Online Text Sorter (Alphabetize, Reverse, Shuffle)

Paste your list with one item per line, then choose Alphabetical. Pick Ascending for A to Z or Descending for Z to A. The sorted list appears instantly in the right-hand box, ready to copy or download.

Alphabetical sorting compares text one character at a time, so “Item 10” lands before “Item 2” because “1” comes before “2.” Natural sorting reads the numbers inside text as whole values, so you get Item 1, Item 2, Item 10. Use natural sort for file names, chapter lists, version numbers and anything else with numbers mixed into words.

Numeric finds the first number in each line and sorts by its value, from low to high or high to low. It understands negatives, decimals and thousands separators, so “1,250.5” is read as 1250.5. Lines without a number are moved to the end, in alphabetical order.

Yes. Length sorts by the number of characters in each line, and Word count sorts by the number of words. Both work shortest-first or longest-first. Lines of the same length or word count are ordered alphabetically, so the results stay predictable.

Yes. Open Lists, columns and separators and set Items are separated by to Commas. The tool splits the list, sorts each item and joins them back with commas. You can also split on semicolons, tabs, pipes, spaces or a custom separator. To turn a comma list into one item per line, set Output as to One item per line.

Yes. Under Lists, columns and separators, set Sort by to A column, enter the column number and choose how columns are separated. For example, to sort “Jane Smith” and “Tom Adams” by last name, sort by column 2 split by spaces. This also works for simple CSV and tab-separated data. The whole line is kept intact; only the chosen column decides the order.

Alphabetical, Descending sorts your lines from Z to A. Reverse doesn’t sort at all. It flips your lines exactly as they are, so the last line becomes the first. Reverse is handy for logs, timelines and lists already in order that you want upside down.

Ignore case is on by default, so “Apple” and “apple” are treated as the same word. Turn it off to separate them. Uppercase then comes before lowercase when two words are otherwise identical, while the letters stay in normal dictionary order. Ignore case also controls whether “Apple” and “apple” count as duplicates.

Turn on Remove duplicates. The tool keeps the first copy of each line and removes the rest before sorting, then shows how many it removed. If you only need to remove duplicates without changing the order, use our duplicate line remover.

It sorts titles the way libraries and music stores do. With this option on, “The Beatles” is filed under B and “A Tale of Two Cities” under T. The words stay in your output; they’re just skipped when deciding the order.

Remove blank lines deletes empty lines and lines that contain only spaces. Trim spaces removes leading and trailing spaces from each line in the output. Both are on by default. Extra spaces never affect the sort order, so an indented line sorts the same as one without indentation.

Yes. The shuffle uses your browser’s cryptographic random number generator with the Fisher–Yates method, so every possible order is equally likely. Click Shuffle again for a new order. It works well for randomizing quiz questions, raffle entries, playlists and team lists.

Yes. Sorting follows your browser’s language rules, so accented letters like é and ñ sort next to their plain versions instead of being pushed to the end of the list.

You can upload plain text files up to 25 MB. Lists with tens of thousands of lines sort almost instantly on most devices. Very large inputs may take a moment longer on older phones.

Yes. The text sorter runs entirely in your browser. Your text and files are never uploaded, stored or shared, and the tool keeps working even if you go offline after the page loads.