Sort any list of lines alphabetically, numerically, or by length, with natural number ordering built in, instantly and right in your browser.
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A text sorter takes a block of text, treats each line as one item, and reorders those lines according to a rule you pick, instead of you dragging lines around by hand. Paste in a list of names, keywords, prices, or file names, choose how you want it ordered, and the tool rebuilds the list in that order while leaving your original input untouched. It's the same idea as sorting a spreadsheet column, just applied directly to plain text.
Alphabetical sorting arranges lines the way a dictionary or phone book would, A to Z or reversed as Z to A. By default this tool ignores capitalization, so "banana" and "Banana" are treated as the same word for ordering purposes, which is usually what you want for names, tags, or general word lists. Switch to case-sensitive sorting when the distinction matters, such as when comparing variable names or codes where uppercase and lowercase are meaningfully different values, not just a style choice.
Length sorting orders lines by their character count rather than their content, from shortest to longest or the reverse. This is useful for things like reviewing headline or title options from most concise to most detailed, spotting unusually short or long entries in a data export, or simply getting a quick sense of scale across a list before deciding how to trim it. When two lines share the same length, they fall back to alphabetical order between themselves so the result is always the same on repeat runs.
Numeric sorting reads each line as a number and orders lines by that value, ascending or descending, rather than comparing the text character by character. That distinction matters: sorted as text, "9" comes after "42" because "4" is a smaller character than "9", but sorted numerically, 9 correctly comes before 42. If a line in your list isn't a number at all, this tool doesn't error out or scramble the rest of the results; it simply groups every non-numeric line after the numeric ones, ordered alphabetically among themselves, so mixed lists always produce a clean, predictable result.
Sorting is often the first step in cleaning up a messy list, not just a display preference. A keyword list pulled from research notes, a contact list exported from a spreadsheet, or an inventory sheet copied out of another system usually arrives in whatever order it was created, full of stray duplicates and inconsistent spacing. Turn on Remove duplicate lines to drop repeated entries, use Ignore leading/trailing spaces so "widget " and "widget" are recognized as the same item, and use Keep empty lines only when blank rows are meaningful to you, since they're removed by default so a pasted list doesn't come back full of gaps.
A plain character-by-character alphabetical sort has a well-known blind spot with numbers: given "item1", "item2", and "item10", it compares the "1" in "item10" against the "2" in "item2" and decides "item10" belongs first, since "1" is a smaller character than "2". A human reading the same list would expect item1, then item2, then item10, because that's the order the numbers actually count in. This tool's Alphabetical A to Z and Z to A modes use natural sorting, so runs of digits inside a line are compared as whole numbers instead of character by character, and a list like that sorts the way you'd actually expect.
Yes. Choose Alphabetical A to Z to sort lines from the start of the alphabet forward, or Alphabetical Z to A to sort them in reverse. Both modes also sort numbers inside the text naturally, so "item2" comes before "item10" instead of after it.
Yes. Numeric ascending and Numeric descending read each line as a number and sort by its value rather than by character order, so 9 sorts before 42. Lines that are not numbers are grouped after the numeric ones and sorted alphabetically among themselves, so the tool never errors out on mixed lists.
Yes. Length: shortest to longest and Length: longest to shortest sort lines by their character count. Lines of equal length are then ordered alphabetically, so the result stays consistent between runs.
Yes. Turn on the Remove duplicate lines checkbox before sorting and only the first occurrence of each unique line is kept. This respects your case sensitivity and whitespace settings, so "Apple" and "apple" only count as duplicates when case-insensitive matching is on.
No. Sorting only writes to the Result box on the right. The text in the input box stays exactly as you typed it and remains fully editable, unless you click Swap to move the result back into the input yourself.
No. Every sort runs inside your browser using JavaScript. Nothing you type or paste here is uploaded to Brekzy, logged, or saved between visits.
Natural sorting reads the digits inside a line as one number instead of comparing them character by character, so a list containing "item1", "item2", and "item10" sorts in that logical order. A plain alphabetical comparison would incorrectly place "item10" right after "item1" and before "item2", since it compares the character "1" against "2" before ever looking at the rest of the number.
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