List tools
Compare, merge and tidy lists — one item per line.
10 tools
Tools
List Cleaner
Trim, dedupe, sort and normalize a list in one step.
Compare Two Lists
Compare two lists and find what’s shared and what’s different.
Find Common Items
Find the items that appear in both lists.
Only in List A
Items in List A that are missing from List B.
Only in List B
Items in List B that are missing from List A.
Unique Items
Show only the items that appear exactly once in a list.
Find Duplicates
List the lines that appear more than once, with counts.
Find Differences
List the items that appear in only one of two lists.
Merge Lists
Combine two lists into one, with duplicates removed if you like.
Pick Random Lines
Choose one or more random items from a list — for giveaways, raffles or sampling.
One item per line
Every list tool treats each line as one item. If your list is comma-separated, run Remove Commas in “Split into lines” mode first; to turn a list back into a comma-separated line, use Add Commas.
Fast with big lists
Comparisons use hash lookups, so even lists with hundreds of thousands of lines are compared in a fraction of a second, without freezing the page.
Helpful guides
How-to
How to Compare Two Lists
Compare two lists to find items in both, items missing from one, and everything that differs. Online, in Excel and Google Sheets, and on the command line.
How-to
How to Remove Duplicate Lines
Remove duplicate lines from a list or text file in seconds — online with TextVix, in Excel, in Google Sheets, or on the command line.
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Questions about list tools
Does matching ignore upper and lower case?
By default, yes — “Apple” and “apple” are treated as the same item. Turn on “Case-sensitive” to tell them apart.
Does the order of items matter?
No. Lists are compared as sets, and results keep the order in which items first appear.