Highlighted.ai - AI Overview Tracking Reviews

The service was working, and everything was fine; we were satisfied with our Tier 4. But then the developers decided it was time to shift new expenses onto the shoulders of Sumolings. Highlighted V2 now requires the use of the DataForSEO API, which, of course, we have to pay for, not Highlighted. And if we don’t purchase the DataForSEO API, Highlighted doesn’t work whatsoever. And if we do pay, surprise, out of 5 AI models, only 2 remain.

Compared to other great companies on AppSumo that uphold their LTD terms and provide good services or, at the very least, keep the same services free for LTD supporters when changes occur. Highlighted is just an illustrative example of a company coming to AppSumo to make money and “ditch” Sumolings.

I bought Highlighted.ai expecting real AI monitoring — automatic tracking of mentions and brand visibility across AI platforms. Unfortunately, that’s not what the tool delivers. Instead, you have to write your own prompts, and the system only runs them occasionally. That’s not discovery or monitoring, it’s just repeating what you already told it.

The core problem is accuracy: it doesn’t track keywords or brand names properly and often produces results that are completely irrelevant. For a product meant to monitor brand visibility and positioning, this is a fundamental flaw. On top of that, the dashboard shows little to no useful reporting. Even though my brand appears in Google’s AI overview, Highlighted.ai reports nothing.

In practice, it feels like a half-baked product with no clear use case. For one of my sites, I can see our position in ChatGPT’s AI overviews manually, but the tool remains clueless. At this stage, I’m not confident it’s worth keeping — it simply doesn’t fulfill the purpose it promises.

highlighted ear is really good and we've been using it for a few months right now I think this is one of the must-dole that every people should have. The only downside I feel is that the number of credits whatever is given is not sufficient. That's the only drawback that I would see from this, otherwise this is a great tool.

Since I activated this tool, I have noticed a lack of evolution and almost a faithful reproduction in every LLM.

I have been using this tool to get a handle on how my brands are being seen in various LLMs. This has been a great tool to scoop up data and act upon it.