Free Text Utilities: Count, Compare & Clean Up Lists
Count words and characters, remove repeated lines, sort lists and compare text. Choose a cleanup order that preserves the information you need.
Word Counter
Count words, characters, sentences, and paragraphs in your text
Character Counter
Count visible characters, Unicode code points, UTF-16 units and UTF-8 bytes.
Remove Duplicate Lines
Remove duplicate lines from text
Sort Lines
Sort text lines in ascending or descending order using your language’s collation.
Remove Line Breaks
Remove or replace line breaks from text instantly. Paste text from PDFs, emails or documents and clean it up.
Case Converter
Convert text between different case formats instantly
List Format Converter
Convert a column of items to comma-separated list, SQL IN clause, JSON array, and more formats online
Diff Checker
Compare two texts and highlight the differences
Word Frequency Counter
Analyze word frequency in any text — see which words appear most often with counts and percentages
How to choose and use these tools
- Inspect the original text before removing whitespace or line breaks. Line boundaries may represent records that need to stay separate.
- For lists, normalize whitespace and case only when those differences do not matter, remove duplicate lines, then sort.
- Convert the cleaned list to its destination format and compare it with the original. Count characters again before pasting into a limited field.
Worked example
A list containing apple, banana and apple on separate lines becomes apple and banana after removing duplicates. Apple and apple may remain distinct when matching is case-sensitive; decide before changing capitalization.
Frequently asked questions
Should I remove duplicates before or after changing case?
If capitalization is meaningful, preserve it and compare exact lines. If it is not, normalize case before deduplicating. Keep a copy of the original because normalization can discard information.
Are words and characters counted the same way everywhere?
No. Word boundaries, emoji, combined accents and line endings can be counted differently by platforms. Use the counter as a drafting aid and check the destination field for its actual limit.