Text Line Sorter

The Text Sorter takes any block of text — a list of names, product SKUs, CSV-style rows, log lines, or raw notes — and reorders it alphabetically, numerically, by length, or in reverse, instantly and without touching a spreadsheet. Paste your list into the box, choose a sort mode (A to Z, Z to A, shortest to longest, numeric ascending or descending), and the tool rewrites the lines in the new order while preserving the original content of each line exactly as typed. Writers, students, developers, data-entry clerks, and small business owners use this tool constantly for tasks that would otherwise mean opening Excel or Google Sheets for a thirty-second job. Common use cases include alphabetising a bibliography or works-cited list, sorting a class roster, tidying a bullet-point outline before publishing, ordering environment variable names in a config file, sorting API response fields for a changelog, or arranging a shopping list by category prefix. Because the sort works line by line, it handles anything you can paste as plain text, including tab-separated or comma-separated values, as long as each record sits on its own line. A few practical tips make the results more predictable. If your list mixes numbers and letters and you want true numeric ordering (so 9 comes before 10), pick numeric sort rather than default alphabetical sort — a plain alphabetical pass will sort "10" before "9" because it compares character by character. If you need to remove duplicate lines before sorting, run your text through the Duplicate Line Remover first, or through the Text Deduplicator, then paste the cleaned list here. Case sensitivity matters too: most users expect "Apple" and "apple" to sit next to each other, so a case-insensitive sort is usually the better default for names and general text, while a case-sensitive sort is more appropriate for sorting code identifiers or exact-match data. The Text Sorter pairs naturally with other line-based tools on this site. Use the Line Counter to confirm you have the number of rows you expect, the Whitespace Remover or Trim Text tool to clean stray spaces before sorting (since leading whitespace can throw off alphabetical order), and the Case Converter if you want consistent capitalisation before or after sorting. Together these small utilities replace a surprising number of spreadsheet round-trips for anyone who regularly manipulates lists of text. As with every tool on this site, sorting happens entirely inside your browser using JavaScript running on your own device. Your list is never uploaded to a server, logged, or stored anywhere — you can paste sensitive internal data, unpublished manuscripts, or client lists with confidence, and everything disappears the moment you close or refresh the tab.