Sort Lines of Text

Alphabetical sorting compares text character by character, so '10' lands before '2' because '1' comes before '2'. Numeric sorting reads the start of each line as a number, so 2 comes before 10. Turn on 'Numeric sort' whenever your lines are numbers.

By default it does, so 'apple' and 'Apple' group together as if identical. Turn on 'Case sensitive' to treat uppercase and lowercase as distinct. The comparison is locale-aware, so accented and mixed-case text sorts in a natural order.

Yes. Choose Descending to sort Z to A, or from highest to lowest number when numeric sort is on. The direction applies on top of whichever sort mode you have selected.

Yes. Tick 'Remove duplicates' and repeated lines are dropped after sorting, leaving one of each. With case sensitivity off, 'Apple' and 'apple' count as the same line and only the first is kept; with it on, they are treated as different.

It reads the leading number of each line, so '42 apples' sorts as 42. Lines with no leading number, like 'apple', are moved to the end of the list in their original relative order rather than being dropped.

Windows CRLF, classic Mac CR, and Unix LF endings are all recognized. A single trailing newline at the very end is ignored so it does not turn into a stray empty line in the output.

There is no fixed cap. Sorting happens in your browser, so the practical limit is your device memory, and lists of thousands of lines sort effectively instantly.

No. Sorting only reorders and optionally de-duplicates whole lines. The text within each line, including its spaces and punctuation, is left exactly as you pasted it.

Yes. Sorting runs entirely in your browser and nothing is uploaded to a server, so even long or sensitive lists never leave your device.