Text Sorter

A text sorter that orders lines A→Z, Z→A, by length, or in natural numeric order — so file2 sorts before file10 — with stable, case-insensitive sorting by default.

Paste your list here, pick an order, and it's sorted — alphabetically, by length, or in natural numeric order. Sorting a list sounds trivial until you actually need it done: names for an invitation list, product codes for a catalogue, keywords for an SEO sheet, package names in a config file that a linter insists must be alphabetical. Spreadsheets can sort, but pasting a list into a column, sorting, and copying it back out is five steps for a one-step job.

Beyond the obvious A-to-Z and Z-to-A, two orders earn their place. Natural sort handles numbers inside text the way humans expect: plain alphabetical sorting puts item10 before item2 (because "1" < "2" character-wise), while natural sort reads the digits as numbers and orders item2, item10, item100 correctly — indispensable for file names, version numbers and SKU lists. Length sorting, shortest or longest first, is the quiet favourite of copywriters arranging headline options and developers ordering CSS class names or import lines.

Case-insensitive mode (on by default) prevents the classic surprise where all capitalised words sort before every lowercase word — with it on, "apple" and "Banana" order as a human would file them. The sort is stable: equal lines keep their original relative order. Everything runs locally in your browser, and the result is one click from your clipboard or a downloadable text file. Pair it with the duplicate-line remover before sorting for clean, deduplicated, ordered lists in seconds.