Sort any list alphabetically, by length, or randomly. Remove duplicates and empty lines with a single click.
The sorter treats each line as a separate list item. Paste any list — names, URLs, email addresses, keywords, product names — one per line and sort or clean it instantly.
The Remove Duplicates option is case-insensitive by default, so 'Apple', 'apple', and 'APPLE' are treated as duplicates. Use it to clean up email subscriber lists, keyword lists, or any dataset that may have repeated entries.
Paste a list of entrant names and click Randomise to shuffle them. The result is randomly ordered and ready for a fair selection.
Sorting by length (shortest first) is useful for creating navigation menus, button labels, or tag clouds where you want to see the most concise items first.
Paste any list (one item per line) and sort it alphabetically, by length, or shuffle it randomly. Remove duplicates and empty lines in one click.
Unsorted: Banana, Apple, Cherry, Avocado
A to Z: Apple, Avocado, Banana, Cherry
List with duplicates: apple, APPLE, orange, apple
After Remove Duplicates: apple, orange
Mixed-length items sorted by length
Shortest first: Cat, Bird, Tiger, Elephant
Preparing a clean keyword list for SEO
A clean, deduplicated, alphabetically sorted keyword list
Sorting algorithms are one of the foundational topics in computer science. Bubble sort, selection sort, insertion sort, merge sort, quicksort, and heapsort are all standard algorithms. Modern JavaScript's Array.prototype.sort() uses TimSort — a hybrid algorithm derived from merge sort and insertion sort, originally developed for Python in 2002 by Tim Peters. It is particularly efficient on real-world data that often contains already-sorted subsequences.
Two lines are normally duplicates when their text matches according to the selected cleaning or comparison rules. Capitalisation, leading spaces, trailing spaces, punctuation, and internal whitespace may affect whether items are treated as the same. Review the output when entries differ only by formatting but represent separate records.
Yes, sorting creates a predictable order that makes lists easier to scan and compare. Decide whether case, numbers, accents, and punctuation should be significant before sorting. Alphabetical order is not always the right choice for a process, priority list, or numbered instructions, so keep the original order if sequence has meaning.
Sorting and removing duplicates are different operations. A sort should retain each item, while deduplication intentionally removes repeated items according to the selected rules. Save the original list before cleaning, especially if blank lines, comments, IDs, or repeated entries could be meaningful to the system you will paste into.
Review entries that differ by capitalisation, punctuation, spacing, or identifiers before accepting their removal. Compare the cleaned count with the original and preserve the source so an omitted record can be restored. If each line represents a database record, deduplicate using a stable ID rather than display text alone.