NowComment vs Weava Highlighter
NowComment
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| Figure | NowComment | Weava Highlighter |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | $1/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| iOS | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 4 |
| Spec score · Web Annotation Tools | 7.4 (#28) | 8.5 (#7) |
| Integrations | The FAQ says NowComment can integrate with Blackboard, Moodle, Sakai, Canvas, and other school LMSs through LTI authentication. | Weava is offered as a Chrome browser extension, and its resources say it can also be used with recent Microsoft Edge versions that support Chrome extensions. |
| Purpose | NowComment is a group collaboration app for discussing and annotating online documents, with threaded comments shown in context alongside the document. | Weava lets users highlight, annotate, and organize research from websites and PDFs. |
| Support | The support page directs users to an online troubleshooting guide and provides a tech support email for problems it does not resolve. | The Free plan includes basic email support, while Premium includes prioritized support. |
Plans
Weava Highlighter
- FreeFree
- FreeFree
- Premium$3.99 a month
- Premium annual promotion$12 a year
In their own words
NowComment
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Weava Highlighter
Weava Highlighter helps users collect research from websites and PDFs through highlights, annotations, and organized folders. Highlights can be made on websites, online PDFs, local PDFs, and PDFs uploaded to Weava. Users can attach notes without a stated length limit, then search highlights and filter them by color in the dashboard. The dashboard also supports folders and sub-folders, citation creation, and exports to Microsoft Word, Excel, CSV, or TXT. Weava is offered as a Chrome extension; its resources also describe use with recent Microsoft Edge versions that support Chrome extensions. An iOS app provides a mobile option. Premium shared folders let users invite collaborators by email to view and work with highlights and notes. The Free plan costs nothing and includes unlimited highlights and notes, sync across unlimited devices, 100 MB of storage, and basic email support. Premium costs $3.99 a month and adds unlimited storage, customizable highlight colors, unlimited sub-folders, collaboration, and prioritized support. Weava describes its audience as students and researchers and says it supports more than 700,000 users worldwide.