs every lens.	$20/mo as researched in August 2026.

When Highlight AI is the better choice

If you need an assistant that watches every application on your desktop — not just the browser — a native app reaches further than any extension can. Highlight's free tier on base models is also genuinely generous.

Try it without deciding

Capture, editing, redaction, the library and the presenter tools work with no account at all, and the free plan runs every lens. Nothing here needs a card.

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