Remove Duplicate Lines

Paste text and instantly remove duplicate lines, with options for case sensitivity.

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Common Use Cases

Deduplicate an email list merged from multiple CRM exports
Remove repeated error messages from a server log before analysis
Clean a keyword list by removing duplicates before uploading to Google Ads
Extract unique domain names from a long list of URLs

About Remove Duplicate Lines

Duplicate lines are a common data-quality problem that crops up when merging lists from different sources, processing log files, working with CSV exports, or building keyword lists for SEO and advertising campaigns. A list of 500 email addresses exported from two different systems might contain 80 duplicates. A server log might repeat the same error line thousands of times. An SEO keyword spreadsheet built from multiple tools often contains near-identical rows.

Manually scrolling and deleting duplicates is error-prone and tedious. This tool removes them instantly: paste your text, click a button, and get back only the unique lines. Options let you control whether the comparison is case-sensitive ("Apple" and "apple" as the same or different?), whether to trim whitespace before comparing (so " hello " and "hello" are treated as the same line), and whether to preserve the original order or sort the unique lines alphabetically.

The tool is useful far beyond simple word lists. Developers use it to deduplicate log output before analysis. Database administrators use it to find unique values in a text column before importing. Writers use it to tidy up citation lists. Advertisers use it to clean negative keyword lists for Google Ads and Microsoft Advertising campaigns.

The operation runs entirely in your browser, with no upload and no server call. Even very large text files (tens of thousands of lines) process in milliseconds.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does the tool preserve the original order of lines?
Yes, by default. The first occurrence of each line is kept, and subsequent duplicates are removed while maintaining the original sequence. An optional 'Sort output' toggle reorders the unique lines alphabetically.
How does case sensitivity work?
With case-sensitive mode on (the default), 'Apple' and 'apple' are treated as different lines and both are kept. With case-sensitive mode off, they are treated as duplicates and only the first occurrence is kept. The case of the kept line is preserved as-is.
What counts as a duplicate if there is trailing whitespace?
With the 'Trim whitespace' option enabled, leading and trailing spaces are stripped before comparison, so ' hello ' and 'hello' count as duplicates. With it disabled, they are treated as different lines. This option is off by default.
Is there a limit to how many lines I can process?
There is no hard limit. The tool runs in your browser using JavaScript, so practical limits depend on your device's memory. Most modern browsers can handle hundreds of thousands of lines without issues.