What it does
Paste a list, one item per line, and get it back in the order you want. Sorting, de-duplicating and tidying happen together, so a messy export becomes a clean list in one step — and the line under the panes tells you exactly what was removed, rather than leaving you to wonder why the count changed.
The orders
- A → Z and Z → A — alphabetical, using your browser’s language rules, so accented characters sort where a reader expects rather than after z.
- Shortest first and Longest first — by character count, with alphabetical order as the tie-breaker. Handy for spotting the outliers in a list of headlines or slugs.
- Flip — keeps the list in the order you pasted it and turns it back to front. Not the same as Z → A, which sorts.
- Random — a Fisher–Yates shuffle, so every arrangement is equally likely. Press it again for a different one; typing in the list does not reshuffle what is already there.
The result appears beside your list rather than under it, so you can see what changed. Use as list moves the result back into the box, which is how you run one pass after another — sort, then de-duplicate, then shuffle.
Numbers sort correctly
Plain alphabetical sorting puts item10 before item2, because it compares character by character and 1 comes before 2. Numbers in order is on by default and compares digit sequences as numbers instead: item2, then item10. That is almost always what you meant, and it is a checkbox rather than hidden behaviour so you can turn it off when you want a strict character sort.
The tidying options
- Match case — off by default, so apple and Apple sort together and count as the same line. Turn it on and they are treated as different.
- Drop blank lines — removes empty lines rather than clustering them at one end.
- Trim spaces — strips leading and trailing whitespace, which is the usual reason two identical-looking lines refuse to sort together.
- Remove duplicates — keeps the first of each repeated line. For more control over de-duplication, including seeing only the duplicates, use Remove Duplicate Lines.
Common questions
Is my list uploaded?
No. Sorting happens in this page, which matters for lists of email addresses or customer names.
How large a list can it sort?
Tens of thousands of lines without trouble. Much beyond that and the browser tab may pause briefly while it works.
Can I sort by the second word or a column?
Not directly — it sorts whole lines from the start. For column data, put the column you want to sort by first.
