Free online text sort tool. Supports alphabetical, numerical, natural, by-length sorting and more.
TL;DR: Free text sort tool supporting ascending, descending, by length, natural sort, and shuffle with customizable rules, runs locally in your browser.
For local tools, open DevTools → Network and search your input — it should not appear in requests.
Usage Guide
Sorting config lists alphabetically, ordering IDs numerically, ranking items by string length — native editor features either cannot do this or make it awkward. This tool offers five sort modes with each line treated as one record, all local.
1. How to use
- Paste text into the input area with one item per line.
- Select a mode: alphabetical asc/desc, string length, natural sort (filename/version friendly), or shuffle.
- Copy the sorted output to where you need it.
2. Which mode fits which scenario
- Alphabetical works for config keys, word lists, CSS property names.
- Natural sort handles file1, file2, file10 correctly — plain alphabetical puts file10 before file2.
- Length sort suits "process short items first" scenarios: prioritizing test cases, triaging a to-do list.
- Shuffle fits random draws, A/B testing, card shuffling — but it is not cryptographically secure.
3. Why natural sort matters
Filenames, version numbers and log line numbers mix letters and digits. Plain alphabetical ordering puts "10" before "2" because "1" < "2" character by character. Natural sort recognizes consecutive digits as numbers first, producing human-intuitive order. This is not cosmetic — a deploy script sorting versions incorrectly will roll back to the wrong release. Normalize line endings ( to ) before sorting too; mixed endings cause unstable comparisons.
4. Stability and multi-key sorting
A stable sort keeps equal-key rows in original order — sort by the secondary key first, then by the primary key, and you get multi-level sorting, provided the algorithm is stable. When a spreadsheet custom sort cannot express this, concatenate columns into a composite key (like dept-id) and sort once: equivalent and reproducible.
5. Scale and performance bounds
Sorting tens of thousands of lines in the browser is millisecond work; rendering is the real bottleneck — dedupe before sorting to cut the load on huge pastes. Mind the mixed-type trap: 10 before 9 is string order, check the numeric-aware mode; version numbers (1.10 vs 1.9) need natural sort for the same reason.
FAQ
Go ahead — sorting, deduping, and shuffling all happen inside the page, and nothing from your logs is collected or uploaded. When you pass the results on, just mind the clipboard, downloaded files, and screen sharing.
Ascending, descending, sort by length, natural sort, random shuffle, and reverse, plus an optional dedupe toggle — one pass tidies up a list or log.
Natural sort compares embedded numbers by value — item2 comes before item10, while plain lexicographic order flips them. Make sure natural sort is on for version numbers and numbered file names. Language collation is yet another rule set from numeric ordering, so double-check the options when sorting localized text.
Yes — options cover case sensitivity, whitespace trimming, and numeric versus alphabetic ordering. Empty lines and case are the two most-missed surprises; confirm the output on a minimal sample before running a batch.
Very large input can make the tab stutter. Validate your options on a trimmed sample first, then run the full text; avoid stacking repeated clicks mid-run, and keep a master copy of the original for rollback and comparison.
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